Arabic Alchemy 'Ilm al-San'a: Science of the Art

A good general survey:

https://www.history-science-technology.c...%2010.html

Between Alchemy and Pietism

Wilhelm Christoph Kriegsmann’s Philological Quest for Ancient Wisdom

Mike A. Zuber


"A minor figure undeservedly forgotten, Wilhelm Christoph Kriegsmann (1633–1679) has received only limited attention from historians of alchemy and church historians. He is
known chiefly either for his idiosyncratic Phoenician reconstruction of the Tabula Smaragdina, a foundational text of alchemy attributed to Hermes Trismegistus, or alternatively for writing one of the earliest sustained defenses of Pietist conventicles to appear in print."

https://tinyurl.com/4cujvn38

"It was a century when dies were cast, distinctions made, and attitudes changed. The Ouroboros shed its skin: alchemy became chemistry and natural
philosophy became reductionist science; the shed skins were beautiful, though lifeless representations of the wonders of Nature. But the change was not clear
until later. One place where key actors in the drama came together was England’s second city, Norwich."


https://www.sirthomasbrowne.org.uk/uploa...ed__1_.pdf

I don't know whether this is still running...


"The Historical Division of the American Chemical Society (A.C.S.), the largest professional organization in the world, has asked you and up to three others to assist them with a project. They wish to research the early development of Chemistry by studying the historical relevance of four different Alchemists from the 13th to the 18th Century. After the completion of your research, your group will present a paper to the A.C.S. who will evaluate your work and determine if it warrants additional inquiry (and grant money, which is always a good thing!)."


https://mhchem.org/221/wq/Alchemist/webquest1.html

For Flute, Viola, 'Cello and Piano (2005) [Score-Video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0QsAIxn6eE8

Adams describes it as a spiritual piece inspired by his interest in alchemy. He says the song signifies “submission to the power of the universe.”

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

Manuscripts, mainly of alchemical and early chemical interest, c 14th to 19th centuries, from the personal library of John Ferguson. With some of his personal papers, mainly drafts of articles, etc.


https://archiveshub.jisc.ac.uk/search/ar...7fca13d983

"This volume is the fourth in the series ‘Leipzig Explorations in Literature and Culture’. Several of the titles that have appeared under this rubric have been monographic, while one other, the excellent Lost Worlds and Mad Elephants: Literature, Science and Technology 1700-1990, examined the perennial but still-urgent issue concerning the correspondences and dissonances that exist between literature and science. To a certain extent, The Golden Egg does something similar to that book, though the debate over the relationship between the ‘two cultures’ is given an extra dimension here by taking as its focus alchemy, which is notoriously irreducible to one or the other – and that is where its chief interest lies today."

Alexandra Lembert & Elmar Schenkel (eds.), The Golden Egg: Alchemy in Art and Literature, Berlin & Cambridge, MA, Galda & Wilch Verlag, 2002, 231 pp. [ISBN 3-931397-40-8 and 1-931255-10-5]

https://www.hyle.org/journal/issues/9-2/...kinson.htm

https://www.abebooks.com/9783931397401/G...397408/plp

"Autograph manuscript in Latin 8 pp recto and verso, on two bifolia (watermarked arms of London), with wrappers made up from the same stock 4to (284 x 182 mm), [1690s]
Closely written in ink with numerous deletions and supralinear emendations, approximately 45 lines per page totaling roughly 4000 words.


"Opus Galli Anonymi contains excerpts from an unidentified work by an unknown French author. The ideas resemble those in mid-14th century texts (such as Clavicula “the little key”) ascribed, falsely, to Raymond Llull."

https://digital.library.illinois.edu/ite...67%2C10776

Be sure to click on 'Supplementary Document' at the bottom-left of the image for further information about Newton and his interest in alchemy.

Cold light in the painting ‘Group portrait in the Chemist’s House’.

by Alicja Rafalska-Lasocha, Wieslaw Lasocha, Anna Jasinska

"In 2005 the Jagiellonian University Museum mounted the exhibition Uczony i jego pracownia / The Scholar and His Study, which was opened from 11th May to 28th August. Among the paintings borrowed from numerous museums in Poland, and scientific instruments chiefly from the collections of the Jagiellonian University Museum, was a picture by a 17th century Dutch artist, Cornelis de Man. It is the property of the National Museum in Warsaw, on permanent display in the Gallery of Foreign Paintings... Alchemists  treated  light  as  a  symbol  of  the  spirit  and  were particularly interested in the light imprisoned in matter."

See attached pdf


   

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"The Studiolo is actually divided into two parts – a study proper and an alchemical laboratory, the latter being a sort of wunderkammer in which Francesco I, who had little taste for politics, often took refuge. It is said that the prince would here engage in alchemical experiments or else delight in his collection of rare objects, all within a space that was decorated with a series of large format paintings from his collection."

Jen Smith

https://medmeanderings.com.au/history/th...de-medici/


Adapted from Secret Florence by Niccolo Rinaldi, available to borrow here:

https://archive.org/details/secretflorence0000rina_x1b3