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  Laboratories of Art
Posted by: Paul Ferguson - 09-30-2023, 11:59 PM - Forum: Reviews and book notices - No Replies

Laboratories of Art

Alchemy and Art Technology from Antiquity to the 18th Century


[*]Includes accessibly written chapters on the widest range of visual and decorative arts by scholars of history of alchemy and chemistry

[*]High-quality images, sometimes of art objects shown here in print for the first time

[*]Includes references to art objects included in the exhibition on art and alchemy at the Museum Kunstpalast in Düsseldorf



https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/9...19-05065-2

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  The Age of Alchemy
Posted by: Paul Ferguson - 09-30-2023, 11:53 PM - Forum: Articles on alchemy - No Replies

Illustrated article by Professor Fathi Habashi, Laval University.

At Scribd:

https://fr.scribd.com/document/542788330/2-habashi1998

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  Antique Prints on Alchemy for Sale
Posted by: Paul Ferguson - 09-30-2023, 11:51 PM - Forum: Alchemical symbolism and imagery - No Replies

https://www.philographikon.com/chemistryalchemy.html

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  Leibniz and Alchemy
Posted by: Paul Ferguson - 09-30-2023, 11:44 PM - Forum: Articles on alchemy - No Replies

By George MacDonald Ross 
Studia Leibnitiana, Sonderheft 7, Magia naturalis und die Entstehung der modernen Naturwissenschaften, 1975, pp.166–177

"As I have shown in my article “Leibniz and the Nuremberg Alchemical Society”, which appeared in last year’s Studia Leibnitiana it is beyond all reasonable doubt that Leibniz was employed by an alchemical society during the winter of 1666-67."

https://www.academia.edu/35663802/LEIBNIZ_AND_ALCHEMY


See this article also:

"Leibniz played on alchemical dreams of transmutation to sell his own venture. Like the alchemists before him, he promised vast wealth from the fruits of secret knowledge. If the forces of nature could be harnessed to work the mines, there would be no need for transmutation; the silver was there already, in the bowels of the Harz. The issue was simply how to recover it."

https://scholarship.claremont.edu/cgi/vi...er_fac_pub

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  IsisCB Explore: open access discovery service for history of science
Posted by: Paul Ferguson - 09-30-2023, 11:40 PM - Forum: News - Meeting - Events - No Replies

Built on 50-years of data in the Isis Bibliography of the History of Science.

https://data.isiscb.org/

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  OA.mg: Open Access Academic Search Engine
Posted by: Paul Ferguson - 09-30-2023, 11:36 PM - Forum: News - Meeting - Events - Replies (1)

"OA.mg is a search engine for academic papers. Whether you are looking for a specific paper, or for research from a field, or all of an author’s works – OA.mg is the place to find it."

https://oa.mg/

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  Anna Zieglerin and the Lion’s Blood
Posted by: Paul Ferguson - 09-30-2023, 11:31 PM - Forum: Reviews and book notices - No Replies

Anna Zieglerin and the Lion’s Blood: Alchemy and End Times in Reformation Germany. By Tara Nummedal. Haney Foundation Series. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2019. Pp. xii+288. $49.95.

"In 1573, the alchemist Anna Zieglerin gave her patron, the Duke of Braunschweig-Wolfenbüttel, the recipe for an extraordinary substance she called the lion's blood. She claimed that this golden oil 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."


https://www.amazon.com/Anna-Zieglerin-Li...0812250893


Reviewed here:

https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/720888

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  Alchemy and Authority in the Holy Roman Empire
Posted by: Paul Ferguson - 09-30-2023, 11:26 PM - Forum: Reviews and book notices - No Replies

By Tara E. Nummedal

"Drawing on criminal trial records, contracts, laboratory inventories, satires, and vernacular alchemical treatises, Alchemy and Authority in the Holy Roman Empire situates the everyday alchemists, largely invisible to modern scholars until now, at the center of the development of early modern science and commerce."

https://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0226608565


Reviewed here:

https://networks.h-net.org/node/35008/re...man-empire

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  Reuse of alchemical diagram
Posted by: Adam McLean - 09-30-2023, 03:29 PM - Forum: Alchemical symbolism and imagery - No Replies

The frontispiece in Tractatus chymicus antiquissimus et vere aureus, in quo spectare licet fundamenta ferae chymiae, nec non figuram verissimam hermeticam, et facillimam viam ad medicinam universalem, cum curiosis quatuor epistolis cuiusdam adepti, in lucem datus ab uno verae chymiae amatore. Augustae Vind.: apud David Reymund Mertz, et Joann Jacob Mayer, 1721.
 

   


was reused in  Die sieben heiligen grundsaeulen der ewigkeit und zeit. In deutlichen sinnbildern, zum besten aller weisheit suchenden... Nebst dem Brunnen der weisheit und erkenntniss der Natur [Anonymus von Schwarzfuss]. Den Grundsätzen der wahren Alchemie. Vier merkwürdigen Briefen eines Adepten. Herausgegeben von AdaMah Booz. Leipzig, 1783.


   

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  Symbols in a portrait of alchemist Giovanni Capponi
Posted by: Paul Ferguson - 09-30-2023, 09:27 AM - Forum: Alchemical symbolism and imagery - No Replies

THE PORTRAIT OF A MEDIEVAL ALCHEMIST WITH SYMBOLS OF ELEMENTS IMITATING CREATION

by S. MAHDIHASSAN


https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/article...L-8-44.pdf

Text just about comprehensible.



Line engraving by L. Tinti

   

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