"This paper manuscript, produced around 1700, mentions in its title Emperor Leopold (I, reigned 1658-1705). The identity of Giovanni Baptista Coene from Passau, named as author, remains obscure; no further information is available about him. — The names of metals and other materials that Coene used in experiments are not written out in the text, but are represented by alchemic symbols (planetary signs, etc.). Because these occur in large numbers, the text is not easily readable or understandable. Further evidence that the manuscript is rooted in alchemy comes from the fact that Coene refers to Paracelsus (1493/94-1541)."

http://www.e-codices.unifr.ch/en/searchr...e/ebs/0030

Thanks to a generous donation from Da Vinci Code author Dan Brown, Amsterdam’s Ritman Library—a sizable collection of pre-1900 books on alchemy, astrology, magic, and other occult subjects—has been digitizing thousands of its rare texts under a digital education project cheekily called “Hermetically Open.”


https://embassyofthefreemind.com/en/

By François Pépin, Translated by Donald Nicholson-Smith

From: Archives de Philosophie Volume 84, Issue 1, January 2021, pages 51 to 72

https://www.cairn-int.info/journal-archi...age-51.htm

Sara Norja

"This study concerns an English-language alchemical work called The Mirror of Alchemy (MoA). I examine manuscript copies of MoA from the 15th to 17th centuries as well as a printed edition from 1597. The main aim of my study is to edit a previously unstudied manuscript version of MoA, making this work accessible for future research and contributing to developing editorial methods for early scientific texts. A central aim is to place MoA in its textual and historical contexts to clarify the edited text to readers. I employ theory and methods from the fields of scholarly editing and textual scholarship, and integrate the discussion of manuscript and printed witnesses."

https://www.utupub.fi/handle/10024/151694

Linda Carney dissertation.

https://escholarshare.drake.edu/items/c0...5a61998a28

John Clements

"By the early decades of the eighteenth century alchemy and astrology had ceased to be considered respectable or credible by elite society. Astrology had been removed from
university curricula, while alchemy largely ceased to be publicly practised by the educated and respected and became regarded by those of elite status to be little more than a tool for charlatans or quacks. This thesis draws out these twin declines and considers them in parallel, focusing on trying to analyse what changed intellectually and socially within
England to so dramatically alter the fates of these arts."


https://etheses.whiterose.ac.uk/20821/1/...s.docx.pdf

Florin George Calian


"The accent on scientific and empirical character of alchemy, especially from the field of the history of science, promotes the idea that one can understand the cryptic and metaphorical language of alchemy mainly through the laboratory chemical practice. As a result, the tendency is to interpret the spiritual and esoteric language of alchemy, as metaphors for laboratory work and the most representative research on historiography of alchemy that point the spiritual character as being contaminated by esoteric sciences and Victorian occultism.'



https://www.researchgate.net/publication...of_Alchemy

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




   

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The chapter on Dorn from Jeremy Naydler's 'In the Shadow of the Machine' is included in the Google preview (at least in some jurisdictions):

https://tinyurl.com/h3pbb7ss

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