Representations of gender in seventeenth-century Netherlandish alchemical genre painting

O'Mahoney, Elizabeth (2005), PhD thesis, University of York.


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https://etheses.whiterose.ac.uk/10994/

Contemporary artist and illustrator.

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A photographic reproduction of the replica of an alchemist's laboratory located in the Deutsches Museum in Munich, Germany. Various vessels for distillation can be seen along with two furnaces.

https://digital.sciencehistory.org/works/12579t27k

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"The aim of this study is to establish the relationship of alchemical practices regarding the fabrication of materials made available to artists during the medieval
and the early Renaissance periods."

https://hrcak.srce.hr/file/283934

In 1573, an alchemist named Anna Zieglerin gave her patron, the Duke of Braunschweig-Wolfenbüttel, the recipe for something she called “the lion’s blood” which she claimed could “stimulate the growth of plants, create gemstones, transform lead into the coveted philosophers’ stone—and would serve a critical role in preparing for the Last Days.” And that was not all that it could do. “Anna proposed that the lion’s blood, paired with her own body, could even generate life, repopulating and redeeming the corrupt world in its final moments.”

https://historicallythinking.org/episode...the-stake/

Hereward Tilton

https://furnaceandfugue.org/front-matter...ted/maier/

Introduction here:

https://www.hab.de/en/in-depth-catalogui...f-alchemy/


On-line portal to alchemical texts here:

http://alchemie.hab.de/

Håkansson, Håkan, Univ. Of Lund

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https://lucris.lub.lu.se/ws/portalfiles/...402822.pdf

V. Karpenko.

"An attempt is made to analyze both, the alchemy as a science, and its state in the High European Renaissance. In the first part of the paper the history of alchemy is described in short, from its supposed Hellenistic origin through Arabic world to Latin Europe."

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http://www.chemicke-listy.cz/ojs3/index..../view/2653

Early Greek Alchemy, Patronage and Innovation in Late Antiquity

"The appearance of alchemical commentaries between the first and the fourth century CE provides us with an opportunity to study a striking example of innovation
in ancient Greek scholarship. Contextualizing the alchemical commentaries of Zosimus of Panopolis (c. 300 CE)—the oldest extant alchemical author—can help
us understand how this form of scholarship came to be considered worth studying and copying by ancient scholars, i.e. by professionals of paideia."

https://escholarship.org/content/qt2ks0g...f?t=ppwaz3