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Rampling: Reading alchemically - Paul Ferguson - 11-13-2023
"Dozens of early modern treatises claim to offer straightforward instructions on the theory and practice of alchemy, including all the steps necessary to produce the philosophers’ stone and a range of medicinal elixirs. Yet the resulting works often seem to obfuscate more than they explain: omitting vital information, disguising ingredients and practices behind cover names, and describing outcomes that seem, to modern eyes, impossible."
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https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/bjhs-themes/article/reading-alchemically-guides-to-philosophical-practice-in-early-modern-england/D4BB9ECC77207496D0051522F4553ACF