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MELISSA RIDLEY ELMES
Arthuriana
Vol. 27, No. 1 (SPRING 2017), pp. 73-94 (22 pages)
Published By: Scriptorium Press


https://www.jstor.org/stable/26443659

A LECTURE DELIVERED BEFORE THE BACON SOCIETY, DECEMBER 20TH, 1906.

"ALCHEMY is a subject variously defined by various writers. According to some it is a pretended science, having for its object the transmutation of the baser metals into gold, and those practising it were either dupes or fools. Others maintain that the Alchemists were not in pursuit of material objects at all, but were, in reality, the philosophers and reformers of their period, whose true Ars Magna, disguised under a jargon of symbolism, was a conversion of the baser elements of humanity into the gold of goodness."

http://thebookshelf2015.blogspot.com/201...ayley.html

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The Catalpa Monographs: A Critical Survey of the Art and Writings of Austin Osman Spare

By Dr. William Wallace

https://www.lewismasonic.co.uk/emporium/...-osman.htm

"Featuring 93 colour images and 50 unpublished artworks by Spare this book expands upon the books first publishing in the 1980s. The author returns to his earliest writing as the basis for a newly updated inquiry into the volatile essences of Spare’s art. This is a substantial and thought-provoking book by the most prolific contributor to Sparean scholarship...Wallace has explored not only occult texts and alchemical art, but has also found a rich vein of reference and allusion to the biblical texts, and the art of Blake, Hogarth and Shakespeare."

   

"A complete guide to the Vigenère cipher and the tools you need to decode it."

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"Around 1586 Martin Roesel of Rosenthal compiled an alchemical manuscript in northern Germany. Now held in the Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library as Mellon MS 27, the manuscript contains several widely circulating alchemical treatises, among them the Semita recta of pseudo-Albertus Magnus and Khalid ibn Yazid’s Liber Trium Verborum, alongside alchemical recipes in both Latin and German. Martin annotated the three booklets that compose Mellon MS 27 extensively, copying
recipes from other sources and writing down his own. Although otherwise unknown, Martin is notable for having hidden some of his notes in cipher. While alchemists were famous for their secretiveness, I will argue that Martin’s use of ciphers represents a different sort of secret-keeping, one that stands to repay systematic study."

Agnieszka Rec, Yale


https://societasmagica.org/userfiles/fil...sue_31.pdf

Chymical Collections: Seventeenth Century textual transmutations in the work of Arthur Dee

Dissertation by Megan Piorko

"This dissertation is a biography of a text, Fasciculus Chemicus (1631). The seventeenth-century life of this text, from its inception to its vernacularization, sheds light on broader natural philosophical and textual issues inherent to alchemical knowledge-making."

https://scholarworks.gsu.edu/cgi/viewcon...story_diss

By Athanasios Rinotas

"Albertus Magnus’ alchemy is a subject that has attracted the attention of the scholars since the early decades of the 20th century. Yet, the research that has been conducted this far is characterised by its non philosophical character. As a matter of fact, the previous studies approached Albertus’ alchemy either in terms of history of science or of intellectual history. In this paper, I focus on Albertus’ definition of alchemical transmutation that is found in his De mineralibus and I analyze it in terms of his theory of creation and of his theory of matter"

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

By George MacDonald Ross

Full text:


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

To celebrate 350 years of scientific publishing, we are inviting our readers to tell us about their favourite papers from the Royal Society archive. Today Michael Hunter, Emeritus Professor of History at Birkbeck College, University of London tells us about a very strange paper from the archive.

"I have chosen what must be one of the strangest papers ever to appear in Philosophical Transactions. It is an alchemical text by Robert Boyle, published in 1676 under the rather transparent pseudonym ‘B.R.’"

https://royalsociety.org/blog/2015/07/al...nsactions/

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