by Julian Paulus.

Forgery and Early Modern Alchemy, Medicine and Natural Philosophy

 


E-Book ISBN: 9789004503380 Publisher: Brill Print Publication Date: 25 Nov 2021

Some free material.

https://brill.com/display/book/978900450...anguage=en

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/article...13/?page=1

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"This article discusses a Latin manuscript that can be found in the Jan Baptist Van Helmont (1579-1644) archives in Mechelen (Malines), Belgium. The manuscript bears no author and no title, and begins with the words 'Exterior homo', hence being referred by this provisional title in the analysis. Ecclesiastical prosecutors investigating Van Helmont for heresy in 1634 considered that it was written by him, but this was vehemently denied by the Flemish physician."

Hedesan, full text.

https://europepmc.org/article/PMC/PMC4103403

"Cuneiform texts with technical procedures for making colored glass, perfumes, dyeing wool, tanning leather, and metal patination, constitute among the earliest known textual records in the history of chemistry."

https://alchemeast.eu/cuneiform-texts/

"Dubbed ‘the most prominent alchemical physician in Germany since Paracelsus,’ Michael Maier was Royal Physician and Count Palatine to Holy Roman Emperor Rudolf II. A doctor, diplomat and alchemist, Maier spent much of his life in a poignant, fruitless quest for the elusive Rosicrucian Brotherhood; visionaries and intellectuals whose Manifestos proclaiming a “universal reformation of mankind” had caused an immense impact on European culture in the wake of decades of religious warfare. 
Maier produced a variety of works synthesising his interests in healing, alchemy, and esoteric philosophy. His Atalanta fugiens (1617) was designed to simultaneously stimulate the senses, the intellect, and the spirit through engagement with the emblems, music, and text, to lead the reader on a path to self-initiation through the secrets of alchemical knowledge. In this richly illustrated book, Sasha Chaitow traces this path through the structure and content of the Atalanta fugiens together with a number of Maier’s other works. She explores the coded mythical references in the images and provides evidence that the emblems need to be rearranged to decode Maier’s full message."


https://sashachaitow.co.uk/atalantaunveiled/

"In Chinese alchemy, elixir poisoning refers to the toxic effects of elixirs of immortality that contain metals and minerals such as mercury and arsenic. The official Twenty-Four Histories record numerous Chinese emperors, nobles, and Officials who ironically died from taking elixirs in order to prolong their lifespans. The first emperor to die from a poisoning elixir was probably Qin Shi Huang (d. 210 BCE) and the last was Yongzheng (d. 1735). Despite common knowledge that immortality potions could be deadly, fangshi and Daoist alchemists continued the elixir-making practice for two millennia."


https://www.nerri.eu/chinese-alchemical-...poisoning/

"I have intended for sometime to write a little piece on the stages of alchemical work.There are several books on alchemy, but I’m afraid not very many talk in a clear manner of the alchemical process itself. Surely, throughout the centuries alchemicaltechniques underwent a natural evolution, and matters are complicated by the personaltouch each alchemist set on the process. However, it appears that the Western alchemical tradition maintained a consistency of four phases expressed in colors."


At Scribd:

https://fr.scribd.com/doc/11441835/The-F...mical-Work

"“MS. 446" WAS PRODUCED IN FRANCE, IN THE LATE 15TH CENTURY AND IS A RICH EXAMPLE OF AN ALCHEMICAL TREATISE. IT IS, HOWEVER, DEVOID OF MOST OF THE CRYPTIC ALCHEMICAL PHRASES THAT ARE SO ENIGMATIC TO US IN THE PRESENT DAY. IT CENTERS, RATHER, ON THE TECHNICAL POSSIBILITIES OF THE ART. AMPLY ILLUSTRATED, WITH 56 COLOR DRAWINGS, IT DETAILS 20 CHEMICAL PROCEDURES AND PROCESSES. THE MAIN TEXT IS FOLLOWED BY SEVEN FOLIOS OF FULL-PAGE ALCHEMICAL DRAWINGS, SEVEN FOLIOS CONTAINING AN ALCHEMICAL SYNTHESIS, AND THREE FOLIOS OF PRACTICAL RECIPES."

https://www.apmanuscripts.com/voynich/ms...ury-france

http://www.elizabethancostume.net/dyes/dyebib.html

by Teresa Burns and J. Alan Moore

Journal of the Western Mystery Tradition
No. 18, Vol. 2. Vernal Equinox 2010

http://jwmt.org/v2n18/tablets.html