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  Fiction: The Alchemist's Door
Posted by: Paul Ferguson - 10-02-2023, 07:03 PM - Forum: Reviews and book notices - No Replies

Lisa Goldstein

"Scientist, mathematician, and court astrologer to Queen Elizabeth I, John Dee is also one of the sixteenth-century's most renowned alchemists, driven by a passion to fathom the elemental secrets of the cosmos. But when his reckless assistant, Edward Kelley, succeeds in using a crystal sphere to summon angels, Dee is catapulted into an awesome struggle that may extinguish the light of reason forever."

https://us.macmillan.com/books/978076530...emistsdoor

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  Lithuanian Mint honours Dr John Dee
Posted by: Paul Ferguson - 10-02-2023, 06:59 PM - Forum: Alchemical symbolism and imagery - Replies (1)

"We present the second coin in ‘The Alchemists’ series – a collectible silver coin called ‘Dr. J. Dee – Ars Speculum’. The coin continues the series dedicated to remembering and honouring the famous and historically significant alchemists who sought ways to turn base metals into gold. The new coin is dedicated to a famous 16th century alchemist, astronomer, mathematician, and advisor to Queen Elizabeth I – Dr. John Dee."

https://lithuanian-mint.com/a-silver-coi...-john-dee/

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  Drawings of Queen Elizabeth I’s alchemist John Dee reworked
Posted by: Paul Ferguson - 10-02-2023, 06:56 PM - Forum: Alchemical symbolism and imagery - No Replies

"Anneké Pettican and the Brass Art collective reworked the drawings of Queen Elizabeth I’s alchemist and magician John Dee.

AN INTRIGUING study of hands and gestures by Elizabethan alchemist John Dee have been brought to life in an exhibition [in 2017] featuring works of art by an award-winning artist from the University of Huddersfield.

Anneké Pettican from the University’s School of Art, Design and Architecture is one of three members of the art collective Brass Art and their exhibition entitled Gestured, is a collection of sculptures and video works inspired by alchemy, transformation and symbolic gesture found in the famous alchemist’s book."



https://www.hud.ac.uk/news/2017/november...mslibrary/

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  The foundations of Newton's alchemy
Posted by: Paul Ferguson - 10-02-2023, 06:18 PM - Forum: Articles on alchemy - No Replies

...or, "The hunting of the greene lyon"

Betty Jo Teeter Dobbs

Contents: List of plates Preface 1. 'The Hunting of the Greene Lyon' 2. Conceptual Background for Seventeenth-Century Alchemy 3. Seventeenth-Century Alchemy 4. Chemistry and Alchemy at Cambridge 5. Newton's Earliest Alchemy: 1668-75 6. Newton's Integration of Alchemy and Mechanism Epilogue Appendices Selected Bibliographies Index.


https://oa.mg/work/1570968926

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  From Nazari's "Il metamorfosi metallico et humano"
Posted by: Paul Ferguson - 10-01-2023, 11:41 PM - Forum: Alchemical symbolism and imagery - No Replies

Posits parallels between the alchemical process and human generation.

   

   

   


Copy for sale here:
https://www.rookebooks.com/1564-il-metam...lchemy-1st

Downloadable copy here:
https://www.digitale-sammlungen.de/en/vi...863?page=5

Also see:
http://www.levity.com/alchemy/nazari_i.html

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  Alchemical Discourse in Romantic Philosophy & Literature
Posted by: Paul Ferguson - 10-01-2023, 09:14 PM - Forum: Articles on alchemy - No Replies

Elizabeth Olsen Brocious
Brigham Young University


"Alchemical imagery and ideology is present in many Romantic works of literature, but it has largely been overlooked by literary historians in their
contextualization of the time period. The same can be said for mysticism in general, of which alchemy is a subset. This project accounts for alchemy in the works of
transcendental philosophers and writers as it contributes to some of the most important conversations of the Romantic time period, particularly the reaction against empirical philosophy and the articulation of creative processes."

https://scholarsarchive.byu.edu/cgi/view...ontext=etd

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  Alchemy and Exegesis from Antioch to Constantinople,
Posted by: Paul Ferguson - 10-01-2023, 09:07 PM - Forum: Articles on alchemy - No Replies

Alexandre Mattos Roberts

"This dissertation examines how scholars in eleventh-century Constantinople and Antioch (under Byzantine rule, 969-1084) understood matter and its transformation. It argues that matter, a concept inherited from ancient philosophy, continued to be a fertile and malleable idea-complex endowed with cultural and religious meaning in medieval thought-worlds of the Eastern Mediterranean."


https://escholarship.org/content/qt3n31m...38a812.pdf

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  Chymistry and Crucibles in the Renaissance Laboratory
Posted by: Paul Ferguson - 10-01-2023, 09:04 PM - Forum: Articles on alchemy - No Replies

Marcos Martinon-Torres

https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/14...592114.pdf

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  Alchemy, Cornucopianism, and Agricultural Improvement in 17th C. England
Posted by: Paul Ferguson - 10-01-2023, 08:56 PM - Forum: Articles on alchemy - No Replies

Niermeier-Dohoney, Justin Robert

"This dissertation investigates the influence of vitalist matter theories and the practical, operational techniques of alchemy on agricultural improvement projects in seventeenth-century England. It argues that the historical territory of alchemy is much broader than many historians of this subject have conceded over the past generation."


https://knowledge.uchicago.edu/record/1409?ln=en

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  Agrippa and the Occult in Renaissance Drama
Posted by: Paul Ferguson - 10-01-2023, 08:47 PM - Forum: Articles on alchemy - No Replies

Elaine-Theresa Rosdorff
Calif. State Univ.


https://scholarworks.csun.edu/bitstream/...sequence=1

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