"his 17th-century 'helmet' was not intended to be worn on the head, but for distilling liquids. In Belgium, we know of no other such example. This makes the ‘helmet’ indispensable in illustrating the history of distillation in the Low Countries. In various 16th and 17th-century engravings and paintings, such as The alchemist by Pieter Bruegel from 1558, you can see how vapours were cooled down and converted into liquids in a helmet like this. These then ran into a jar or bottle."

https://mas.be/en/distilleerhelm

https://www.lot-tissimo.com/en-gb/auctio...6000d9e787

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"The physician Johann Daniel Mylius illustrated his edition of the 15th-century Scala philosophorum (Ladder of the Philosophers) with twelve alchemical engravings, including the Chemical Wedding. The sequence shown here was originally designed for a later work, the Twelve Keys of Basil Valentine, which describes a different chemical approach, based on antimony. Mylius has retrofitted the sequence by adding titles that correspond to the first four steps of the Scala: Calcination, Dissolution, Separation, and Conjunction."

https://dpul.princeton.edu/alchemy/catalog/8w32rc59q

"At the very beginning of the twentieth century, alchemy became popular again, after long oblivion. Ernest Rutherford (1871–1937) received the Nobel Prize in 1908 for the “transmutation” of radioactive thorium into helium, which he conducted in 1901. After that, Rutherford wrote a book with the catchy title The Newer Alchemy. The law of radioactive decay, formulated by Rutherford, implied the gradual transformation of one substance into another. Therefore, it is not surprising that in the press these experiments were perceived as the return of alchemy. Many other scientists pursued the modern “philosopher’s stone” under the influence of new inventions and articles published by the Alchemical Dociety in London, formed in 1912 and including both occultists and many significant scientists, chemists and physicists, like John Ferguson (1837–1916), and Herbert Stanley Redgrove (1887–1943). The goal of the Alchemical Society was to search for alchemical wisdom in ancient texts to implement this knowledge to the modern areas of scientific research."

https://warwick.ac.uk/fac/arts/history/g..._fever_in/

A Latin-German glossary of Paracelsian terms from Peuckert's great edition.

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Alchemisten und Rosenkreuzer: Sittenbilder von Petrarca bis Balzac, von Breughel bis Kubin, Heidelberg, 1947

German text plus 30 poor-quality illustrations.

Full text.
https://digi.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/diglit/hartlaub1947a

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Blog post about Otakar Zachar’s (1899) monograph on the “Cesta spravedliva v alchymii” (“The True Path of Alchemy”)

"Zachar claims that the book was written by the Czech servant of an Italian alchemist called Antonio di Firenze (Florence) and was then hidden somewhere (in Bohemia?). In 1606 (an interesting date!) it was discovered – a hearsay, Zachar admits – by a doctor of medicine (perhaps Czech?) who recognized its value and brought the book to Jerusalem (apparently personally). After the doctor’s death, the book was hidden again (where, in Jerusalem? Or back in Bohemia?) and then rediscovered. Zachar studied the manuscript for several months and copied its text verbatim for his own book (the original text was written on parchment in black ink, with only its chapter headings in red)."

http://ciphermysteries.com/2009/08/31/ot...chemy-book

By Otakar Zachar

Full text in Czech

https://ndk.cz/view/uuid:4181cf10-1f02-1...f3fc9bb22f



https://www.deepl.com/translator

The Chymists Key to Shut, and to Open: Or The True Doctrin of Corruption and Generation: In Ten Brief Aphorismes, Illustrated with Most Plain and Faithful Commentaries Out of the Pure Light of Nature: by that Judicious & Jndustreous Artist Henry Nollius. Published by Eugenius Philalethes

Reading, with music.

https://www.bitchute.com/video/YLpRE9cDsSZv/

Full text. 

In English.

Identified as open source.

https://archive.org/details/alchemy-myst...3/mode/2up