"For the alchemists, the alembic or vessel is compared to Noah’s Ark and the flood is a symbol of the dissolution and putrefaction of the matter of the stone in the nigredo stage of the Great Work. For ex: in the engravings of Johann Mylius (1585-1630) the dissolution of the body takes 150 days (the flood lasted 150 days: Gen, 6,7, 8) and the Ark can be seen sailing on the waters."

https://weather.hypotheses.org/251

'Andrei Vinius (1641-1716) and Interest in Western Esotericism in Early Modern Russia'

Robert Collis


"This article examines the career of Andrei Andreevich Vinius (1641-1716), a Russian of Frisian origins, who was a prominent official at the tsarist court for half a century between the 1660s and the 1710s."

https://www.academia.edu/1554408/Andrei_...ern_Russia

"This essay argues that we should consider perceptions of and associations with alchemical language and practices in academic and artisanal as well
as popular culture in the Netherlands in order to gain a better understanding of the supposed transformation of alchemy into chemistry in this region. A fresh
view on the sites of Dutch chemistry around 1700 is provided, demonstrating that the unique sociopolitical and geological characteristics of the Low Countries
meant that the process of the “disappearance” of alchemy was distinctly different from that in the neighboring German lands. Finally, the essay shows that, as
Lawrence M. Principe has previously suggested, the rhetoric with which Herman Boerhaave and other Dutch academics rejected the “excesses of chemistry” was
less empirically than morally and socially motivated."



https://dspace.library.uu.nl/handle/1874/375899

Review of Emblems and Alchemy, by Alison Adams & Stanton J. Linden, eds.

by Russell J. Ganim
University of Nebraska-Lincoln



"Combining revived interest in both the emblem and alchemy, this volume is the third in a series of works on emblem studies published by the French Department at the University of Glasgow. Its ten essays, divided among three major categories entitled, “A Theoretical Perspectives”, “The English Alchemists”, and “Continental Manifestations”, stress inter disciplinarity as they explore the relationships between text, image, and alchemical practice. Broad in scope but detailed in its analyses, the compendium raises several intriguing questions about the correspondence between literature, art, and pseudo-science. Despite the diversity of its topics, the collection is often surprisingly unified in its discussion of authors, motifs, and themes. With the exception of some gaps in argumentation, Emblems and Alchemy makes a significant contribution not only to the field of emblematics, but to early modern studies."


https://digitalcommons.unl.edu/cgi/viewc...langfrench

"The second half of the 16th century is usually called "the golden age of alchemy". Beside Emperor Rudolf II. von Habsburg, it was Wilhelm von Rosenberg who became the most important Maecenas of the hermetic sciences, especially of alchemy. Around the House of Rosenberg, in fact, arose a second center of hermetic and alchemic activity."


https://encyklopedie.ckrumlov.cz/en/mest...or_alchym/

A look at the history of alchemy and its influence on science:

https://play.acast.com/s/historyofalchemy

https://shows.acast.com/historyofalchemy

This rather engaging engraved frontispiece is found in 

Hermann Fictuld
 
Hermetischer Triumph-bogen, auf zweyen Wunder-Säulen der grossen und kleinen Welt bevestiget; Das ist: Zwey Tractätlein von der wahren und einigen Weisheit zu des Menschen zeitlichem und ewigem Wohlseyn. Das erste, genannt Cabbala Mystica Naturæ, handelnd von dem Feurigen Liebes-Saltze der göttlichen Barmhertzigkeit, sonst gennant Lapis Philosophorum: Und das zweyte, Occulta Occultissime, handelnd von der ersten Materia Lapidis Philosophorum, und von dem Menschen, soderlich aber von ihrer Reinigung, um sie zu dem Endzweck der Weisheit zu befördern. Das erstemal zum Druck herausgegeben von H[ermann] F[ictuld.] 1741.

It contains two interesting texts, the first explores the cabalistic and alchemical imagery in the conventional signs for the numerals.

We can analyse the image as:-

An arch containing the seven planets and the 12 signs of the zodiac, is supported by two square columns. On the top of the left column a black crow perches, while on the right a white swan is seen. The two columns are each divided into five section each depicting items of alchemical apparatus, alembics, furnaces, retorts, pelican flasks, crucibles, etc. Between the columns there is a coat of arms with the symbols of sun and moon, water and fire, sulphur and mercury. On the floor below are two globes, one labelled macrocosmus and the other microcosmus.

   

The Alchymist producing an Aetherial Representation

1796 satirical artwork by James Gillray showing prime minister William Pitt (1759-1806) using a pair of bellows in the shape of a crown to heat a glass distillation vessel containing Parliament. In the steam from the vessel are his subjects prostrating before him. Below the furnace is a pile of gold coins. Note the wildlife suspended from the ceiling.

   

Tim Harding

"It has been claimed by some writers that alchemy was a precursor to chemistry, or that chemistry ‘evolved’ from alchemy. I think this is wrong. Chemistry no more evolved from alchemy than astronomy evolved from astrology. Alchemy was a mystical pseudoscience like astrology, rather than being a protoscience of chemistry."

https://www.academia.edu/38355615/The_Tr..._Chemistry

https://www.exeter.ac.uk/study/postgradu...t-science/

https://www.breitbart.com/europe/2023/10...t-science/