Full text of Part II on Modern Transmutations

https://newenergytimes.com/v2/books/2016...Nelson.pdf



Earlier version of the entire text at Adam's website:

https://www.alchemywebsite.com/nelson_contents.html

The Mixed Blessings of Pragmatism. Jean-Baptiste Dumas and the (Al)chemical Quest for Metallic Transmutation

Leonardo Anatrini

"There  were  at  least  three  prerequisites  for  the  transmutability  of  metals  to  become  once  again  a  scientifically  acceptable  subject  of  research  from  the  1810s:  new  hypotheses  concerning  the  mutual  reducibility  of  certain  elements,  such  as  those  of  integer  multiples  and  protyle  put  forward  by  the  British  chemist  and  physician  Wil-liam  Prout;  the  experimental  confirmation  that  chemical  compounds  with  the  same  percentage  composition  could  be  substances  with  very  different  properties,  i.e.  the  discovery  of  isomerism  and  allotropy;  the  comparison  between  metals  and  compound  radicals  of  organic  chemistry.  This  paper  aims  at  illustrating  how  these  premises  were  exploited  by  Jean-Baptiste  Dumas,  one  of  the  leading  French  chemists  of  the  19th  cen-tury, to reintroduce in the chemical discourse the alchemical topic of transmutation."


https://riviste.fupress.net/index.php/su.../2169/1547

"Alchemy.” To most people, the word stirs up a vision of medieval conjurors experimenting with ways of turning base metals into gold. Nothing could be further from the truth,
says Lawrence M. Principe, the 21st annual lecturer in the series hosted by the Dibner Library of the History of Science and Technology of the Smithsonian Libraries. In this highly
readable essay expanded from his lecture, Dr. Principe traces the fascination of practitioners, theorists, and scientists with the idea of transmutation of base metals from earliest
times, invigorated again in the 19th and early 20th centuries. He highlights “the successive making-up and breaking-up of alchemy and chemistry,” since both were stimulated
by “the desire to understand and to control matter and its transformations."

https://library.si.edu/sites/default/fil...efinal.pdf

Jennifer O'Meara.


ALCHEMISTS, EPICS, AND HEROES: THE RHETORICAL CONSTRUCTION OF THE SEVENTEENTH CENTURY EXPERIMENTAL PHILOSOPHER

"This dissertation contributes to the cultural study of the history of science by examining the rhetorical construction of seventeenth century natural
philosophy and natural philosophers in a literary context. I offer as the heart of my study an original interpretation of Thomas Sprat’s History of the Royal Society
as a prose epic...The chapters surrounding my reading of the History illustrate two very different rhetorical strategies that were used to explain and legitimize the character of the new experimentalist. The first strategy attempted to use comparisons and contrasts between the experimentalist and the alchemist."


https://core.ac.uk/download/pdf/158304481.pdf

"Archaeologists at sites in Ribe, a Danish trading port in southwest Jutland, have published a new study in Archaeological and Anthropological Sciences related to the evolution of metalwork skills and craftsmanship of early Viking craftspeople in Denmark in the 8th and 9th centuries. Founded in the early 8 th century during the Germanic Iron Age, Ribe is the oldest extant town in Scandinavia. Having analyzed a hoard of alchemical tools discovered there, they have uncovered a hitherto unknown secrets about the evolution of metallurgy at the dawn of the Viking Age."

https://www.ancient-origins.net/news-his...ts-0015232

Another chapter from the book Western Esotericism in Scandinavia.

https://www.researchgate.net/publication...in_Finland

Alchemy of the Ancient Goths: Johannes Bureus’ Search for the Lost Wisdom of Scandinavia

Håkan Håkansson
Lund University Library


The Swedish polymath Johannes Bureus (1568–1652), Royal Librarian and close friend of King Gustavus Adolphus, is primarily known as an exponent of early modern
“Gothicism,” i.e., the idea that the ancient Goths of Scandinavia were the first rulers of Europe and Sweden the true origin of Western culture. But Bureus was also an avid
reader of alchemical literature, as well as a practising alchemist"


https://lucris.lub.lu.se/ws/portalfiles/...809108.pdf

Carl-Michael Edenborg.

Chapter from Western Esotericism in Scandinavia, Brill; 2016.

https://www.academia.edu/43997694/Alchemy_in_Sweden

Collection of 30 videos:

https://www.youtube.com/SocietyforHistor...dChemistry

Short article on Abu Bakr Muhammad Ibn Zakariya Al Razi, born 865.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6074295/