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Jung's personal collection of alchemy books has now been digitised and put online

http://www.e-rara.ch/alch/nav/classification/1133851

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Excellent quality of digitization.

Thanks Adam!

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That reminds me - has anyone done a decent dismantling of Jung's views on alchemy?

I've got Principe and Newman's essay in "Secrets of Nature", but would have thought someone else might have had a go somewhere else.

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Alexander Guthrie Stewart wrote:
That reminds me - has anyone done a decent dismantling of Jung's views on alchemy?

I've got Principe and Newman's essay in "Secrets of Nature", but would have thought someone else might have had a go somewhere else.

If you can read Spanish, Guerrero has:

http://www.revistaazogue.com/jung.htm

I am hoping to translate this into English for Adam's paperback series but the author seems to be still working on an updated version.

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Unfortunately not, but any english translation welcome.

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Do you think this is a continuing project, as the text talks about "over two hundred early printed books on alchemy", but this url only has 97.

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Alan Pritchard wrote:
Do you think this is a continuing project, as the text talks about "over two hundred early printed books on alchemy", but this url only has 97.

Yes, there's a 'latest additions' page so there's lots more to come I'm sure:

http://www.e-rara.ch/alch/nav/history

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Alexander Guthrie Stewart wrote:
That reminds me - has anyone done a decent dismantling of Jung's views on alchemy?

I've got Principe and Newman's essay in "Secrets of Nature", but would have thought someone else might have had a go somewhere else.

There is an interesting critique of Principe and Newman's perspective from a humanities point of view, in

George-Florin Calian
Alkimia Operativa and Alkimia Speculativa - Some Modern Controversies on the Historiography of Alchemy

in ANNUAL OF MEDIEVAL STUDIES AT CEU. VOL. 16, 2010.

http://www.archive.org/download/AlkimiaOperativaAndAlkimiaSpeculativa.SomeModernControversiesOnThe/FlorinGeorgeCalian-AlkimiaOperativaAndAlkimiaSpeculativa.SomeModernControversiesOnTheHistoriographyOfAlchemy.pdf

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thank you for that - but perhaps this link works better?:

http://www.archive.org/stream/AlkimiaOperativaAndAlkimiaSpeculativa.SomeModernControversiesOnThe/FlorinGeorgeCalian-AlkimiaOperativaAndAlkimiaSpeculativa.SomeModernControversiesOnTheHistoriographyOfAlchemy_djvu.txt

The only other thing is it's probably in copyright, so I don't quite know whether archive.org should have it available.

It appears to be available courtesy of the author here:

http://ceu.academia.edu/FlorinGeorgeCalian/Papers/193940/Alkimia_Operativa_and_Alkimia_Speculativa._Some_Modern_Controversies_on_the_Historiography_of_Alchemy

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A reply from

"Thank you for your interest in the alchemy collection. The digitization of these materials is being realized by the ETH-Bibliothek in cooperation with the Foundation of the Works of C.G.Jung. It is a work in progress, as the “new entries” on http://www.e-rara.ch/alch/nav/history show. An estimated total of 300 titles will be reached in Summer 2012"