"The follies of science at the court of Rudolph II: 1576-1612"

Henry Carrington Bolton (1843–1903) was an American chemist and bibliographer of science.

"Alchemy, after astrology, probably contributed more directly than any other of the six follies of science towards the advancement of the genuine science associated with it. The zealous searchers for the secrets of transmutation, stimulated by golden hopes, laboring with an industry and perseverance in difficulties worthy of imitation, acquired great skill in manipulation, becoming familiar with solution, crystallization, and sublimation, as a means of purifying solids, with distillation of liquids, and particularly with all operations involving the management of fire. By mixing all known chemicals in divers ways and treating these mixtures in every conceivable manner, though intelligent system was lacking, alchemists obtained hundreds of substances, many of which became indispensable agents in medicine, pharmacy, manufactures and household economy."

Free download:

https://dfg-viewer.de/show/?set%5Bmets%5...%3D1720816

or

https://archive.org/details/folliesscien...6/mode/2up

By Percy Ross.

The book is about Denis Zachaire:

Born in 1510 to a noble and ancient family of Guienne, Zachaire was sent to school at a young age in Bordeaux under the care of a tutor hired by the family. The tutor was obsessed with alchemy and the Magnum Opus, and Zachaire quickly found himself caught up in the hysteria, pouring vast amounts of his parents' money into the mystic crucible. Laboring tirelessly in smoke-filled chambers, Zachaire and his tutor spent over 200 crowns and his parents reduced his allowance. After returning home to mortgage his inheritance, Zachaire took up with a "Philosopher" and later with a monk, both of whom helped him spend whatever gold he had left.
In 1550, Zachaire claimed to transmute base metal into gold.

Although fictional, contemporary reviewers felt the book was based on very solid research.

Free download:

https://archive.org/details/b2492684x/page/n1/mode/2up

By Sean Martin.

Not sure about the copyright status of this.

https://rexresearch1.com/AlchemyArchives...emists.pdf

Can you solve a Graeco-Egyptian Alchemical Riddle?

"The Parisinus Graecus 2327 manuscript is one of the more richly illuminated alchemical manuscripts to have reached the West along with the better known Marcianus codex in Venice, gifted by Cardinal Bessarion to the republic of Venice. Dated with certainty to 1478 on the basis of its colophon, a version of the iconic red and green ouroboros nests within its folia."

https://thyrathen.substack.com/p/can-you...alchemical

Pavel D. LENKOV
Herzen Russian State Pedagogical University, Saint Petersburg, Russia

"We note that although in Taoism, as in religious exoteric practice, the calendar plays an important role, at the same time, the concept of “reversibility of time” also emerged and became established in Taoist esotericism. This concept, which has its roots in the philosophy of “Dao De Jing”, played a key role in Taoist esoteric practices (inner alchemy, nei dan)). In addition, in internal alchemy there was a specific terminology describing the dimensionality of alchemical practices, which actively used the “signs” (trigrams and hexagrams) of the “Yi jing”."

Page 21 of downloadable conference proceedings:

https://iphras.ru/uplfile/orient/asian_p...ok_eng.pdf

Libellus de Alchimia

Ascribed to Albertus Magnus

Translated by: Virginia Heines


https://www.degruyter.com/document/doi/1...46611/html

"Albrecht shows how John Donne incorporated the corporeal images of medieval iconography into Lull's mnemotechnics in order to construct his own texts as another version of ars combinatoria, God's attributes being perceived as a series of ever-changing combinations. She argues that this Donnean phenomenon anticipates modern film practice, particularly montage. This thesis is illustrated by her reading of the sonnet beginning, "Show me deare Christ, thy spouse, so bright and cleare." This difficult poem can now finally be understood, but only when readers take into consideration how Lullian abstractions combine with corporeal images to solve the riddle, its answer revealing Donne's ecumenical frame of mind, far more advanced than supposed."

The Virgin Mary as Alchemical and Lullian Reference in Donne

Roberta Albrecht

https://tinyurl.com/mpz6atm3

"Details of Adelard’s journey to and from the Near East are scarce, although scattered hints can be gleaned from his writings. We do not know where, or to what extent, he mastered Arabic, and the identity of his teachers largely remains a mystery. At one point, he tells us he ended up in the Crusader principality of Antioch, where he experienced a major earthquake that modern science has dated to November 29, 1114, about five years after Adelard first set out on his travels. He would later return home dressed in his adopted green cloak and turban and armed with such treasures as the geometric system of Euclid; detailed tables of the movements of the stars; a manual on the use of the astrolabe, a powerful computing device invented by the Greeks and perfected by the Arabs; and a book of alchemical recipes for tinting glass, dyeing leather, and performing other chemical processes."

https://renovatio.zaytuna.edu/article/is...ve-amnesia

"For centuries, alchemists tirelessly sought to create a transparent material that was at the same time flexible, i.e. the ‘malleable glass’ of ancient times. The intensive work of our forefathers in alchemy was in fact not in vain, because it led to the transmutation, not of base metals into gold, but rather of a secret, hermetic, cryptic and often obscure field of activity into modern chemistry and polymer science, with all its astonishing contemporary success."

https://www.semanticscholar.org/paper/Th...1c76c0ac72

https://www.preprints.org/manuscript/202...nts-151123

Secluded Alchemist - Laboratory Amongst The Leaves (Full)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y68IKONHS_c