Anna Zieglerin and the Lion’s Blood: Alchemy and End Times in Reformation Germany. By Tara Nummedal. Haney Foundation Series. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2019. Pp. xii+288. $49.95.

"In 1573, the alchemist Anna Zieglerin gave her patron, the Duke of Braunschweig-Wolfenbüttel, the recipe for an extraordinary substance she called the lion's blood. She claimed that this golden oil could stimulate the growth of plants, create gemstones, transform lead into the coveted philosophers' stone—and would serve a critical role in preparing for the Last Days."


https://www.amazon.com/Anna-Zieglerin-Li...0812250893

By Tara E. Nummedal

"Drawing on criminal trial records, contracts, laboratory inventories, satires, and vernacular alchemical treatises, Alchemy and Authority in the Holy Roman Empire situates the everyday alchemists, largely invisible to modern scholars until now, at the center of the development of early modern science and commerce."

https://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0226608565

The frontispiece in Tractatus chymicus antiquissimus et vere aureus, in quo spectare licet fundamenta ferae chymiae, nec non figuram verissimam hermeticam, et facillimam viam ad medicinam universalem, cum curiosis quatuor epistolis cuiusdam adepti, in lucem datus ab uno verae chymiae amatore. Augustae Vind.: apud David Reymund Mertz, et Joann Jacob Mayer, 1721.
 

   


was reused in  Die sieben heiligen grundsaeulen der ewigkeit und zeit. In deutlichen sinnbildern, zum besten aller weisheit suchenden... Nebst dem Brunnen der weisheit und erkenntniss der Natur [Anonymus von Schwarzfuss]. Den Grundsätzen der wahren Alchemie. Vier merkwürdigen Briefen eines Adepten. Herausgegeben von AdaMah Booz. Leipzig, 1783.


   

THE PORTRAIT OF A MEDIEVAL ALCHEMIST WITH SYMBOLS OF ELEMENTS IMITATING CREATION

by S. MAHDIHASSAN


https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/article...L-8-44.pdf

Text just about comprehensible.



Line engraving by L. Tinti

   

"The author or editor of more than 50 works of fiction and nonfiction, Michael Wilding is perhaps best known to aficionados of the western mystery tradition as the author of the documentary tour de force Raising Spirits, Making Gold and Swapping Wives: The True Adventures of Dr John Dee & Sir Edward Kelly."

http://www.jwmt.org/v3n24/burns.html

https://www.amazon.co.uk/Raising-Spirits...1899549315

By Alison M. Roberts

"When alchemy emerged in Roman Egypt, early adepts knew their wisdom came from the Egyptian temples. Hathor's Alchemy unearths this transformational lost knowledge,"

https://northgatepublishers.co.uk/

https://gazellebookservices.co.uk/produc...0952423331

   

By Edmund Brehm

From Ambix.

http://www.ascension-research.org/Roger_...chemy.html

"In August 2020, I purchased a copy of Ernst Rosenbohm’s 1951 publication Kölnisch Wasser (“Eau de Cologne”) from an antiquarian online bookseller near Frankfurt. The scientific literature on perfumes and Eau de Cologne that I read for my current research project on the “Olfactories of Hygiene” is rather limited, so I’m quite excited when I discover what looks like a thorough study on the topic..."


https://culthygiene.hypotheses.org/203

Review Essays of Academic, Professional & Technical Books in the Humanities & Sciences


https://wordtrade.com/philosophy/renaiss...ircher.htm

http://www.johndee.org/calder/html/TOC.html