Beyond patronage: Michael Sendivogius and the meanings of success in alchemy

https://www.academia.edu/977421/Beyond_p...in_alchemy

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Paul Kiritsis

Part One:
https://paulkiritsis.net/down-the-rabbit...-part-one/

"The name Franz Anton Mesmer (1734-1815) is often evoked with respect to the evolutionary history of hypnosis. In actual fact he’s something of an ancillary pioneer, having stumbled upon the technique completely by chance. But save for this remarkable discovery he was also responsible for the foundation of a philosophical system that would facilitate the mid-nineteenth century emergence of spiritual or “psychical” alchemy, an innovative breed of esoteric inquiry which went on to dominate twentieth century hermeneutics and contemporary “occult” interpretations of the Hermetic Art."


Part Two:
https://paulkiritsis.net/down-the-rabbit...-part-two/

"Englishwoman Mary Anne South (1817-1910) was a leading figure in the reinvigoration of the spiritual interpretation of alchemy during a Victorian era where every layperson seemed to be captivated by the occult."

Swiss professional photographer Boissonnas (1858-1946) would sometimes construct elaborate sets in his studio and create photographs after famous paintings.  This study of Faust in his laboratory is done in the style of a famous Rembrandt etching.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fr%C3%A9d%...Boissonnas

   

"The Order is the only novel I’ve written thus far to touch on themes of alchemy, the old science of transmuting elements and coercing the physical world through occult processes. I’d hasten to add that “occult” only means “evil” when it appears on a movie poster. Any good dictionary will tell you that it really suggests something hidden or obscured. As Mairéad learns, there’s not much about The Order that isn’t."

https://www.stevenwilliamrimmer.com/theorder.html


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Establishing the Canon: George Ripley and his Alchemical Sources.

Jennifer Rampling.
 
"George Ripley, Canon of Bridlington (ca. 1415 to ca. 1490) was one ofEngland’s most famous alchemists, whose alchemical opera attracted study and commentary throughout the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries,and were printed and translated both in England and abroad. Yet Ripley’s frequently baffling texts have proved resistant to scholarly interpretation.This paper attempts to unravel some of Ripley’s alchemical theories and practice, firstly by identifying his major sources, and secondly by gauginghis response to these texts."

https://www.academia.edu/3709516/Establi...al_Sources

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David Katz.

http://www.chymist.com/History%20Alchemy.pdf

Pieter Symonsz Potter (1597 in Enkhuizen – 1652 in Amsterdam), was a Dutch Golden Age painter.


   

Integrating Traditional Bibliographic and Modern Computational Methods

Meridith Beck Mink, Michelle Dalmau, Wallace Hooper, William R. Newman, James R. Voelkel and John A. Walsh

"The Chymistry of Isaac Newton (http://chymistry.org) project team has digitized and encoded, following the TEI Guidelines, the complete corpus of Newton’s alchemical manuscripts, which total more than two thousand pages and over one million words."


https://journals.openedition.org/jtei/2866

" As well as reams of text, the ins and outs of the alchemist's task, steeped as it is in a dizzyingly complex symbology, has given birth to a whole host of strange and wondrous imagery over the centuries. Here we pick out some favourites, many found on Wellcome Images and the brilliant Manly Palmer Hall collection at the Internet Archive."

https://publicdomainreview.org/collectio...-diagrams/

Editorial from Perception, vol. 18, 1989

https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/pdf/10.1068/p180697