Images from the 2016-2017 exhibition.


https://www.getty.edu/research/exhibitio...s/alchemy/

"In 1707 the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh was the recipient of an important collection of alchemical manuscripts, including a rare and unusual alchemical
document, a Ripley Scroll, most of which had belonged to Sir George Erskine of Innerteil."

https://www.rcpe.ac.uk/journal/issue/jou...per_12.pdf

Uwe Korn

Full text

https://www.researchgate.net/publication...0/download

...in the Writings of Guy de La Brosse (1586-1641)

" The present article focuses on La Brosse's views of advancement of plant alchemy as the source of knowledge of plants. It discusses his adoption of the Paracelsian physician Joseph Du Chesne's (Quercetanus, 1546-1609) distinction between external and internal signature theory, opting firmly for the latter as the basis of true knowledge. The internal character, La Brosse argues, can only be revealed empirically, by fire analysis and the practice of distillation, which can also harness the occult properties of plants for human benefit."

https://www.academia.edu/108998586/Plant...1586_1641_

Unionpedia is a concept map or semantic network organized like an encyclopedia – dictionary. It gives a brief definition of each concept and its relationships.

https://en.unionpedia.org/

https://en.unionpedia.org/Alchemy

"This is the first volume to take a broad historical sweep of the close relation between medicines and poisons in the Western tradition, and their interconnectedness. They are like two ends of a spectrum, for the same natural material can be medicine or poison, depending on the dose, and poisons can be transformed into medicines, while medicines can turn out to be poisons. The book looks at important moments in the history of the relationship between poisons and medicines in European history, from Roman times, with the Greek physician Galen, through the Renaissance and the maverick physician Paracelsus, to the present, when poisons are actively being turned into beneficial medicines."

Full text:

https://www.academia.edu/89528431/It_All...an_History

"A Renaissance man of many talents, the younger Winthrop was well-versed in alchemy, natural magic, medicine, and early modern industrial technology, and quickly acquired a talent for political maneuvering as well."


https://todayincthistory.com/2023/11/04/...n-america/

"To begin the symposium, Professor Alisha Rankin of Tufts University is discussing female alchemists in the 1500s."

"This talk examines the connection of women to distillation in early modern Europe and the perceived divide between distilling medicines (viewed as women’s domain) and alchemy (viewed as a male activity)."


https://blogs.uoregon.edu/hwssymposium/2...rn-europe/


https://cas.uoregon.edu/news/history-sym...en-science

"The mystery behind why the world’s first high explosive, fulminating gold, produces a purple smoke when it detonates has been solved, finally resolving a 400-year-old alchemical puzzle."


https://www.chemistryworld.com/news/secr...42.article

"I have an aunt who enjoys a great reputation for her skill in the occult sciences, especially in alchemy. She is a woman of wit, very rich, and sole mistress of her fortune; in short, knowing her will do you no harm. She longs to see you, for she pretends to know you, and says that you are not what you seem. She has entreated me to take you to dine with her, and I hope you will accept the invitation. Her name is the Marchioness d’Urfé."

(Casanova’s Memoirs, The Eternal Quest, Chapter III)


https://www.casanovashadows.com/the-marquise-durfe/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeanne_Cam...carr%C3%A9