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  Looking through the glass at the Ripley Scrolls
Posted by: Paul Ferguson - 01-15-2023, 01:32 PM - Forum: Alchemy texts - Replies (4)

Interview with Jennifer Rampling:

https://www.communitynews.org/towns/prin...8ea38.html

https://library.princeton.edu/alchemy

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  Guiley's Encyclopedia of Magic and Alchemy
Posted by: Paul Ferguson - 01-15-2023, 09:54 AM - Forum: Reviews and book notices - No Replies

Full-text download on academia.edu:

https://www.academia.edu/5021522/Encyclo...nd_Alchemy

I have no idea about the legal status of this posting by Priscilla Martinelli.

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  Olivier Dufault on Transmutation Theory
Posted by: Paul Ferguson - 01-12-2023, 05:11 PM - Forum: Articles on alchemy - No Replies

Abstract: This paper defines the nature and extent of transmutation theory in the Greek alchemical corpus as found in the texts attributed to Zosimus of Panopolis, “the philosopher Synesius,” and “the philosopher Olympiodorus of Alexandria.” By transmutation theory, I understand all explicit attempts made by Greek alchemical writers to explain how one substance can be entirely transformed into another.

https://hcommons.org/deposits/objects/hc...NT/content

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  The “Ingendred” Stone: The Ripley Scrolls
Posted by: Paul Ferguson - 01-12-2023, 05:07 PM - Forum: Articles on alchemy - No Replies

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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  Genizah fragments T-S Ar.44.4 and T-S NS 31.6
Posted by: Paul Ferguson - 01-12-2023, 05:03 PM - Forum: Alchemy texts - No Replies

'On close examination Gabriele Ferrario discovered it was in fact a collection of alchemical recipes. What makes it special, compared to many other alchemical recipes in the Genizah, is that there are not only technical instructions but they reference in quite a lot of detail books of Arabic alchemical literature – works from the Jabirian corpus.' 

https://www.lib.cam.ac.uk/genizah-fragme...e-ferrario

   

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  Max Ernst and Alchemy: A Magician in Search of Myth
Posted by: Paul Ferguson - 01-12-2023, 04:42 PM - Forum: Reviews and book notices - No Replies

Surrealist artist Max Ernst defined collage as the "alchemy of the visual image." Students of his work have often dismissed this comment as simply a metaphor for the transformative power of using found images in a new context. Taking a wholly different perspective on Ernst and alchemy, however, M. E. Warlick persuasively demonstrates that the artist had a profound and abiding interest in alchemical philosophy and often used alchemical symbolism in works created throughout his career.

With Google extracts:
https://tinyurl.com/27cfpffn

   

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  University of Bologna research
Posted by: Paul Ferguson - 01-12-2023, 11:15 AM - Forum: Articles on alchemy - No Replies

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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  Arthur Machen and Alchemy
Posted by: Paul Ferguson - 01-11-2023, 07:58 PM - Forum: Alchemy texts - No Replies

I've just been reading about Arthur Machen. It's thought that this charming article about alchemy in Household Words first inspired his interest in esoterica at the tender age of 8:

https://www.djo.org.uk/household-words/v...e-135.html

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  Spranger's Allegory of Alchemy
Posted by: Carl Lavoie - 01-09-2023, 01:31 AM - Forum: Alchemical symbolism and imagery - No Replies

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By the wonderful Flemish Mannerist painter, Bartholomeus Spranger, an Allegory of Alchemy. 

https://www.meisterdrucke.uk/fine-art-pr...chemy.html

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  The Alchemy of Glass
Posted by: Adam McLean - 01-05-2023, 10:48 AM - Forum: Reviews and book notices - No Replies

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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