"A man conducts an alchemical experiment with an alembic, in the foreground, in the background a female figure representing the world observes a man of the new school of chemistry who prepares an oxygen experiment with a glass jar and a candle: a representation of the historical transition between alchemy and chemistry. Coloured stipple engraving by J. Chapman, 1805, after Richard Corbould, 1757-1831. Dated 27 July 1805."

https://wellcomecollection.org/works/mafrtufg/items

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The Secrets of the Reverend Maister Alexis of Piemont, containing excellent remedies against diverse diseases, wounds, and other accidents, with the maner to make Distillations, Parfumes, Confitures, Dying, Colours, Fusions, and Meltings.

Text here:
https://archive.org/details/secretsofrev...c/mode/2up

Articles:
https://kingsearlymodern.co.uk/key-texts/the-secrets

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

"Alchemical miscellany, produced in the fifteenth century, probably in Italy. For an analysis of the contents and identification of the treatises it contains see Helen M. Briggs, 'De Duobus Fratribus Minoribus Medii Aevi Alchemistis, Fr. Paulo de Tarento et Fr. Elia', in Archivum Franciscanum Historicum, xx (1927)."


https://www.digitalcollections.mancheste...IN-00065/1

Dot Porter, Curator, Digital Research Services at the University of Pennsylvania Library, presents a video orientation to LJS 382, a collection of alchemical notes gathered by Georg Hayniger of Dormpoch, near Vienna, ca. 1476.


https://schoenberginstitute.org/2023/03/...ientation/

Many of the most interesting manuscript stains are found in the bindings and folios of soiled, heavily-used medical and alchemical texts. Signs of this practical use may be obvious, such as burn marks from furnaces, but innocuous-looking stains (e.g. appearing to be water damage) may contain hidden information about medicinal or chemical solutions, or even heavy metal contamination, which is not evident by sight alone."

https://schoenberginstitute.org/2019/05/...l-imaging/

Content: 45 amulets, sigils and diagrams, beginning with talismans offering protection against, among other things, neid und haß (anger and hate), den bösen geiß (the evil spirits) and Zauberij (witchcraft), as well as one petitioning Größen Herren Freundschaft (the friendship of great men). Follow the traditional symbols for mercury, copper, gold and at the head of one of the larger talismans, the philosopher’s stone locked within the Seal of Solomon; the AGLA talisman (a notariqon, or kabbalistic acronym, of the biblical phrase ‘Ateh Gibor Le-olam Adonai,’ ‘The Lord is mighty forever.’; and finally further protections against failure in war (‘Est magna potentia in bello […]’), imprisonment (‘Valet si quis foret incarceratus et ligatus catenis ferreis […]’) and the plague (‘Remedium probabilissimu[m] contra pestem’). The final diagram represents the sigil of Ameth (or Sigillum Dei Aemeth), containing the names of God and various angels. The sigil is best known in relation to the Enochian workings of John Dee (1527-1608/9), the great British mathematician, astronomer, astrologer, occult philosopher, and advisor to Queen Elizabeth I, as he was supposedly instructed to re-create it by angels he contacted during his scrying sessions with the occultist and spirit medium Edward Kelley.


https://www.christies.com/lot/magical-an...8385&lid=1

"his 17th-century 'helmet' was not intended to be worn on the head, but for distilling liquids. In Belgium, we know of no other such example. This makes the ‘helmet’ indispensable in illustrating the history of distillation in the Low Countries. In various 16th and 17th-century engravings and paintings, such as The alchemist by Pieter Bruegel from 1558, you can see how vapours were cooled down and converted into liquids in a helmet like this. These then ran into a jar or bottle."

https://mas.be/en/distilleerhelm

https://www.lot-tissimo.com/en-gb/auctio...6000d9e787

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"The physician Johann Daniel Mylius illustrated his edition of the 15th-century Scala philosophorum (Ladder of the Philosophers) with twelve alchemical engravings, including the Chemical Wedding. The sequence shown here was originally designed for a later work, the Twelve Keys of Basil Valentine, which describes a different chemical approach, based on antimony. Mylius has retrofitted the sequence by adding titles that correspond to the first four steps of the Scala: Calcination, Dissolution, Separation, and Conjunction."

https://dpul.princeton.edu/alchemy/catalog/8w32rc59q

"At the very beginning of the twentieth century, alchemy became popular again, after long oblivion. Ernest Rutherford (1871–1937) received the Nobel Prize in 1908 for the “transmutation” of radioactive thorium into helium, which he conducted in 1901. After that, Rutherford wrote a book with the catchy title The Newer Alchemy. The law of radioactive decay, formulated by Rutherford, implied the gradual transformation of one substance into another. Therefore, it is not surprising that in the press these experiments were perceived as the return of alchemy. Many other scientists pursued the modern “philosopher’s stone” under the influence of new inventions and articles published by the Alchemical Dociety in London, formed in 1912 and including both occultists and many significant scientists, chemists and physicists, like John Ferguson (1837–1916), and Herbert Stanley Redgrove (1887–1943). The goal of the Alchemical Society was to search for alchemical wisdom in ancient texts to implement this knowledge to the modern areas of scientific research."

https://warwick.ac.uk/fac/arts/history/g..._fever_in/