Thomas A. Doerksen


"This dissertation explores how the European system of knowledge in the sixteenth century transformed into the system of knowledge in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries that we now call science. Via a series of case studies focusing on the theme of fire, it shows that the former system of knowledge was based on immediate experience and participation in natural realities, while the latter, that of science, explicitly turns away from human experience and natural realities and towards its own technologies and instruments. Our line of approach to this problem is to analyze the scientists’ attitudes toward their own tools and toward natural beings. The first case study looks at the attitudes and practices of the sixteenth century alchemist Paracelsus..."

https://ir.lib.uwo.ca/etd/9664/

"The Poetics of Alchemical Engagement: The Allegorical Journey to God in Ripley and Norton after Chaucer"

 Marcelle Muasher Khoury

"Both fifteenth-century alchemical poets, George Ripley and Thomas Norton, perceived themselves to be “Chaucerian” in far deeper ways than has been recognized. They perceived their own work, like Chaucer’s, to join author, reader and pilgrim on an essentially hermeneutical journey to Wisdom, and shared with him a deep concern with the human condition of fragmentation and infinite deferral, which they understood Chaucer to relegate to the interpreter’s confinement within the natural (sensible and semantic) mode of perception."

At Scribd:

https://www.scribd.com/document/40697896...tation-pdf
 

 

"Alongside the flasks and fires in the alchemist’s laboratory lay another tool no less vital to alchemical practice: the written word. For centuries books and manuscripts were the central instrument alchemists used to disseminate their ideas, trials, techniques, and secrets, and these texts reveal both the scientific rigor and the strange beauty of alchemical practice. Books of Secrets: Writing and Reading Alchemy [exhibition from 2014-15] illuminated the important role of the written word in alchemical pursuits by placing the actual books used by alchemists alongside historical artworks portraying their use."

https://vimeo.com/103750875

"The Search for the Alchemical Formula"


"Charles Meer Webb was a 19th Century painter of genre subjects. He was born in London on 16 July 1830 and died in Düsseldorf in early December 1895.

Meer Webb studied in Amsterdam and in Anvers and became a pupil of Camphausen at the Düsseldorf Academy. He worked in Anvers, Clèves and Düsseldorf.

Meer Webb exhibited a number of paintings at the Royal Academy as well as at the British Institution and the Royal Society of Birmingham Artists."



   

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

1) Bader Collection, Milwaukee
2) Prado
3) Budapest

   

   

   

Exploring early modern chymical practices at colonial Jamestown (Virginia) and the Old Ashmolean Museum (Oxford)

Umberto Veronesi

https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10...Thesis.pdf

Matter, Spirit, and Cosmogony: The Context and Meaning of Thomas Vaughan’s Alchemical Vitalism

Adam Heinrich Borrego

University of Missouri-St. Louis


"This study focuses on one of the alchemists of the seventeenth century, the Englishman Thomas Vaughan, showing how his alchemical writings detail, in the religious and
philosophical language of early modern alchemy, the alchemical vitalist conception of matter, and that these works therefore constitute an alchemical natural philosophy."

https://irl.umsl.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi...ext=thesis

Translation and Transformation: Uncovering the Source of Alchemy’s Association with Magic through a Study of its Translation into Latin in the High Medieval Period

Morgan Taylor Greer

Portland State University




https://pdxscholar.library.pdx.edu/cgi/v...norstheses

Thesis (Bristol)

By Anna S T Leendertz-Ford

"It is claimed that alchemy and alchemists/early modern chymists contributed substantially to proto-chemistry in important ways. To a significant degree, sound science was being practised in the Latin West during the seventeenth century, though not all criteria were met consistently across all nations at all times. This thesis will:
(1)Define the criteria for best practice of science (specifically chemistry) using a Wittgensteinian approach;
(2)Examine the level to which such criteria were appreciated and adhered to across a representative sample of chemical practices during the seventeenth century."


https://research-information.bris.ac.uk/...-chemistry

"Experimentation does not seem restricted to technical operations: these writings are themselves experiments that result in elaborate and inventive compositions. I investigate in detail what this shift to a literary interpretation entails for four early alchemical works, namely the Letter from Isis to Horus (Chapter I), the Dialogue of the Philosophers and Cleopatra (Chapter II), On the Letter Omega by Zosimus of Panopolis (Chapter III), and Memoirs 10-12 by the same author (Chapter IV). Each chapter starts with a brief introduction to the work’s dating, transmission, and contents, followed by an analysis of how each writing in question approaches conventional textual forms in both expected and unexpected ways."

F Lopes da Silveira


https://ora.ox.ac.uk/objects/uuid:268397...e4cd64b7c7

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