"This volume is the fourth in the series ‘Leipzig Explorations in Literature and Culture’. Several of the titles that have appeared under this rubric have been monographic, while one other, the excellent Lost Worlds and Mad Elephants: Literature, Science and Technology 1700-1990, examined the perennial but still-urgent issue concerning the correspondences and dissonances that exist between literature and science. To a certain extent, The Golden Egg does something similar to that book, though the debate over the relationship between the ‘two cultures’ is given an extra dimension here by taking as its focus alchemy, which is notoriously irreducible to one or the other – and that is where its chief interest lies today."

Alexandra Lembert & Elmar Schenkel (eds.), The Golden Egg: Alchemy in Art and Literature, Berlin & Cambridge, MA, Galda & Wilch Verlag, 2002, 231 pp. [ISBN 3-931397-40-8 and 1-931255-10-5]

https://www.hyle.org/journal/issues/9-2/...kinson.htm

https://www.abebooks.com/9783931397401/G...397408/plp

"Autograph manuscript in Latin 8 pp recto and verso, on two bifolia (watermarked arms of London), with wrappers made up from the same stock 4to (284 x 182 mm), [1690s]
Closely written in ink with numerous deletions and supralinear emendations, approximately 45 lines per page totaling roughly 4000 words.


"Opus Galli Anonymi contains excerpts from an unidentified work by an unknown French author. The ideas resemble those in mid-14th century texts (such as Clavicula “the little key”) ascribed, falsely, to Raymond Llull."

https://digital.library.illinois.edu/ite...67%2C10776

Be sure to click on 'Supplementary Document' at the bottom-left of the image for further information about Newton and his interest in alchemy.

Cold light in the painting ‘Group portrait in the Chemist’s House’.

by Alicja Rafalska-Lasocha, Wieslaw Lasocha, Anna Jasinska

"In 2005 the Jagiellonian University Museum mounted the exhibition Uczony i jego pracownia / The Scholar and His Study, which was opened from 11th May to 28th August. Among the paintings borrowed from numerous museums in Poland, and scientific instruments chiefly from the collections of the Jagiellonian University Museum, was a picture by a 17th century Dutch artist, Cornelis de Man. It is the property of the National Museum in Warsaw, on permanent display in the Gallery of Foreign Paintings... Alchemists  treated  light  as  a  symbol  of  the  spirit  and  were particularly interested in the light imprisoned in matter."

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"The Studiolo is actually divided into two parts – a study proper and an alchemical laboratory, the latter being a sort of wunderkammer in which Francesco I, who had little taste for politics, often took refuge. It is said that the prince would here engage in alchemical experiments or else delight in his collection of rare objects, all within a space that was decorated with a series of large format paintings from his collection."

Jen Smith

https://medmeanderings.com.au/history/th...de-medici/


Adapted from Secret Florence by Niccolo Rinaldi, available to borrow here:

https://archive.org/details/secretflorence0000rina_x1b3

Beyond patronage: Michael Sendivogius and the meanings of success in alchemy

https://www.academia.edu/977421/Beyond_p...in_alchemy

See also the Related Papers.

Paul Kiritsis

Part One:
https://paulkiritsis.net/down-the-rabbit...-part-one/

"The name Franz Anton Mesmer (1734-1815) is often evoked with respect to the evolutionary history of hypnosis. In actual fact he’s something of an ancillary pioneer, having stumbled upon the technique completely by chance. But save for this remarkable discovery he was also responsible for the foundation of a philosophical system that would facilitate the mid-nineteenth century emergence of spiritual or “psychical” alchemy, an innovative breed of esoteric inquiry which went on to dominate twentieth century hermeneutics and contemporary “occult” interpretations of the Hermetic Art."


Part Two:
https://paulkiritsis.net/down-the-rabbit...-part-two/

"Englishwoman Mary Anne South (1817-1910) was a leading figure in the reinvigoration of the spiritual interpretation of alchemy during a Victorian era where every layperson seemed to be captivated by the occult."

Swiss professional photographer Boissonnas (1858-1946) would sometimes construct elaborate sets in his studio and create photographs after famous paintings.  This study of Faust in his laboratory is done in the style of a famous Rembrandt etching.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fr%C3%A9d%...Boissonnas

   

"The Order is the only novel I’ve written thus far to touch on themes of alchemy, the old science of transmuting elements and coercing the physical world through occult processes. I’d hasten to add that “occult” only means “evil” when it appears on a movie poster. Any good dictionary will tell you that it really suggests something hidden or obscured. As Mairéad learns, there’s not much about The Order that isn’t."

https://www.stevenwilliamrimmer.com/theorder.html


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Establishing the Canon: George Ripley and his Alchemical Sources.

Jennifer Rampling.
 
"George Ripley, Canon of Bridlington (ca. 1415 to ca. 1490) was one ofEngland’s most famous alchemists, whose alchemical opera attracted study and commentary throughout the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries,and were printed and translated both in England and abroad. Yet Ripley’s frequently baffling texts have proved resistant to scholarly interpretation.This paper attempts to unravel some of Ripley’s alchemical theories and practice, firstly by identifying his major sources, and secondly by gauginghis response to these texts."

https://www.academia.edu/3709516/Establi...al_Sources

Free book for kids.

David Katz.

http://www.chymist.com/History%20Alchemy.pdf