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  'Ethereal Chemicals': Alchemy and the Romantic Imagination
Posted by: Paul Ferguson - 08-29-2023, 10:50 AM - Forum: Articles on alchemy - No Replies

By Maureen Roberts.

Full text.

https://www.erudit.org/fr/revues/ron/199.../005734ar/

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  WB Yeats and Alchemy
Posted by: Paul Ferguson - 08-29-2023, 10:35 AM - Forum: Reviews and book notices - No Replies

By William Gorski.

At Scribd:

https://www.scribd.com/document/45551748...iam-Gorski




Yeats's Rosa Alchemica here:
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/5794

Romanian translation here:
https://archive.org/details/w-b-yeats-ro...a/mode/2up

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  Pahari painting relating to Mercury
Posted by: Paul Ferguson - 08-29-2023, 08:26 AM - Forum: Alchemical symbolism and imagery - No Replies

In Indian mythology, mercury has a cosmic origin: it derives from the semen of the god Shiva. In this Indian Pahari painting from about 1770, a horse-riding virgin entices mercury out of a well and then over to an outdoor alchemical festival shown at top right.

Credit: Skulpturensammlung und Museum
 für Byzantinische Kunst, Staatliche / Sammlung L. Habighorst, Koblenz

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pahari_painting



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  Alchemical Reference in 'Antony and Cleopatra'
Posted by: Paul Ferguson - 08-27-2023, 04:13 PM - Forum: Articles on alchemy - No Replies

Lyndall Abraham

Abstract
Lepidus: Your serpent of Egypt is bred now of your mud by the operation of your sun: so is your crocodile. (II.vii.26-7) The phrase "the operation of your sun" is a distinctly alchemical term. It refers to the opus alchymicum as a whole and is first known to occur in one of the oldest and most famous alchemical documents, the Emerald Table: "What I have said concerning the operation of the Sun is finished." The Tabula Smaragdina or Emerald Table, ascribed to Hermes Trismegistus or the Egyptian Thoth, was not only one of the most important sources of medieval alchemy, but continued to be considered as the basis of alI alchemical law by alchemists right through to the seventeenth century.


5 pages. Open access.

https://openjournals.library.sydney.edu....e/view/390

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  Stephanus of Alexandria; on the Structure and Date of his Alchemical Work
Posted by: Paul Ferguson - 08-27-2023, 04:05 PM - Forum: Articles on alchemy - No Replies

Open Access. Just click on the pdf button.


Maria K. Papathanassiou Department of Mathematics University of Athens



https://rosa.uniroma1.it/rosa01/medicina.../view/1422

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  Thesis: The life and alchemical teachings of Chen Zhixu
Posted by: Paul Ferguson - 08-27-2023, 03:55 PM - Forum: Articles on alchemy - No Replies

SPREADING THE DAO, MANAGING MASTERSHIP, AND PERFORMING SALVATION: THE LIFE AND ALCHEMICAL TEACHINGS OF CHEN ZHIXU

Wm. Clarke Hudson

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https://www.proquest.com/openview/4021c5...&cbl=18750

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  Understanding Reality: A Taoist Alchemical Classic
Posted by: Paul Ferguson - 08-27-2023, 03:52 PM - Forum: Reviews and book notices - No Replies

By Chang Po-tuan, With a Concise Commentary by Liu I-ming, Translated from the Chinese by Thomas Cleary

On sale:

https://uhpress.hawaii.edu/title/underst...al-classic

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  Verse and Transmutation: A Corpus of Middle English Alchemical Poetry
Posted by: Paul Ferguson - 08-27-2023, 03:49 PM - Forum: Reviews and book notices - Replies (1)

Full text.

Verse and Transmutation: A Corpus of Middle English Alchemical Poetry identifies and investigates a corpus of twenty-one anonymous recipes for the philosophers’ stone dating from the fifteenth century.


https://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/30123

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  The Alchemical Process of Transformation
Posted by: Paul Ferguson - 08-27-2023, 03:46 PM - Forum: Articles on alchemy - No Replies

By Nigel Hamilton.

8 pages.

https://www.ingrid-dengg.at/sites/ingrid...lchemy.pdf

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  The Production of Alchemical Knowledge in the Early Modern Ottoman World
Posted by: Paul Ferguson - 08-27-2023, 03:43 PM - Forum: Articles on alchemy - No Replies

Dissertation by Tuna Artun.


http://arks.princeton.edu/ark:/88435/dsp01xd07gs731

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