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  Thesis: Alchemy in India and China
Posted by: Paul Ferguson - 10-15-2023, 06:52 PM - Forum: Articles on alchemy - No Replies

by Deshpande, Vijaya Jayant

"As the title "Alchemy in India and China" suggests, this thesis deals with some comparative aspects of Indian and Chinese alchemy. However, it should be noted that a comprehensive study of alchemy in these two countries is not the aim of this work."


https://shodhganga.inflibnet.ac.in/handle/10603/94355

https://www.wisdomlib.org/hinduism/essay...-and-china

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  How Alchemy Has Been Depicted in Art Through the Ages
Posted by: Paul Ferguson - 10-15-2023, 06:44 PM - Forum: Alchemical symbolism and imagery - No Replies

Anika Burgess

https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/ho...h-the-ages

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  Alchemical Metaphors and Practices
Posted by: Paul Ferguson - 10-15-2023, 06:37 PM - Forum: Articles on alchemy - No Replies

Another contribution from the Lowens Fellows.

"Gendered and biological metaphors occur frequently in alchemical poems. At first glance, they may appear confusing to twenty-first-century readers, especially compared to dry modern scientific texts. However, they were acceptable and useful for early modern alchemists."


https://omekas.library.uvic.ca/s/lowens/...-practices

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  Reproducing Alchemical Experiments
Posted by: Paul Ferguson - 10-15-2023, 06:31 PM - Forum: Articles on alchemy - No Replies

Michael Bycroft.

"Lawrence Principe visited Warwick Univ. as an International Visiting Fellow on May 7-11, 2018. His visit was supported by the IATL , the Institute for Advanced Study , the Early Modern and Eighteenth Century Centre and the Centre for the Study of the Renaissance . Principe ran a masterclass on alchemy, gave a public lecture on the history of gold-making, and participated in a workshop on the use of historical objects in teaching."

https://warwick.ac.uk/fac/cross_fac/iatl...018-06-28/

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  Video: Henry Nollius' The Chemist's Key, with music
Posted by: Paul Ferguson - 10-14-2023, 06:27 PM - Forum: Alchemy texts - No Replies

The Chemists Key to Shut and Open: As the True Doctrine of the Corruption and Generation in Ten Brief Aphorisms, Illustrated with most plain and faithful Commentaries, out of the Pure Light of Nature: By that Judicious and Industrious Artist Henry Nollius, 1617.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rYtV4Ad4xy0

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  Alchemical symbols in manuscripts of “The Mirror of Wonders”
Posted by: Paul Ferguson - 10-14-2023, 06:22 PM - Forum: Articles on alchemy - No Replies

Juliane Müller

"The Mirror of Wonders” (Mirʾāt al-ʿajāʾib) is an illustrated Arabic treatise about a mysterious mirror that displays different alchemical symbols. This work of unsettled authorship, which was composed between the 12th and 16th centuries, has got a rich manuscript tradition with more than 45 extant copies dating from the 16th to the 20th centuries, including translations into Turkish and Persian and various short versions of the text."


https://www.mediafire.com/file/vaec5d5tf...e.pdf/file

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  The names of herbes in Greke, Latin, Englishe, Duche & Frenche
Posted by: Paul Ferguson - 10-14-2023, 12:46 PM - Forum: Reviews and book notices - No Replies

The names of herbes in Greke, Latin, Englishe, Duche [German] & Frenche wyth the commune names that herbaries and apotecaries vse

William Turner, 1548.

Downloadable copy here:
https://archive.org/details/turnernameso...s/mode/2up

Online transcription here:
https://quod.lib.umich.edu/e/eebo2/A1405...;q1=Botany

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  David Scott: Paracelsus lecturing on the Elixir of Life
Posted by: Paul Ferguson - 10-13-2023, 04:59 PM - Forum: Alchemical symbolism and imagery - No Replies

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Scott_(painter)



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  Sketches of early Scottish alchemists
Posted by: Paul Ferguson - 10-13-2023, 04:52 PM - Forum: Reviews and book notices - No Replies

By George Small

https://archive.org/details/b29008128

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  Post-Reformation Digital Library
Posted by: Paul Ferguson - 10-13-2023, 04:34 PM - Forum: Alchemy texts - No Replies

The Post-Reformation Digital Library (PRDL) is a select database of digital books relating to the development of theology and philosophy during the Reformation and Post-Reformation/Early Modern Era (late 15th-18th c.). Late medieval and patristic works printed and referenced in the early modern era are also included. The PRDL is a project of the Junius Institute for Digital Reformation Research.

https://www.prdl.org/index.php

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