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  Thesis on two Bartolomäus Spranger paintings
Posted by: Paul Ferguson - 10-08-2023, 05:51 PM - Forum: Articles on alchemy - No Replies

"The subject of this study is two paintings by Bartholomeus Spranger titled Glaucus and Scylla (Fig. 1) and Hermaphroditus and the Nymph Salmacis (Fig. 2). Building upon the work of scholars who have argued for a possible alchemical interpretation of at least one of the paintings in the context of its execution for Emperor Rudolf II, this study goes beyond merely suggesting an alchemical connection, and argues that the two paintings, forming a pendant pair, depict two attempts at the alchemist’s magnum opus—one a failure, the other a success."

Peter Kos

https://digitalcommons.lindenwood.edu/cg...ext=theses

   

   

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  Review of Meredith Ray's Daughters of Alchemy
Posted by: Paul Ferguson - 10-08-2023, 05:42 PM - Forum: Reviews and book notices - Replies (1)

https://jps.library.utoronto.ca/index.ph...6400/19587

https://www.amazon.com/Daughters-Alchemy...0674504232

   

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  For Sale: Maier's Chymisches Cabinet
Posted by: Paul Ferguson - 10-08-2023, 05:38 PM - Forum: Alchemy texts - No Replies

Using the same Merian engravings created for the 1617 original printing (entitled "Atalanta Fugiens"), this is the second edition and the first in German of a work described by Kindlers as "indisputably the most beautiful, the strangest and most inventive work of 17th century esoteric alchemy." 

https://www.pirages.com/pages/books/ST16...sinnreiche

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  Video: Furnace and Fugue: An Alchemical Happy Hour
Posted by: Paul Ferguson - 10-08-2023, 05:31 PM - Forum: Articles on alchemy - No Replies

"Written by alchemist Michael Maier in 1618, Atalanta Fugiens reinterprets Ovid’s legend of Atalanta as an alchemical allegory in a series of fifty emblems. This remarkable book has recently been reimagined in multimedia form as Furnace and Fugue, a digital critical edition that allows contemporary readers to hear, see, manipulate, and investigate Atalanta Fugiens in ways that were impossible to realize in full before now. How was Atalanta Fugiens imagined by its 17th-century author and reimagined in Furnace and Fugue? What secrets are unlocked when we look at an old book in a new way? These are just some of the topics we tackled during our Alchemical Happy Hour on October 29, 2020."

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8YytO_Fm3yM

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  William Newman: the Problem of Alchemy
Posted by: Paul Ferguson - 10-08-2023, 05:29 PM - Forum: Articles on alchemy - No Replies

"While Isaac Newton’s status as one of the very greatest of modern scientists has never been in question, some scientists and scholars have worried that his pursuits were at times antithetical to the standards of untainted reason commonly associated with science. Concerns about Newton’s commitment to rational inquiry in his study of nature were first made widely public in the middle of the twentieth century, after the economist and Newton aficionado John Maynard Keynes had acquired at auction a large number of Newton’s papers dealing with alchemy."

https://www.thenewatlantis.com/publicati...of-alchemy

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  Dissertation: Ovid's Metamorphoses and the Scientific Revolution
Posted by: Paul Ferguson - 10-08-2023, 05:26 PM - Forum: Articles on alchemy - No Replies

" Focussing on astrology, natural magic and alchemy, and their modern counterparts, astronomy, experimental science and chemistry, the dissertation shows that the reception of Ovid in these domains exhibits a complex interplay of rejection and appropriation, both within and between different philosophers, which replays the dynamics of the reception of fiction exposed within the original poem. Ovid’s poem thus functioned historically as a crucial site for debate about the role of fiction in scientific method, and affords valuable insights into disputes between realist and anti-realist philosophers of science that continue to generate controversy."

Samuel Galson

https://dataspace.princeton.edu/handle/8...10k225d47t

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  Tom Willard: Ovid and the Alchemists
Posted by: Paul Ferguson - 10-08-2023, 05:22 PM - Forum: Articles on alchemy - No Replies

"Of Ovid’s many faces during the late Middle Ages and early modern erasurely the strangest is that of the alchemical philosopher: the authority onmetamorphosis whose words and stories can guide the aspiring adept."

https://www.academia.edu/168303/_Ovid_an...lchemists_

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  Jean Dubuis
Posted by: Paul Ferguson - 10-08-2023, 11:38 AM - Forum: Alchemy texts - No Replies

Jean Dubuis (April 29, 1919 – April 6, 2010) was a renowned 20th-century French esotericist, qabalist, and alchemist.

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



Some of his works are available here:

https://archive.org/search?query=%22jean+dubuis%22


and from a Yandex Disk here:

https://gorish.blogspot.com/2015/02/jean...ourse.html


I have no idea what the copyright status is of this material.

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  Thesis: Giordano Bruno and the Creation of Magical Images
Posted by: Paul Ferguson - 10-07-2023, 09:13 PM - Forum: Articles on alchemy - No Replies

Michael Storch

"The creation and manipulation of infinite images is central to Bruno' s thought, but to the best of my knowledge, this has never been properly treated before. This
project is a departure from much of the current scholarship on Bruno which has focused on his contribution to scientific thought, and downplayed or ignored the
Hermetic and magical elements which pervade his work. Each chapter deals with different works of Bruno, and different aspects of his philosophy, and each is rooted
in the larger project of uncovering the role, meaning, and application of images in Bruno' s thought."

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https://escholarship.mcgill.ca/concern/theses/5712mc08m

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  Rhode Island: the John Dee Tower?
Posted by: Paul Ferguson - 10-07-2023, 09:01 PM - Forum: Articles on alchemy - No Replies

"The 28-foot tall stone tower which still stands today in Touro Park, in Newport, Rhode Island has baffled historians for generations. I have boldly renamed it the John Dee Tower because (I assert), he was the architect who designed it."

Free book by Jim Egan with many alchemical references.

http://www.newporttowermuseum.com/resour...-Tower.pdf


   

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