"The medieval and Renaissance era is rich in allusions to alchemy and studies have analysed its impact on male writers such as John Donne and Andrew Marvell. Now an EU study has looked at the writing of female alchemists to gain a more inclusive picture."

https://cordis.europa.eu/article/id/4305...alchemists

"Fermentation is a funny thing in the wine, bread and beer world, causing extreme changes to ingredients with seemingly little input. As such, fermentation was — up until fairly recently — hailed as a semi-mystical process, and was widely revered in medicine and alchemy."

https://medium.com/vinia-magazine/the-ra...bca3d9d6b3

"Alchemical symbols represent chemical, elements and substances used in alchemy, an ancient branch of natural philosophy. Unicode has a separate block for alchemical symbols with the allocated code point range from 1F700 to 1F77F. Here is the alt code shortcuts for alchemical symbols to insert them on documents and conversations."

https://www.webnots.com/alt-code-shortcu...l-symbols/

"This special issue of Ambix is an outgrowth of the Tenth Annual Postgraduate Workshop titled “Society and the Creation of (al)Chemical Knowledge” hosted by the Embassy of the Free Mind in Amsterdam, 29–30 November 2019. This meeting of early career scholars with a shared interest in the history of alchemy and chemistry illustrated the diversity of methodological approaches that contribute to this subfield."

Megan Piorko et al

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https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....22.2035572

"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/...22F4553ACF

Here you can learn about Islamic medicine and science during the Middle Ages and the important role it played in the history of Europe. This site, with its biographies, colorful images, and extensive historical accounts of medieval medicine and science is designed for students and everyone interested in the history of Islamic and European culture.
For students, the site includes an extensive glossary of medical, scientific, and book-production terminology linked to the text.
For advanced scholars, the site provides a catalogue raisonné (including images) from the 300 or so Persian and Arabic manuscripts in the National Library of Medicine. Most of these manuscripts deal with medieval medicine and science and were written for learned physicians and scientists. Some of the manuscripts are richly illuminated and illustrated.



https://mainweb.awsprod.nlm.nih.gov/hmd/...b.html#top


Image Gallery:

https://mainweb.awsprod.nlm.nih.gov/hmd/...llery.html

Paris has been keeping its mysteries for centuries. Some arouse fascination and others spark fantasy. Facts, similarities, and reliable witnesses prove the occurrence of these events. In the coming 6 episodes, scientific and historical investigations are going to unveil the darkest secrets of the City of Lights. Here is the city of Paris as you have never seen it before.


https://www.dailymotion.com/video/x8pjdl7

The Influence of Louvain Teaching on Jan Baptist Van Helmont's Adoption of Paracelsianism and Alchemy

"This article investigates the extent to which Louvain (Leuven) teaching could provide the foundations of a new learning and philosophy that included Paracelsianism and alchemy. The particular lens is through Van Helmont’s studies in Louvain, taking place in the 1590s. It shows that teaching at Louvain had a profound impact on Van Helmont’s thought. The paper further points out that Van Helmont’s learning process did not include only traditional university courses, but also classes at the Jesuit college, and practical learning through Jesuits and artisans."

https://www.academia.edu/108998348/The_I...nd_Alchemy

The research of the DFG-funded project focuses on determining the relationship between pietistic religiosity and alchemical practices as well as theoretical adoptions from speculative alchemy at the Halle Orphanage in the 18th century. One core thesis is that the pharmacy and medicine practised there were more closely connected to medical alchemy in the early modern period than previously assumed.

https://www.francke-halle.de/en/project/...-pietism-1

by Michael Gaudio 

"Michael Maier’s Atalanta fugiens (1618) offers a heady mix of arcane alchemical principles, humanist literary references, and contrapuntal fugues, but it is the volume’s striking copperplate etchings that are most likely to retain a vivid presence in the reader’s imagination long after the book is closed."

https://furnaceandfugue.org/essays/gaudio/