Blog post about Otakar Zachar’s (1899) monograph on the “Cesta spravedliva v alchymii” (“The True Path of Alchemy”)

"Zachar claims that the book was written by the Czech servant of an Italian alchemist called Antonio di Firenze (Florence) and was then hidden somewhere (in Bohemia?). In 1606 (an interesting date!) it was discovered – a hearsay, Zachar admits – by a doctor of medicine (perhaps Czech?) who recognized its value and brought the book to Jerusalem (apparently personally). After the doctor’s death, the book was hidden again (where, in Jerusalem? Or back in Bohemia?) and then rediscovered. Zachar studied the manuscript for several months and copied its text verbatim for his own book (the original text was written on parchment in black ink, with only its chapter headings in red)."

http://ciphermysteries.com/2009/08/31/ot...chemy-book

By Otakar Zachar

Full text in Czech

https://ndk.cz/view/uuid:4181cf10-1f02-1...f3fc9bb22f



https://www.deepl.com/translator

The Chymists Key to Shut, and to Open: Or The True Doctrin of Corruption and Generation: In Ten Brief Aphorismes, Illustrated with Most Plain and Faithful Commentaries Out of the Pure Light of Nature: by that Judicious & Jndustreous Artist Henry Nollius. Published by Eugenius Philalethes

Reading, with music.

https://www.bitchute.com/video/YLpRE9cDsSZv/

Full text. 

In English.

Identified as open source.

https://archive.org/details/alchemy-myst...3/mode/2up

El alquimista

   

The Alchemist and The Alchemist in his Workshop (1793)

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On Monday the Internet Archive joined thousands of others in submitting comments to the US Copyright Office as part of its study on Copyright and Artificial Intelligence.


https://blog.archive.org/2023/11/02/inte...elligence/

This paper explores major trends in visualization of medieval theories of natural and artificial transformation of substances in relation to their philosophical and theological bases. The function of pictorial forms is analyzed in terms of the prevailing conceptions of science and methods of transmitting knowledge. The documents under examination date from the thirteenth to the fifteenth century. In these, pictorial representations include lists and tables, geometrical figures, depictions of furnaces and apparatus, and figurative elements mainly from the vegetable and animal realms. An effort is made to trace the earliest evidence of these differing pictorial types."


https://www.semanticscholar.org/paper/Vi...cefa1765ce

http://www.hyle.org/journal/issues/9-2/obrist.pdf

"Based upon key publications by Paul Oskar Kristeller (1938) and especially Frances A. Yates (1964), it has been widely assumed that an important “Hermetic Tradition”
emerged during the Renaissance and that Marsilio Ficino’s Latin translation of the Corpus Hermeticum (first ed. 1471) was at its origin. This article argues that these
assumptions need to be revised."


https://pure.uva.nl/ws/files/2591988/169...etism_.pdf

"Théories & symboles des alchimistes : le grand-oeuvre : suivi d'un essai sur la bibliographie alchimique du XIXe sìecle.

Public Domain.


https://archive.org/details/b24927399/mode/2up