"The second part of the book concludes with Allison Kavey’s essay on popular English alchemical texts in the seventeenth century, which represent, she argues, an alternative tradition to the dominant Aristotelian model of the natural world. Instead of a system of binaries, as in most early modern medical and other scientific works, Paracelsian alchemical discourse was based on ‘systems of sympathy’ exemplified in the metaphor of the ‘chemical marriage’ (p. 223); and if that metaphor seems simply to reinforce Aristotelian principles of balance or tension between opposites, Kavey suggests that in alchemical writing the element mercury – often associated with Ganymede – ‘hermaphroditically confounds these divisions’ (p. 223) and in effect dissolves the apparent difference between male and female elements into a unitary or ‘shared, fluid essence’ (p. 228). Kavey does not actually discuss human same-sex desire or love; rather, she focuses on the use writers on alchemy made of figures of gender instability and metamorphosis, including (albeit rarely) images of male-male coupling, to illustrate the otherwise occult process of chemical transformation."

The Sciences of Homosexuality in Early Modern Europe
edited by: Kenneth Borris, George Rousseau
London, Routledge, 2008, ISBN: 9780415446921; 292pp.


https://reviews.history.ac.uk/review/701

Natural Philosophy in England, 1550-1600

"The rise of print culture in early modern England is one of the most important and most frequently studied changes of the period. Often viewed as a marker of modernity, this shift provides the starting point for Books of Secrets, which illuminates how sixteenth-century English culture was influenced by one particular type of print matter--"books of secrets." Ranging from alchemy to necromancy, these texts offered medieval [sic] readers an affordable and accessible collection of knowledge about the natural world."

https://www.press.uillinois.edu/books/?id=c032097

By Cynthea Masson.


https://journals.lib.unb.ca/index.php/fl...5361/20245

By Liana Saif.


At Scribd:

https://www.scribd.com/document/52045367...lgrave-Mac

Album by Valanx.

If you have Spotify:

https://open.spotify.com/album/2WUGl5LnKOLOiB7yESEhEL

A noblewoman and two noblemen examining some gold produced by an alchemist.

Greatbach after Alfred Holst Tourrier.



   

Translated by Christopher Templesage.

Texts by Paracelsus, Albert the Great, Raymond Lully, Roger Bacon, and Arnaud Villanova



https://www.amazon.co.uk/Five-Manuscript...1312355255

Guided Tour.

"Cette visite vous dévoilera l’histoire des alchimistes, ces magiciens des temps anciens qui ont inspiré de grandes œuvres, de Victor Hugo à Harry Potter. Apprentis alchimistes, suivez le chemin initiatique tracé jadis par Nicolas Flamel, et laissez-vous conter les enseignements philosophiques de Maître Albert dans le Quartier Latin. Tel Saint Michel, apprenez à maîtriser le dragon, la part sombre qui sommeille en vous. Laissez-vous entraîner dans une quête ésotérique, philosophique et passionnante, pleine d’histoire et de magie."

https://www.sous-les-paves.com/produit/p...lchimique/

Artist unknown.

https://collections.st-andrews.ac.uk/ite...ry/1001530

   

"In addition to its reputation for academic excellence, the University of Oxford possesses extraordinary library and museum collections that document the history of the world and provide vital support to the University’s teaching. The Cabinet project aims to make these resources more accessible for teaching and research through digitisation (both 2D and 3D) and bringing these resources into a single intuitive and interactive interface. The main aim is to embed images and objects from collections in Oxford and elsewhere more seamlessly into teaching and learning, from tutorial to lecture room, enriching the sources available to students and tutors.

The Cabinet platform provides tools for the exploration, annotation and discussion of collections from Oxford and externally. Designed from the beginning to work seamlessly with mobile devices, it can be used to zoom, spin, annotate and discuss sources, increasing the potential for fruitful individual and collective study. The ease of navigation between sources encourages new connections to be made and new insights to be shared by students and tutors alike.  In June 2017, Cabinet was the winner of an OxTALENT Award.

A major feature of Cabinet is the ability to explore full-colour 3D models of objects, ranging from minute artefacts a few centimetres across to entire monuments from the Oxford landscape. Oxford Internet Institute researchers are using Cabinet to learn more about the ways in which both staff and students interact with museum collections in the digital environment."


Explore!

https://www.cabinet.ox.ac.uk/c7-alchemy-and-chemistry