"This article explores Sophia's role in alchemical symbolism, the feminine principle in the Great Work, the parallels between her myth and the alchemical process, and how to work with Sophia as the alchemical goddess of transformation."

https://mysticryst.com/eo/blogs/the-myst...-principle

Neda Jamal

"This primer aims to provide a concise resource for understanding and translating botanical Latin, particularly in the context of naming new plant taxa."


https://www.academia.edu/40091099/A_Prim...Vocabulary

Fleshly Wisdoms: Image Practices, Bodies, and the Transmission of Knowledge in a Sixteenth-Century Alchemical Miscellany

By Alexandra Marraccini

"This article explores the composition of Glasgow MS Ferguson 6, a sixteenth-century alchemical miscellany that combines almost every known image cycle in the related period corpus. Some of the manuscript's illuminations draw directly from print sources, but edit their content to create more affect for the reader. Others rework existing manuscript sources, culminating in a wordless copy of the Aurora Consurgens, a simultaneously erotic and scientific text. This article argues that love—carnal and visceral, as well as the traditional sense of philosophy as love of wisdom—is the motivation behind the creation of learned manuscripts of this kind."

https://www.academia.edu/34694752/Fleshl...mber_2017_

"Our understanding of the role and development of alchemy in Poland and Lithuania is still in need of further research. However, it is already possible to present a number of interesting cases, starting with medieval scholars and passing through humanist intellectuals to early modern nobles and burghers. Although Michael Sendivogius was certainly the only Polish alchemist of pan-European stature, there were many others either lured by the dream of the Philosophers’ Stone or motivated by their thirst for knowledge. In some cases that interest seems to be related to the revolution in science (ultimately stemming from Copernicus), while in some others—to religious reformation (including Polish Brethren or Socinians). A brief survey of those individuals and circles is presented, along with some initial conclusions about the alternative channels through which alchemy penetrated the Eastern frontiers of Europe (the Armenian connection)."

https://www.academia.edu/145477070/Antem...mmonwealth

"This paper explores the intricate connections between alchemical practices and the theoretical foundations that underlie modern chemical medicine."

Emma Blankenship

https://www.academia.edu/15692534/Parace...l_Medicine

By Ferdinando Abbri

"For a long time alchemy has been considered a sort of intellectual and historiographical enigma, a locus classicus of the debates and controversies on the origin of modern chemistry. The present historiography of science has produced new approaches to the history of alchemy, and the alchemists’ roles have been clarified as regards the vicissitudes of Western and Eastern cultures. The paper aims at presenting a synthetic profile of the Western alchemy. The focus is on the question of the transmutation of metals, and the relationships among alchemists, chymists and artisans (goldsmiths, silversmiths) are stressed. One wants to emphasise the specificity of the history of alchemy, without any priority concern about the origins of chemistry. "

https://www.academia.edu/40463374/Gold_a...rn_Alchemy

Probing the Statistical Properties of Unknown Texts: Application to the Voynich Manuscript

By Eduardo Altmann

"The metrics found to be informative in distinguishing real texts from their shuffled versions include assortativity, degree and selectivity of words. As an illustration, we analyze an undeciphered medieval manuscript known as the Voynich Manuscript. We show that it is mostly compatible with natural languages and incompatible with random texts. We also obtain candidates for keywords of the Voynich Manuscript which could be helpful in the effort of deciphering it. Because we were able to identify statistical measurements that are more dependent on the syntax than on the semantics, the framework may also serve for text analysis in language-dependent applications."

https://www.academia.edu/33448901/Probin...Manuscript

"This article investigates how the Letter from Isis to Horus (first-fourth century CE) explores the literary potentialities allowed by the complex cultural backdrop one finds in late antique Egypt. By looking into how this example of alchemical writing both engages with and departs from shared motifs of Hermetism, the Greco-Egyptian magical papyri, and 1 Enoch, it demonstrates how the Letter uses literary artifice in a way that gives alchemical knowledge a specific and distinct voice. It also argues that the cultural mixture of Hermetism, magic, and Scripture represented in the Letter reflects the alchemical procedure of mixing frequently mentioned in the text."

https://www.academia.edu/113976310/In_th...s_to_Horus

In French.


This study analyzes the principal features of alchemical theory in general, with a particular focus on Jābir Ibn Ḥayyān’s contributions. It explores the Aristotelian,
Stoic, and Neoplatonic foundations of his thought, culminating in the so-called “Theory of Balances”—a framework that seeks to reduce all natural phenomena
and scientific knowledge, including cosmology, physics, and alchemy, to laws of quantity and measurement. In the Middle Ages, this theory served as a foundation
for establishing a quantitative system of natural science. Jābir translated the four degrees of intensity of the elementary qualities—borrowed from Greek medicine—
into characteristic numerical series. This study examines the connections between these speculations and Plato’s Timaeus, as well as Pythagorean arithmology, with
particular attention to the reucurring significance of the number 17 in Geber's thought.


https://jop.ut.ac.ir/article_105121_3cbf...06f681.pdf

Elder Futhark Arcanum: An Intuitive Interpretation of Rune Meanings Paperback – February 21, 2021
by All Natural Spirit (Author)

"Are you an open-minded spiritual practitioner? A seeker of truth and knowledge? Someone who is willing to discuss alternate perspectives? Then this book is for you. Here within is my attempt at finding the truth behind the purpose and origin of the Elder Futhark as well as intuitively deciphering their somewhat obscure meanings."


https://www.amazon.com/Elder-Futhark-Arc...B08WZGS4PY

(Mentioned on this forum because it contains additional western alchemical and astronomical associations for each rune.)