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  Fragments of Graeco-Egyptian Alchemy in Arabic Compendia
Posted by: Paul Ferguson - 06-10-2023, 06:22 PM - Forum: Articles on alchemy - No Replies

By Matteo Martelli.

From Ambix.

"Translation played a vital role in the development and transfer of alchemy in Antiquity and the Early Middle Ages. Since its origins in Graeco-Roman
Egypt, alchemy was encapsulated in Greek texts which allegedly relied on Persian or Egyptian sources. Later, a variety of Greek and Byzantine writings
were translated into Syriac and Arabic, and these translations were in turn fragmented and disseminated in later Arabic compendia. This paper will first
review the main phases of this historical process of transmission of alchemy from one language and culture to another. Second, this process
will be examined using two significant case studies: a close analysis of various quotations from Graeco-Egyptian authors (Pseudo-Democritus,
Zosimus of Panopolis, and Synesius) as presented in two Arabic dialogues on alchemy, The Tome of Images and The Dialogue between Āras and the King
Caesar. These sources demonstrate some of the concrete textual realities that underlie general patterns of translation and reception."

https://tinyurl.com/y9r88dan

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  Moon Sisters: Women in Alchemical Imagery
Posted by: Paul Ferguson - 06-10-2023, 06:18 PM - Forum: Alchemical symbolism and imagery - No Replies

Various books and articles by M. E. Warlick:

https://portfolio.du.edu/mwarlick/page/65131

The Moon Sisters paper is under "The Golden Egg, 2002"

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  Alchemy and Symbolism in the Work of Carlos Estevez
Posted by: Paul Ferguson - 06-10-2023, 06:14 PM - Forum: Alchemical symbolism and imagery - No Replies

Thesis by Irina Leyva-Perez.

https://digitalcommons.fiu.edu/cgi/viewc...ontext=etd

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carlos_Est...8artist%29

   

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  Alchemical Reference in Antony and Cleopatra
Posted by: Paul Ferguson - 06-10-2023, 06:07 PM - Forum: Articles on alchemy - No Replies

Short paper by Lyndall Abraham:

https://core.ac.uk/download/pdf/229391399.pdf

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  Anybook
Posted by: Paul Ferguson - 06-08-2023, 09:57 PM - Forum: Reviews and book notices - No Replies

Very good source of secondhand academic books:

https://www.anybook.biz

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  The Book of Aquarius
Posted by: Paul Ferguson - 06-08-2023, 09:42 PM - Forum: Reviews and book notices - No Replies

Shortish (165 pages)  downloadable rights-free 'how to do alchemy' book by an anonymous author, with many quotations from alchemical texts:

https://archive.org/details/TheBookofAquarius/mode/2up

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  Alchemical hermaphrodites
Posted by: Paul Ferguson - 06-08-2023, 09:35 PM - Forum: Alchemical symbolism and imagery - Replies (1)

Multilingual website - these pages only in German.


https://intersex.hypotheses.org/2600

https://intersex.hypotheses.org/2592


https://www.deepl.com/translator


   

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  Russian Alchemical Fraternity
Posted by: Paul Ferguson - 06-08-2023, 09:23 PM - Forum: News - Meeting - Events - No Replies

Well worth exploring:

https://alchemyfraternitas.ru/

https://www.deepl.com/translator

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  Alchemy in Russian Literature
Posted by: Paul Ferguson - 06-08-2023, 09:13 PM - Forum: Articles on alchemy - No Replies

"This article is devoted to the subject of alchemy in Russian literature, investigating which
writers were interested in it and how it was developed in Russia. Prominent Russian authors’
poetic and prosaic writings have been perused throughout the research paper and it is believed
that the images of alchemists portrayed by Alexander Pushkin, Nikolai Gogol, Alexander
Herzen, Nikolai Ogarev, Alexei Tolstoy, and Mikhail Bulgakov were of European origin."



http://dspace.khazar.org/bitstream/20.50...rature.pdf

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  Theophan Prokopovych
Posted by: Paul Ferguson - 06-08-2023, 06:05 PM - Forum: Articles on alchemy - No Replies

"The study aims to identify and consider the components of the European alchemical and astrological tradition in early modern Ukrainian science on the materials of scientific and pedagogical activities of Theophan Prokopovych (other spellings: Theophanes Prokopowicz, Feofan Prokopovich, 1677–1736), a Ukrainian scientist and church figure of the High Baroque era; further coverage of his role in the history of Ukrainian science."

http://skhid.kubg.edu.ua/article/view/248162/246952

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