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  Johannes Moreelse: An Alchemist
Posted by: Paul Ferguson - 10-26-2023, 08:59 AM - Forum: Alchemical symbolism and imagery - No Replies

Johannes Paulus Moreelse, or Johan Pauwelszon Moreelse (c. 1603 – October 1634), was a Dutch baroque painter belonging to the school of Utrecht Caravaggism during the Dutch Golden Age. 

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



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  Bright Earth by Philip Ball
Posted by: Paul Ferguson - 10-26-2023, 08:50 AM - Forum: Reviews and book notices - No Replies

From Egyptian wall paintings to the Venetian Renaissance, impressionism to digital images, Philip Ball tells the fascinating story of how art, chemistry, and technology have interacted throughout the ages to render the gorgeous hues we admire on our walls and in our museums.

Finalist for the 2002 National Book Critics Circle Award.


https://press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/boo...16821.html

Chapter Four focusses on alchemy:

https://tinyurl.com/3ux95yrc

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  An Alchemist tempted by Luxuria
Posted by: Paul Ferguson - 10-26-2023, 08:36 AM - Forum: Alchemical symbolism and imagery - No Replies

Maerten de Vos

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



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  Atalanta Fugiens: The Alchemical King in Transformation by Catherine Morris Westcott
Posted by: Paul Ferguson - 10-26-2023, 08:28 AM - Forum: Articles on alchemy - No Replies

In Athanor X.


https://diginole.lib.fsu.edu/islandora/o...u%3A747794

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  L'art de faire de l'or
Posted by: Paul Ferguson - 10-25-2023, 05:43 PM - Forum: Alchemy texts - No Replies

   
"L'art de faire de l'or : la transmutation du fer, du cuivre et de l'argent en or" by Théodore Tiffereau

Between 1854 and 1855, Tiffereau presented six memoirs to the French Academy of Sciences concerning the transmutation of silver into gold. In particular, he claimed that silver from Mexico possessed specific chemical properties allowing this transmutation.

https://archive.org/details/BSG_BR50424


English translation available from Amazon:

https://tinyurl.com/4fzn884m

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  Experiments in alchemy. Part II: Medieval
Posted by: Paul Ferguson - 10-25-2023, 05:31 PM - Forum: Articles on alchemy - No Replies

"The authors consider a number of medieval discoveries from the heyday of alchemy: Greek fire, gunpowder sulfurous water, distillation, acids, bases, lead acetate, transmutations, slug gold, Tiffereau's gold, and "Spanish gold."


Full text with pdf button.


https://pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/ed053p235

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  Adept Alchemy Part II by Robert A. Nelson
Posted by: Paul Ferguson - 10-25-2023, 05:22 PM - Forum: Articles on alchemy - No Replies

Full text of Part II on Modern Transmutations

https://newenergytimes.com/v2/books/2016...Nelson.pdf



Earlier version of the entire text at Adam's website:

https://www.alchemywebsite.com/nelson_contents.html

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  Jean-Baptiste Dumas and the (Al)chemical Quest
Posted by: Paul Ferguson - 10-25-2023, 05:13 PM - Forum: Articles on alchemy - No Replies

The Mixed Blessings of Pragmatism. Jean-Baptiste Dumas and the (Al)chemical Quest for Metallic Transmutation

Leonardo Anatrini

"There  were  at  least  three  prerequisites  for  the  transmutability  of  metals  to  become  once  again  a  scientifically  acceptable  subject  of  research  from  the  1810s:  new  hypotheses  concerning  the  mutual  reducibility  of  certain  elements,  such  as  those  of  integer  multiples  and  protyle  put  forward  by  the  British  chemist  and  physician  Wil-liam  Prout;  the  experimental  confirmation  that  chemical  compounds  with  the  same  percentage  composition  could  be  substances  with  very  different  properties,  i.e.  the  discovery  of  isomerism  and  allotropy;  the  comparison  between  metals  and  compound  radicals  of  organic  chemistry.  This  paper  aims  at  illustrating  how  these  premises  were  exploited  by  Jean-Baptiste  Dumas,  one  of  the  leading  French  chemists  of  the  19th  cen-tury, to reintroduce in the chemical discourse the alchemical topic of transmutation."


https://riviste.fupress.net/index.php/su.../2169/1547

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  Principe: Dibner Library Lecture
Posted by: Paul Ferguson - 10-25-2023, 05:12 PM - Forum: Articles on alchemy - No Replies

"Alchemy.” To most people, the word stirs up a vision of medieval conjurors experimenting with ways of turning base metals into gold. Nothing could be further from the truth,
says Lawrence M. Principe, the 21st annual lecturer in the series hosted by the Dibner Library of the History of Science and Technology of the Smithsonian Libraries. In this highly
readable essay expanded from his lecture, Dr. Principe traces the fascination of practitioners, theorists, and scientists with the idea of transmutation of base metals from earliest
times, invigorated again in the 19th and early 20th centuries. He highlights “the successive making-up and breaking-up of alchemy and chemistry,” since both were stimulated
by “the desire to understand and to control matter and its transformations."

https://library.si.edu/sites/default/fil...efinal.pdf


See the lecture here:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Gc2YYPow6c

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  Dissertation: Rhetorical Construction of the Experimental Philosopher
Posted by: Paul Ferguson - 10-24-2023, 06:20 PM - Forum: Articles on alchemy - No Replies

Jennifer O'Meara.


ALCHEMISTS, EPICS, AND HEROES: THE RHETORICAL CONSTRUCTION OF THE SEVENTEENTH CENTURY EXPERIMENTAL PHILOSOPHER

"This dissertation contributes to the cultural study of the history of science by examining the rhetorical construction of seventeenth century natural
philosophy and natural philosophers in a literary context. I offer as the heart of my study an original interpretation of Thomas Sprat’s History of the Royal Society
as a prose epic...The chapters surrounding my reading of the History illustrate two very different rhetorical strategies that were used to explain and legitimize the character of the new experimentalist. The first strategy attempted to use comparisons and contrasts between the experimentalist and the alchemist."


https://core.ac.uk/download/pdf/158304481.pdf

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