Paris has been keeping its mysteries for centuries. Some arouse fascination and others spark fantasy. Facts, similarities, and reliable witnesses prove the occurrence of these events. In the coming 6 episodes, scientific and historical investigations are going to unveil the darkest secrets of the City of Lights. Here is the city of Paris as you have never seen it before.


https://www.dailymotion.com/video/x8pjdl7

The Influence of Louvain Teaching on Jan Baptist Van Helmont's Adoption of Paracelsianism and Alchemy

"This article investigates the extent to which Louvain (Leuven) teaching could provide the foundations of a new learning and philosophy that included Paracelsianism and alchemy. The particular lens is through Van Helmont’s studies in Louvain, taking place in the 1590s. It shows that teaching at Louvain had a profound impact on Van Helmont’s thought. The paper further points out that Van Helmont’s learning process did not include only traditional university courses, but also classes at the Jesuit college, and practical learning through Jesuits and artisans."

https://www.academia.edu/108998348/The_I...nd_Alchemy

The research of the DFG-funded project focuses on determining the relationship between pietistic religiosity and alchemical practices as well as theoretical adoptions from speculative alchemy at the Halle Orphanage in the 18th century. One core thesis is that the pharmacy and medicine practised there were more closely connected to medical alchemy in the early modern period than previously assumed.

https://www.francke-halle.de/en/project/...-pietism-1

by Michael Gaudio 

"Michael Maier’s Atalanta fugiens (1618) offers a heady mix of arcane alchemical principles, humanist literary references, and contrapuntal fugues, but it is the volume’s striking copperplate etchings that are most likely to retain a vivid presence in the reader’s imagination long after the book is closed."

https://furnaceandfugue.org/essays/gaudio/

Images from the 2016-2017 exhibition.


https://www.getty.edu/research/exhibitio...s/alchemy/

"In 1707 the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh was the recipient of an important collection of alchemical manuscripts, including a rare and unusual alchemical
document, a Ripley Scroll, most of which had belonged to Sir George Erskine of Innerteil."

https://www.rcpe.ac.uk/journal/issue/jou...per_12.pdf

Uwe Korn

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...in the Writings of Guy de La Brosse (1586-1641)

" The present article focuses on La Brosse's views of advancement of plant alchemy as the source of knowledge of plants. It discusses his adoption of the Paracelsian physician Joseph Du Chesne's (Quercetanus, 1546-1609) distinction between external and internal signature theory, opting firmly for the latter as the basis of true knowledge. The internal character, La Brosse argues, can only be revealed empirically, by fire analysis and the practice of distillation, which can also harness the occult properties of plants for human benefit."

https://www.academia.edu/108998586/Plant...1586_1641_

Unionpedia is a concept map or semantic network organized like an encyclopedia – dictionary. It gives a brief definition of each concept and its relationships.

https://en.unionpedia.org/

https://en.unionpedia.org/Alchemy

"This is the first volume to take a broad historical sweep of the close relation between medicines and poisons in the Western tradition, and their interconnectedness. They are like two ends of a spectrum, for the same natural material can be medicine or poison, depending on the dose, and poisons can be transformed into medicines, while medicines can turn out to be poisons. The book looks at important moments in the history of the relationship between poisons and medicines in European history, from Roman times, with the Greek physician Galen, through the Renaissance and the maverick physician Paracelsus, to the present, when poisons are actively being turned into beneficial medicines."

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https://www.academia.edu/89528431/It_All...an_History