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The “Ingendred” Stone: The Ripley Scrolls |
Posted by: Paul Ferguson - 01-12-2023, 05:07 PM - Forum: Articles on alchemy
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Aaron Kitch situates the Ripley scrolls in the context of English alchemy in the sixteenth century, especially the tradition of emblematic alchemy and John Dee’s efforts to establish George Ripley as England’s chief alchemical authority. He analyzes the pattern of imagery on the scrolls in relation to the ancient and early modern philosophy of generation, which focused on questions about sexual reproduction and the emergence of new matter in nature.
https://www.bowdoin.edu/profiles/faculty...crolls.pdf
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University of Bologna research |
Posted by: Paul Ferguson - 01-12-2023, 11:15 AM - Forum: Articles on alchemy
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Can alchemy be described as a protoscience? Do ancient texts with obscure formulas and procedures describe mystic rituals and allegoric visions? Or do they record instructions to carry out real scientific experiments? In other words, can alchemy be considered the ancestor of chemistry?
A group of scholars at the University of Bologna comprising philologists, historians of science, and chemists has attempted to answer these questions. To do so, they not only revived and studied ancient alchemical texts in detail but also put the described procedures into practice in the laboratory. The results of this interdisciplinary work - developed within the AlchemEast ERC project awarded to Prof. Matteo Martelli, Department of Philosophy and Communication Studies - have been published in the journal PNAS.
https://www.eurekalert.org/news-releases/958189
https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.2123171119
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The Alchemy of Glass |
Posted by: Adam McLean - 01-05-2023, 10:48 AM - Forum: Reviews and book notices
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The Alchemy of Glass Counterfeit, Imitation, and Transmutation in Ancient Glassmaking
Marco Beretta
Published 2009
The book illustrates how glass played an important role in ancient technical and alchemical literature and how the chemical operations devised to improve glass-making inspired alchemists to better define the theoretical boundaries of their discipline and, more specifically, the notion of transmutation.
Now made available online:-
https://www.academia.edu/40144531/The_Al...lassmaking
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