Thanks to its seemingly supernatural appearance with the nocturnal dew, the alchemists assigned an elevated role to nostoc, calling it “the water of the equinoxes.”


See 'Episode 88: Electric Fairy Rings and the Slime from Space' here:

https://www.boneandsickle.com/tag/folk-belief/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nostoc

Étudiant «The Therapeutical Value of Alchemical Language», dans une conférence donnée à Rome en 1977, publiée dans Dragonflies en 1978.

https://doi.org/10.7202/1103200ar


https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Hillman

This article features two glossaries of the Latin words and abbreviations in the diaries of John Ward, Folger MS V.a.284 -299. The words are all associated with medical receipts. At the bottom of the article are links to a cribsheet for John Ward's handwriting, several sites that depict alchemical symbols, and a Greek keyboard. John Ward was the vicar of Stratford-upon-Avon from 1662 to 1681. The Folger Shakespeare Library has 16 of his 17 diaries.


https://folgerpedia.folger.edu/John_Ward%27s_Latin

See also:

https://wellcomecollection.org/works/j2hpv4r7

"What did it mean to believe in alchemy in early modern England? In this book, Bruce Janacek considers alchemical beliefs in the context of the writings of Thomas Tymme, Robert Fludd, Francis Bacon, Sir Kenelm Digby, and Elias Ashmole."

E-book forthcoming:

https://www.degruyter.com/document/isbn/...ml?lang=de

"George Starkey—chymistry tutor to Robert Boyle, author of immensely popular alchemical treatises, and probably early America's most important scientist—reveals in these pages the daily laboratory experimentation of a seventeenth-century alchemist.The editors present in this volume transcriptions of Starkey's texts, their translations, and valuable commentary for the modern reader. Dispelling the myth that alchemy was an irrational enterprise, this remarkable collection of laboratory notebooks and correspondence reveals the otherwise hidden methodologies of one of the seventeenth century's most influential alchemists."

https://www.perlego.com/book/1975024/alc...ndence-pdf

"There is a copy of Lambspring's Book in the original German language, with some parts in Latin, dating from 1556. It includes a posthumous dedication to Hermannus Marsoui Ecclesiae Doreptensis superintendens. This alchemical manuscript is in the Central Library of Zurich in Switzerland." - Wiki.

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https://www.e-manuscripta.ch/zuz/doi/10....ripta-6275

Facsimile available from Ziereis here:

https://www.facsimiles.com/contact/alche...ehrgedicht

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Example- Jung's Psychology and Alchemy:

https://bk3w.bookey.app/book/psychology-and-alchemy

"The year was 1789 when an old man shoveled dirt onto two hefty barrels of silver, hidden away in a cave on the roaring banks of the Swift River in Massachusetts. He needed to bury his treasure, because he had procured it by means that were considered illegal and, at one point, mystical. This old man was Glazier Wheeler, once a blacksmith and engraver, but the town of Dana knew him as 'the alchemist'."


https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/al...terfeiting

"They started with four: earth, air, fire, and water. From these basics, they sought to understand the essential ingredients of the world. Those who could see further, those who understood that the four were just the beginning, were the last sorcerers – and the world's first chemists."

By Richard Morris.

Ebook or read for free on-line:

https://nap.nationalacademies.org/catalo...e-periodic

"From the early days of the Roman Empire through to the early 1700s, why did some of the most creative minds turn to alchemy? The search for how to make gold through this experimental practice will have been, without doubt, very alluring. But what else did people hope to discover? This is the story of the people, the books, the controversies and the dangers surrounding the secretive art of alchemy and the search for truth explored through the history of ideas, philosophy and religion. What emerges is a surprising story about the many inter-weaving influences, heresies and orthodoxies that shaped Western Philosophy and Science."


https://tinyurl.com/bduandjn

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