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  Taoist Inner Alchemy
Posted by: Paul Ferguson - 04-18-2024, 01:45 PM - Forum: Articles on alchemy - No Replies

https://theenlightenmentjourney.com/inne...h-to-life/

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  Theatrum Chemicum Britannicum
Posted by: Paul Ferguson - 04-17-2024, 01:14 PM - Forum: Alchemy texts - No Replies

"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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  Ambix, Volume 71, Issue 1 (2024)
Posted by: Paul Ferguson - 04-17-2024, 01:07 PM - Forum: Articles on alchemy - No Replies

Latest issue of the leading journal of alchemy:

https://www.tandfonline.com/toc/yamb20/current

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  Podcast: Newton the Alchemist
Posted by: Paul Ferguson - 04-17-2024, 01:04 PM - Forum: Articles on alchemy - No Replies

"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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  Fantasies of Prolongevity in Early Modern Culture
Posted by: Paul Ferguson - 04-17-2024, 09:40 AM - Forum: Reviews and book notices - No Replies

Christopher Martin.

Abstract only.

"By reconsidering various visual and literary representations of prolongevity in early modern Europe, this chapter aims to illustrate the nuanced pushback in the era against “meliorist” beliefs that youth can and should be prolonged as a way of further exploring what I contend is a significantly richer, more integrated cultural sensitivity to later life that informs the period."

https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.100...50917-9_21



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  A Quest for Longevity?
Posted by: Paul Ferguson - 04-17-2024, 09:28 AM - Forum: Articles on alchemy - No Replies

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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  Tour: Czech Haunts and Legends
Posted by: Paul Ferguson - 04-17-2024, 09:20 AM - Forum: News - Meeting - Events - No Replies

"The alchemical history of Prague is a narrative woven into the very fabric of its existence. It is the city’s soul, an invisible thread that links past and present, waiting for the curious to unravel the tapestry of time and secrets."

Embark on a spine-tingling 10-day journey through Prague and the Czech Republic’s haunted realms in 2024 - Czech Haunts and Legends.

https://mysteriousadventurestours.com/th...d-sorcery/

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  The Alchemist and Vanity
Posted by: Paul Ferguson - 04-17-2024, 09:13 AM - Forum: Alchemical symbolism and imagery - No Replies

Flemish School, 17th century.

https://www.mldantiques.com/en/lalchimis...me-siecle/



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  Jagiellonian University Digital Library
Posted by: Paul Ferguson - 04-16-2024, 02:05 PM - Forum: Alchemy texts - No Replies

" 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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  The Celtic Golden Dawn
Posted by: Paul Ferguson - 04-16-2024, 07:18 AM - Forum: Reviews and book notices - No Replies

"The art of alchemy was among the attainments of the ancient Druids and was cultivated by an inner circle of the Druidical Order whom later Welsh documents call by the name of Pheryllt."

Full text:

https://www.academia.edu/35513023/The_Ce...hael_Greer

Once again I have no idea about the copyright status of this book.

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