Selected as a CHOICE Outstanding Academic Title 2023

"From prehistoric metal extraction to medieval alchemy to modern industry, chemistry has been central to our understanding and use of the physical world as well as to trade, warfare and medicine. In its turn, chemistry has been shaped by changing technologies, institutions and cultural beliefs. A Cultural History of Chemistry presents the first detailed and authoritative survey from antiquity to today, focusing on the West but integrating key developments in Egypt, Mesopotamia, and the Arabic-Islamic and Byzantine empires."


https://www.bloomsbury.com/uk/cultural-h...474294928/

https://www.bloomsbury.com/us/cultural-h...350552296/

"Set in late 15th-century Europe, Eclipse follows a young Dominican friar traveling from Paris to Florence in search of pre-Christian manuscripts. His encounter with an ascetic alchemist draws him into a quest for enlightenment, disrupted by disasters culminating in a solar eclipse. Written as a memoir, the novel blends historical detail, medieval alchemical lore, and philosophical depth, challenging rigid worldviews. Originally published in 1998, Eclipse earned Hirano, then a 23 year-old undergraduate, the Akutagawa Prize, establishing him as a literary prodigy."


https://www.amazon.com/Eclipse-Novel-Kei...023121491X


Japanese edition:

https://www.amazon.co.jp/%E6%97%A5%E8%9D...101290407/

Excellent esoteric books publisher:

https://www.editionsbeya.com/


Including Thomas Vaughan complete works:

https://www.editionsbeya.com/collection/...-completes


   

"Christopher Warnock of Renaissance Astrology https://www.renaissanceastrology.com/ eventually discusses an actual dream he had about alchemy, but first has to give a lot of background about the medieval/Renaissance approach to both dreams and alchemy because the modern views are so different and we jump to them so automatically."


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TkNz_VSLCLA



Please do visit the excellent https://www.renaissanceastrology.com/  

"The impact and influence that a religious tradition can have amongst culturally out-group populations can be quite unexpected and can even “boomerang” back home in equally unpredictable ways. This article explores one example of a Chinese religion’s unexpected cultural influence within the Western psychiatric community using religious Daoism and its appropriation by analytical psychologist Carl Jung. Although elements of religious Daoism, such as Daoist Internal Alchemy or the Yijing, integrated into a system of psychiatric practices, its influence was not straightforward. It will be argued that Jungian ideas such as active imagination, individuation, and synchronicity were directly influenced or inspired by Jung’s exposure to religious Daoism through Richard Wilhelm, Daoist texts, and his own adoption of Daoist Internal Alchemy techniques, an influence which would reverberate through both Western and Chinese popular culture."

Ming Chen.


https://www.mdpi.com/2077-1444/16/1/69

"The phoenix rising: Alchemical imagination in the works of Edward Taylor, Edgar Allan Poe, and Nathaniel Hawthorne"


Author:
Randall Anthony Clack, University of Connecticut


"This study explores the use of the alchemical opus--the esoteric science which was concerned with the transmutation of base metals into gold--in the works of Edward Taylor, Edgar Allan Poe, and Nathaniel Hawthorne, three major authors from two distinct periods of pre-twentieth-century American literature who were influenced by hermetic (occult) philosophy and alchemy."


https://digitalcommons.lib.uconn.edu/dis...AI9511413/

At Liber Antiquus, Early Printed Books and Manuscripts.

"A very rare book, in which the author excoriates the false doctrines of alchemy and its practitioners, who spread the "seeds of their stupidity without any sense of shame for their nonsense" in the streets where they congregate, in their schools, and in their precious furnaces."


https://www.liberantiquus.com/pages/book...-cause-che

Why Does Gold Explode Purple?

It's a rare win for the turning-lead-into-gold crowd.


https://www.iflscience.com/400-year-old-...rple-71679

"I first met you at your talk, An Alternate History of Technology, AI & Its Alchemical Future, based on your podcast. In that talk, you established that the mathematical and conceptual basis of artificial intelligence was actually founded in Renaissance alchemy—that is, within a paradigm in which material science and spirituality were still unified as one."

https://pacificsun.com/paradigm-shifts-w...enan-azam/

"In April of 1651, the thirty-year-old Welshman Thomas Vaughan released what he said would be his last “discourse,” titled Lumen de Lumine, or a New Magical Light. It was also to be the key to his first, published the previous year and the subject of a protracted debate. Vaughan would continue to write books under the pseudonym Eugenius Philalethes (“well-born lover of truth”), but this new one would be unlike anything else he ever wrote.”

https://aulalucis.com/new-magical-light/