"rian Vickers once described John Dee’s Monas Hieroglyphica as “possibly the most obscure work ever written by an Englishman,” asking whether there were even ten references to it in the seventeenth century. This article considers Dee’s reputation as an alchemist, in particular the reception of his Monas Hieroglyphica, in Latin, French, and German texts published in the late sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, and examines two themes: first, discussion of the Monas Hieroglyphica in the context of cabbalistic calculations and Pythagorean symbolic numbers; and second, references to, and appropriations of, the hieroglyphic monad in the context of chemical notation."

https://www.academia.edu/423667/The_Earl...roglyphica

"This essay argues that we should consider perceptions of and associations with alchemical language and practices in academic and artisanal as well as popular culture in the Netherlands in order to gain a better understanding of the supposed transformation of alchemy into chemistry in this region."

https://www.academia.edu/90804776/Critic..._1650_1750

"The view of alchemy as a gift of God is traced from her origin in the Hellenistic world through the Arabic world to Latin Europe. In the course of this history the attitude towards divine intervention changed; Hermes, the leg- endary (semidivine) founder of this science was not yet expected to intervene into the work of an alchemist. Already in the Hellenistic world alchemy be- came donum dei ; the role of God graduated in the later cultures, and persisted surprisingly long in Latin Europe. Here, God was the decisive force presenting only selected people with his gift, the knowledge of alchemy. Crafts based on chemistry and metallurgy developed simultaneously in the same social and re- ligious environment, but they took quite a different position - free access for people to learn all knowledge. Therefore, alchemy and crafts are to be compared also from the point of view of donum dei ."

https://www.academia.edu/65802205/Alchemy_as_donum_dei

"In the introduction to Prelude to Chemistry, Read comments on the intense pictorialism of alchemical writing. Often allegorical, symbolising of substances with animals, and using obvious biblical reference points, to modern eyes the illustrations can appear weird, even offensive. Often colourful, and drawn with extraordinary detail, they also have a subtle beauty and skilled artistry. Images consistently found within alchemical writing are those frequently described as ‘The Figures of Abraham the Jew’, which were drawn by Nicholas Flamel in his Livres des figures hieroglyphiques, examples of which, from several different manuscripts, illustrate this post."

https://university-collections.wp.st-and...strations/

"I argue that some early alchemical compositions display literary ambitions that have been overlooked and downplayed (as implied in Festugière’s phrase) in previous scholarship. Experimentation does not seem restricted to technical operations: these writings are themselves experiments that result in elaborate and inventive compositions. I investigate in detail what this shift to a literary interpretation entails for four
early alchemical works, namely the Letter from Isis to Horus (Chapter I), the Dialogue of the Philosophers and Cleopatra (Chapter II), On the Letter Omega by Zosimus of Panopolis (Chapter III), and Memoirs 10-12 by the same author (Chapter IV). Each chapter starts with
a brief introduction to the work’s dating, transmission, and contents, followed by an analysis of how each writing in question approaches conventional textual forms in both expected and unexpected ways"

The Searched-for Thing: A Literary Approach to Four Early Alchemical Texts

Fabiana Lopes da Silveira
St Anne’s College, University of Oxford
A thesis submitted for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy, Michaelmas 2020

https://ora.ox.ac.uk/objects/uuid:268397...d2514nk715

"Whilst the word ‘hermaphrodite’ is now understood to be a derogatory term, in this blog we use it in reference to classical, medieval and early modern sources. Indeed, as argued by Leah DeVun, in the European Middle Ages the term ‘hermaphrodite’ was not always associated to individuals. Instead, it was often used as an abstract analytical tool through which to explain the very nature of human identity."

https://historycollections.blogs.sas.ac....f-alchemy/

"Latin MS 82 from the John Rylands Library in Manchester is a fascinating, if often overlooked, alchemical miscellany dating to the early seventeenth century. According to an inscription on the top of fol. 2r, the book appears to have once been owned by ‘Jo. Huniades’ –  Janos Banfi-Hunyadi (1576-1646) –  a Hungarian alchemist who lectured in chemistry at Gresham College, London, and was good friends with Arthur Dee, the son of the famed astrologer, John Dee (to whom the book is dedicated)."

https://stephenrgordon.wordpress.com/201...s-library/

"Qandūsī left in his work significant pages in which he reveals part of his inner world as a calligrapher imbued with a deep spirituality. This spirituality is characterized both by references to major concepts of the Sufism of his time (for example, the Muhammadan Reality) and also by alchemical language."

https://www.academia.edu/166258783/_God_...ranslation

"The Alchimiae Tractatus (ms38176) is a bound manuscript containing a collection of notes on alchemy, written on seventy-eight vellum leaves in a variety of hands, which consistently display English secretarial features."

https://university-collections.wp.st-and...h-century/

A publication discussing Alchemy and the philosophies, arts, sciences, and more associated with it.

By Hermit the frog

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