... AND THE CATALOGUE OF HIS LIBRARY OF MANUSCRIPTS, FROM THE ORIGINAL MANUSCRIPTS IN THE ASHMOLEAN MUSEUM AT OXFORD, AND TRINITY
COLLEGE LIBRARY, CAMBRIDGE . EDITED BY JAMES ORCHARD HALLIWELL , ESQ . F.R.S.


https://www.sas.upenn.edu/~cavitch/pdf-l..._Diary.pdf

"I Dwelt in High Places" (1933) is a novel about Dr John Dee's relationship with Edward Kelley.


e-book:

https://www.gutenberg.net.au/ebooks23/2300441h.html

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

   

Full text.

https://www.magicgatebg.com/Books/INDEXI...20Life.pdf

"It is Sally Beamish’s highly original The King’s Alchemist that gives the disc its title, the King being King James IV of Scotland, killed at the battle of Flodden Field (1513) and the alchemist being the eccentric John Damian, who has so fascinated Beamish. (The latter attempted to fly by jumping off Stirling Castle’s battlements.)
The work has four movements and is based in part on the L’homme armé melody used at the time for Mass cycles including one by the King’s composer, Robert Carver.  Also, for movement three there is a Pavane, a popular dance of the period."


https://www.amazon.com/Kings-Alchemist-E...B0922QNWZG

https://www.britishmusicsociety.co.uk/20...ing-trios/

https://open.spotify.com/track/4DFbCNInTn6783inV8rFCq

Alchemy, saltpeter projects, and experimental fertilizers in seventeenth-century English agriculture.

Justin Niermeier-Dohoney


"As the primary ingredient in gunpowder, saltpeter was an extraordinarily important commodity in the early modern world. Historians of science and technology have long studied its military applications but have rarely focused on its uses outside of warfare. Due to its potential effectiveness as a fertilizer, saltpeter was also an integral component of experimental agricultural reform movements in the early modern period and particularly in seventeenth-century England. This became possible for several reasons: the creation of a thriving domestic saltpeter production industry in the second half of the sixteenth century; the development of vitalist alchemical theories that sought a unified explanation for the “growth” of minerals, metals, and plants; the rise of experimental natural philosophy; and the mid-seventeenth-century dominance of the English East India Company in the saltpeter trade, which allowed agricultural reformers to repurpose domestically produced saltpeter in agriculturally productive ways. This paper argues that the Hartlib Circle – a loose network of natural philosophers and social reformers – adopted vitalist matter theories and the practical, experimental techniques of alchemists to transform agriculture into a more productive enterprise. Though their grandiose plans never came to fruition, their experimental trials to develop artificial fertilizers played an early role in the origins and development of saline chemistry, agronomy, and the British Agricultural Revolution."

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https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177...3211033159

"Othello's absence in discussions of alchemical references in Shakespeare's works is not surprising, given that the play makes no explicit mention of gold making or the philosopher's stone, the two ideas likely to be most readily associated with alchemy in the minds of a twenty-first century audience. Consequently, the alchemical import of the play's language, such as the lines of Brabantio's accusation that Othello corrupts and steals Desdemona by "spells and medicines bought of mountebanks," or fraudulent vendors of alchemical wares, is easily overlooked (1.3.61).1 While the reference may seem casual, it is part of a thematic pattern of inversions in alchemical allusion, or more specifically, reversals of the redemptive alchemical allusion in Renaissance literature and poetry."

Thesis by Sarita Clara Rich (Brigham Ypung)
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https://scholarsarchive.byu.edu/cgi/view...ontext=etd

A Most Mysterious Union

by Stephen Wilkerson

"Stephen Wilkerson's sensitive and probing exploration of Goethe's classic poem rests on both a promise and a belief: that humankind thirsts for an alchemical transformation of spirit but may not yet fully realize how to initiate such a quest. His study reveals, by way of Goethe's genius and Jung's exploration of alchemy, that the poetic imagination has the capacity to inform, reform and so transform the individual into a more receptive, porous and compassionate worldview by embracing the energies of the Feminine in her earthly and divine figures."


https://www.amazon.com/Most-Mysterious-U...1630514101

"In 2014, the Faust Museum/Faust Archive team was visited by a delegation from the State Museum of Prehistory in Halle. Archaeologists, historians and chemists had announced themselves with a breakthrough: „We have found Faust‘s alchemy laboratory!“ Thanks to this initial contact, a wonderful cooperation with one of Germany‘s most renowned museums was born. And: through this cooperation, unique archaeological finds came to Knittlingen!

In fact, during excavations on the grounds of the Franciscan monastery in Wittenberg in 2012, the waste pit of an alchemy laboratory was discovered. It was located on the north wall of the church under a staircase and near the former monastery kitchen. Among other things, the stylistic classification of the existing utility glass suggests that it dates from around 1570 (late 16th to first half of the 17th century). At this time, the monastery had already been dissolved and the sovereign allocated the rooms for other uses. It is possible that a laboratory technician produced pharmaceutical raw materials on behalf of the prince-elector.

Since the historical Faust, Johann Georg Faust, is also presumed to have been staying in Wittenberg, the Knittlingen alchemist and mage could indeed have worked in this laboratory."


https://faustmuseum.de/en/faust-museum/t...tor-faust/

"In this issue of the Rosicrucian Digest, we present Rosicrucian Alchemy."

https://www.rosicrucian.org/rosicrucian-...an-alchemy

The Taoist Practice of Neidan
By Wang Mu
Edited and translated by Fabrizio Pregadio 



"Originally written for Chinese readers, this renowned book provides a clear description of the Taoist practice of Internal Alchemy, or Neidan. The author outlines the stages of the practice and clarifies several relevant terms and notions, including Essence, Breath, and Spirit; the Cinnabar Fields; the "Fire Phases"; and the Embryo. The book is based on the system of the Wuzhen pian (Awakening to Reality), one of the main sources of Internal Alchemy, and contains about two hundred quotations from original Taoist texts."

https://www.goldenelixir.com/press/tao_0...tions.html