Claudio de Domenico Celentano di Valle Nove (Neapolitan, act. early 17th century)

https://www.getty.edu/research/exhibitio.../aa-6.html

Tracing the development of alchemy in England over four hundred years, from the beginning of the fourteenth century to the end of the seventeenth, Jennifer M. Rampling illuminates the role of alchemical reading and experimental practice in the broader context of national and scientific history. Using new manuscript sources, she shows how practitioners like George Ripley, John Dee, and Edward Kelley, as well as many previously unknown alchemists, devised new practical approaches to alchemy while seeking the support of English monarchs. By reconstructing their alchemical ideas, practices, and disputes, Rampling reveals how English alchemy was continually reinvented over the space of four centuries, resulting in changes to the science itself. In so doing, The Experimental Fire bridges the intellectual history of chemistry and the wider worlds of early modern patronage, medicine, and science.

https://www.amazon.co.uk/Experimental-Fi...0226826546

Not alchemical, but I thought I'd share these beautiful shell and pebble mandalas with you, the work of Jersey artist Jo Logue:

https://www.bailiwickexpress.com/jsy/new...FlKFtLMJhE

'Alchemy is one of the most difficult fields of study in Western Esotericism for a host of reasons: texts are often in ancient languages, practically encoded, full of arcane symbolism and obscure instructions.  One of the most daunting tasks is even where to begin.  There are thousands of alchemical texts spread over 1500 years - which is the best starting point if you want to study alchemy?  In this episode of Esoterica, we argue that the Summa Perfectionis (c. 1310) is the best answer.  We explore the question of the text's authorship, transmission, composition, alchemical theory of substance, change, and, of course, metallic transmutation.'


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CKDbXSgurys

One of the most interesting rare book collections housed at the Bernard Becker Medical Library is the Robert E. Schlueter Paracelsus Collection:

http://beckerexhibits.wustl.edu/paracelsus/index.html

The whole site is well worth exploring:

https://becker.wustl.edu/archives-and-ra...-exhibits/

A picture book that uses alchemical symbols to illustrate questions of good and evil.

https://archive.org/details/emblematanovadas00frie

http://bibliodyssey.blogspot.com/2011/08...-nova.html

https://veiledmarket.com/product/t-shirt...nd-skulls/


Engraving by Jacob(us) de Zetter.

   

ALCHEMY, Joseph Beuys, Anselm Kiefer, Sigmar Polke, Robert Rauschenberg, Sturtevant, Emilio Vedova, Andy Warhol, 26th May—29th July 2023 Opening Thursday 25th May 6—8pm, Thaddaeus Ropac, London Ely House, 37 Dover Street, London, W1S 4NJ

Bringing together major works by some of the most influential European and American artists of the post-war and contemporary periods, Alchemy examines the enduring fascination with material transformation and alchemical thinking in artmaking. The group exhibition features works by artists who have engaged with alchemical ideas at key moments in their practice, including Joseph Beuys, Anselm Kiefer, Sigmar Polke, Robert Rauschenberg, Sturtevant, Emilio Vedova and Andy Warhol. Assembling a group of art-historically significant works, including many shown for the first time in the UK, the exhibition highlights how ideas of material, artistic and philosophical transmutation both inform and are redefined by, these pioneers of art.

https://fadmagazine.com/2023/05/04/josep...l-alchemy/

Penn Library's Library's LJS 500 - Liber mirabilium. (Video Orientation)


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D1S988pq3Ho

Paleographical Approaches to Determining the Authenticity of Medieval Alchemical Manuscripts

Meagen Allen

"Medieval alchemical manuscripts can present numerous problems for the researcher. One of the most pressing is the authenticity of a given manuscript. In this talk, I will present a case study – the questionable authenticity of a work often attributed to Roger Bacon – the Epistola de secretis operibus artis et naturae et de nullitate magiae. This work, which consists of 11 chapters, supposedly details Bacon’s thoughts on the ability of art to perfect nature in many forms, including the creation of machines, the prolongation of human life, and, of course, the creation of the philosophers’ egg and the ability of man to transmute metals. Numerous arguments have been provided for its provenance. I will describe the paleographical approaches that I have taken in examining the manuscripts to argue that there is no overwhelming reason to discount its authenticity, and that for the present, it should continue to remain a part of Bacon’s oeuvre."

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5AtmMdwze8g

"How can we account, in a rigorous way, for alchemy's ubiquity? We think of alchemy as the transformation of a base material (usually lead) into gold, but "alchemy" is a word in wide circulation in everyday life, often called upon to fulfill a metaphoric duty as the magical transformation of materials. Almost every culture and time has had some form of alchemy. This book looks at alchemy, not at any one particular instance along the historical timeline, not as a practice or theory, not as a mode of redemption, but as a theoretical problem, linked to real gold and real production in the world."

https://www.sup.org/books/title/?id=16330