"This is the first volume to take a broad historical sweep of the close relation between medicines and poisons in the Western tradition, and their interconnectedness. They are like two ends of a spectrum, for the same natural material can be medicine or poison, depending on the dose, and poisons can be transformed into medicines, while medicines can turn out to be poisons. The book looks at important moments in the history of the relationship between poisons and medicines in European history, from Roman times, with the Greek physician Galen, through the Renaissance and the maverick physician Paracelsus, to the present, when poisons are actively being turned into beneficial medicines."

Full text:

https://www.academia.edu/89528431/It_All...an_History

"A Renaissance man of many talents, the younger Winthrop was well-versed in alchemy, natural magic, medicine, and early modern industrial technology, and quickly acquired a talent for political maneuvering as well."


https://todayincthistory.com/2023/11/04/...n-america/

"To begin the symposium, Professor Alisha Rankin of Tufts University is discussing female alchemists in the 1500s."

"This talk examines the connection of women to distillation in early modern Europe and the perceived divide between distilling medicines (viewed as women’s domain) and alchemy (viewed as a male activity)."


https://blogs.uoregon.edu/hwssymposium/2...rn-europe/


https://cas.uoregon.edu/news/history-sym...en-science

"The mystery behind why the world’s first high explosive, fulminating gold, produces a purple smoke when it detonates has been solved, finally resolving a 400-year-old alchemical puzzle."


https://www.chemistryworld.com/news/secr...42.article

"I have an aunt who enjoys a great reputation for her skill in the occult sciences, especially in alchemy. She is a woman of wit, very rich, and sole mistress of her fortune; in short, knowing her will do you no harm. She longs to see you, for she pretends to know you, and says that you are not what you seem. She has entreated me to take you to dine with her, and I hope you will accept the invitation. Her name is the Marchioness d’Urfé."

(Casanova’s Memoirs, The Eternal Quest, Chapter III)


https://www.casanovashadows.com/the-marquise-durfe/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeanne_Cam...carr%C3%A9

Alchemy, image and text: the waning of alchemy and the decline of visual discourse in the late Renaissance

Adrian Holme, University of the Arts London.

From its obscure origins in antiquity the alchemical tradition enjoyed a late flowering in seventeenth-century Europe with the appointment of alchemists at
European Courts and a profusion of alchemical publication within the rapidlyexpanding output of printed books. . Alchemical literature employed a balance of text
and image, in which visual argument, using analogy, resemblance, emblem and allegory, complemented text... The question of why this system gave way, in the
late seventeenth century and ensuing Enlightenment to modern scientific and other serious discourse, progressively stripped of images, is discussed with
reference to the writings of Francis Bacon, Edmund Burke, Ernst Gombrich, WJT Mitchell and Marshall McLuhan. 

Full text:

www.researchgate.net/publication/273525832_Alchemy_image_and_text_The_waning_of_alchemy_and_the_decline_of_visual_discourse_in_the_late_Renaissance

Martha Keith Schuchard writes: "Determined to collaborate with [the medical doctor and alchemist] Dr. Levison, Nordensjköld traveled to London in 1779, where he moved into the Jew’s residence in Soho Square (nearby Rainsford’s home in the square). In December Nordensjköld and Levison began printing A Plain System of Alchymy, which combined Swedenborgian metaphysics with practical chemistry. They interrupted the printing when they decided to travel to Stockholm in order to solicit the sponsorship of Gustav III for their alchemical endeavors.”

https://bq.blakearchive.org/26.2.schuchard

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/August_Nordenski%C3%B6ld

https://www.alchemywebsite.com/spiritual_stone.html



Only the first 16 pages were printed. Available as a pdf from the link below - click on 'Klicka här för att ladda ner filen'

https://weburn.kb.se/eod_best/metadata/0...rjd05z.htm

"If the paramount project of W.B. Yeats’ professional life was the perfection of the art of poetry, it was intertwined with a personal preoccupation, the study and practice of magic—not in any metaphorical sense, but the dedicated pursuit of supernatural powers based upon the ancient traditions of alchemy and necromancy, which began in his youth and persisted to the end of his long life."

https://www.laphamsquarterly.org/magic-s...eats-magus

"Prior to the founding of the Inner Order behind the Golden Dawn, Theurgy had never before been the primary focus of the Rosicrucian spiritual tradition, but rather Alchemy instead. Indeed, the Rosicrucian tradition itself grew out of the Alchemical tradition. The true place of Theurgy within the Rosicrucian tradition has always been as a complementary discipline to Alchemy."


https://augustorderofthemysticrose.org/f...and_gd.pdf

"The Alchemical Arts brought down to earth"

Joseph Lisiewski.

Full text/Open source.

https://archive.org/details/grimoire_201...h/mode/2up