By Shih-shan Susan Huang 黃士珊

"This article presents Daoist visual representations of body and cosmos, drawing extensively on illustrations and diagrams from texts preserved in the Ming‑ dynasty Daoist Canon. To examine how the Daoist perception of body and cos‑ mos unfolded over time, I discuss images of four types: body gods, imaginary  journeys to stars, body souls/worms, and the body transformed in internal al‑ chemy—the first two in JDS 3 (2010), the next two here."

https://www.academia.edu/1851994/_Daoist...2011_33_64

"Dr Peter Wothers gave a fascinating talk on pioneering science writer Jane Marcet at our annual alumni lecture on 11 February. Marcet’s most well-known work is Conversations on Chemistry, Intended More Especially for the Female Sex which was first published anonymously in 1805. Peter led viewers through some highlights of this early science textbook, including Marcet’s correspondence with Michael Faraday, who thought very highly of her scientific abilities. Peter showed how the book needed to be updated in a series of later editions, as more elements were discovered or renamed."

https://www.ch.cam.ac.uk/news/conversati...ni-lecture

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

The magic of transformation: a comparative analysis of alchemy in Harry Potter and its real-world chemistry roots

By Athina Stavroulaki, Department of Chemistry, University of Crete and Foundation for Research and Technology — Hellas (FORTH-IESL), Heraklion, Greece.

From the Journal of Geek [sic] Studies

https://jgeekstudies.org/2023/09/17/the-...try-roots/

Plaisance, Christopher A. "Turris Philosophorum: On the Alchemical Iconography of the Tower." In Alchemical Traditions: From Antiquity to the Avante-Garde, 325–354, ed. Aaron Cheak. Melbourne: Numen Books, 2013.


"Throughout alchemical tracts from the fifteenth century onward, one of the more commonly employed emblems was that of the tower. At times, these towers appear to be full-sized structures surrounded by, or containing, people; at others, they appear as miniature castles set within the alchemist's laboratory. What is it that links these depictions of realistically proportioned towers with their diminutive counterparts? What is the origin of this image, and what did it symbolize? The purpose of this paper is to investigate the image of the tower as an alchemical icon — to inquire into its genesis and significance. To accomplish this, we begin with a brief overview of the history and doxography of the alchemical tradition, continue into a discussion on the importance of laboratory equipment within the context of alchemical work, focus our inquiry into the athanor furnace, and conclude with an analysis of the iconography of the tower within the context of the previous sections."

http://www.philologia.io/pages/alchemy.html

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

   

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christian_...t_Dietrich

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Jenny Rampling.

John Dee and the alchemists: Practising and promoting English alchemy in the Holy Roman Empire.

This paper investigates John Dee’s relationship with two kinds of alchemist: the authorities whose works he read, and the contemporary practitioners with whom he exchanged texts and ideas.


https://www.academia.edu/3709510/John_De...man_Empire

John Dee and Prospero: Alchemy, Angels, and Empire in The Tempest

Iovan Stefanov
University of Windsor


"For John Dee (1527-1609), like many others in the sixteenth century, the divide between politics, science, and the occult was permeable. At the height of Dee’s career, he had
assembled the largest private library in England and built bibliographic networks of like-minded intellectuals from lending and sales. His consultations varied from explanations
of Euclidean geometry for sailors to providing magical advice for Elizabeth I and other European monarchs. Dee is simultaneously important to both early modern science and
esoterica. The aim of this thesis is to illuminate the ways in which his politics, his colonial projects, and his occult thought underwrites Shakespeare's character Prospero in
The Tempest."


https://scholar.uwindsor.ca/cgi/viewcont...ontext=etd

An alchemical interpretation of the House of Alma episode in Edmund Spenser's The Faerie Queene

by Ivan-Constantin Hekimian, The American University in Cairo AUC


https://fount.aucegypt.edu/retro_etds/421/