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Posted by: Paul Ferguson - 04-17-2024, 01:14 PM - Forum: Alchemy texts
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"Theatrum Chemicum Britannicum — compiled and edited by antiquary extraordinaire Elias Ashmole (1617–1692) — is perhaps the seminal volume of English alchemical literature. Most significantly, it brings together a number of hermetic works previously only available in privately held manuscripts, including, as the subtitle has it, “severall poeticall pieces of our famous English philosophers, who have written the hermetique mysteries in their owne ancient language”. Among these famous English philosophers were John Gower, George Ripley, Thomas Norton, and Geoffrey Chaucer — whose alchemically themed “Tale of the Canans Yeoman” is excerpted from The Canterbury Tales."
https://publicdomainreview.org/collectio...-chemicum/
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| Podcast: Newton the Alchemist |
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Posted by: Paul Ferguson - 04-17-2024, 01:04 PM - Forum: Articles on alchemy
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"The short answer to the question, ‘was Newton the last of the magicians?’ is, yes …. And also … no. Newton and alchemy turn out to be ‘a riddle, wrapped in a mystery, inside an enigma.’ We toss a coin and take a heads-and-tails approach. In this podcast we argue that the alchemical experiments he undertook had nothing to do with magic. Newton’s alchemy now looks to historians like good science (although he would have called himself both a natural philosopher and a chymist). It was well conceived and measured and drew on the work of his contemporaries and of many men before him. And Newton was certainly not the last person in Europe to practise alchemy of this kind. Within fifty years of his death it would simply evolve into modern chemistry."
https://shows.acast.com/65ddca6754223200...p-1-newton
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| A Quest for Longevity? |
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Posted by: Paul Ferguson - 04-17-2024, 09:28 AM - Forum: Articles on alchemy
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A New Approach to the Earliest Testimonies of Medieval Alchemy
Matthias Heiduk
"Medieval Europe learned about alchemy through the translation of Arabic treatises into Latin. What sparked the curiosity regarding this new knowledge? Was it perhaps the promise of the life-extending effect of the elixir that inspired its initial reception? Historical research has been unable to answer this obvious question so far. This paper merely takes a few cautious steps on the road towards filling the gaps about early alchemy in the Medieval West."
https://www.academia.edu/36100810/A_Ques...al_Alchemy
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| Jagiellonian University Digital Library |
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Posted by: Paul Ferguson - 04-16-2024, 02:05 PM - Forum: Alchemy texts
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" Three aids are necessary for learning and teaching:
firstly books, secondly books and thirdly books."
Stanisław Konarski
"The main objective of the project is: “Protection and preservation of antique collections of the Jagiellonian Library and development of digital library resources to preserve the cultural heritage of Polish writing being an element of the National Library Resources”. "
Enter alchemia in search-box:
https://jbc.bj.uj.edu.pl/dlibra
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