Linda Carney dissertation.

https://escholarshare.drake.edu/items/c0...5a61998a28

John Clements

"By the early decades of the eighteenth century alchemy and astrology had ceased to be considered respectable or credible by elite society. Astrology had been removed from
university curricula, while alchemy largely ceased to be publicly practised by the educated and respected and became regarded by those of elite status to be little more than a tool for charlatans or quacks. This thesis draws out these twin declines and considers them in parallel, focusing on trying to analyse what changed intellectually and socially within
England to so dramatically alter the fates of these arts."


https://etheses.whiterose.ac.uk/20821/1/...s.docx.pdf

Florin George Calian


"The accent on scientific and empirical character of alchemy, especially from the field of the history of science, promotes the idea that one can understand the cryptic and metaphorical language of alchemy mainly through the laboratory chemical practice. As a result, the tendency is to interpret the spiritual and esoteric language of alchemy, as metaphors for laboratory work and the most representative research on historiography of alchemy that point the spiritual character as being contaminated by esoteric sciences and Victorian occultism.'



https://www.researchgate.net/publication...of_Alchemy

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




   

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https://caasbrey.com/600-year-old-myster...professor/

https://stephenbax.net/

https://ed.ted.com/lessons/the-world-s-m...tephen-bax

The chapter on Dorn from Jeremy Naydler's 'In the Shadow of the Machine' is included in the Google preview (at least in some jurisdictions):

https://tinyurl.com/h3pbb7ss

See page 142ff

I'm sure we'd all like a closer look at the Teniers stuffed whatever-it-is.

This interesting blog, though not specifically alchemical, has a post on the domestic life of alchemists, and says: "crocodilians were commonly hung in the shops of apothecaries and other early modern drug-makers. They represented the natural wonders of the tropics, or 'Indies,' from which many such drugs hailed."

https://resobscura.blogspot.com/2011/01/

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

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fran%C3%A7...ius_Granet

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

May have been a pupil of Rembrandt.

From: https://digital.sciencehistory.org/works/w3763731m, Public Domain, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.ph...d=26741481

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