"Acharya Prafulla Chandra Ray's pioneering work, "The History of Hindu Chemistry," systematically documents the evolution of Bharatiya chemistry from the Vedic period through modern times."


https://organiser.org/2024/08/02/249863/...in-bharat/

"Scientists found arsenic sulfide pigments in “The Night Watch,” arguably the artist’s most famous painting...Our research involved examining 17th-century trade records, apothecary pharmacopeias, price lists and contemporary writings on metallurgy,” lead author Nouchka de Keyser, an Operation Night Watch team member, tells Hyperallergic. The researchers also combed through painters’ manuals and alchemical literature, including Danish historian Ole Worm’s Museum Wormianum."

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-new...180984816/

Museum Wormianum here:

https://digital.sciencehistory.org/works/rv042t91s

The Alchemy of Revolution: Gerrard Winstanley's Occultism and Seventeenth-Century English Communism (American University Studies) - Hardcover

Mulder, David

"This pioneering study in the history of revolutionary thought presents a reinterpretation of the development of communism among the lower classes during the English Revolution of the 1640s. The subject of the study is the revolutionary ideology of Gerrard Winstanley, the leader of the Diggers, a group of rural laborers who in 1649 founded a communistic colony and challenged conservative revolutionary leaders like Oliver Cromwell. The main principle of reinterpretation is what the author terms «chronological realism», a method that seeks to analyze Winstanley's ideology on its own terms without reference to modern socialism. Primary among the conclusions of this study is that hermeticism, or the theory of alchemy, formed the basis of what was genuinely revolutionary in Digger ideology."

https://www.abebooks.com/9780820411736/A...411736/plp

Crafting inks for your spells and grimoire writing is a core part of magical practice. Founded on principles of alchemical transformation, ink making is an ancient art, transforming elements of nature into liquids of intense colour for us to employ. Colour allows us our work to vibrate with the powers of nature. This class is for students at all levels and will use foraged and found substances to craft beautiful, lasting and resonant inks for your work.

You will craft:

Forge Lamp Black Ink, Oak Gall Ink, Walnut Black Ink, Mint Ink, Blackberry Ink


https://www.treadwells-london.com/events...gical-inks

18th century collection.

At the John Rylands Library, Manchester.

https://www.digitalcollections.mancheste...AN-00003/1

https://www.pinterest.ca/pin/emblems-fro...341322606/

   

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V41T0KPrGhM

"In this video I do my best to recreate a "Burning Glass" in the style of Joseph Priestley's from 1774. while I do this we talk about the long history of the tool, and finally test the glass by attempting to reproduce some alchemical processes such lenses may have been turned to in the past."

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mz-iKEMWQKE

"The practise of Mary the Prophetess in the Alchymicall Art. Aros the Philosopher had a meeting with Mary the Prophetess the Sister of Moyses, and approaching to her, he paid her respect and said unto her. O Prophetess, I have truly heard many say of you that you whiten the Stone in one day."

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ragqU30wodI

"The salamander is an amphibian of the order Urodela which, as with many real creatures, often has been ascribed fantastic and sometimes occult qualities by pre-modern authors (as in the allegorical descriptions of animals in medieval bestiaries) not possessed by the real organism. The legendary salamander is often depicted as a typical salamander in shape with a lizard-like form, but is usually ascribed an affinity with fire, sometimes specifically elemental fire."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cultural_d...alamanders

"Although alchemy is not frequently referenced in modern discourse, it is a powerful metaphor for the continuous cycles of transformation we undergo in life. We constantly navigate these layers of experience, reflecting alchemical processes even if we don’t always recognize them as such."

https://www.mysticmag.com/psychic-readin...interview/