Thesis by Sietske Fransen.

https://sas-space.sas.ac.uk/6351/

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Rights-free.

https://archive.org/details/FulcanelliMa...t/mode/2up

Thesis by Justin R. Glosson

"Music and the Ineffable or Mystical world have always been tied hand in hand. The Greek Philosophers believed music to be the second greatest science of the quadrivium – second only to astronomy in the ability to capture the essence of the universe. Signs and symbols permeate mysticism and initiatory societies, such as the Rosicrucian and Masonic fraternities. The exploration of these signs and their symbolic use within these mystical and initiatory societies has yet to have been expounded upon in recent scholarship. Mysticism in an alchemical, or hermetic, sense has had little attention in the music-theoretical studies. This thesis will start filling this void."

https://digital.library.txstate.edu/handle/10877/5925

Kelley, Dee at page 126ff:

https://archive.org/details/lancashirefolklo00harlrich

... AND THE CATALOGUE OF HIS LIBRARY OF MANUSCRIPTS, FROM THE ORIGINAL MANUSCRIPTS IN THE ASHMOLEAN MUSEUM AT OXFORD, AND TRINITY
COLLEGE LIBRARY, CAMBRIDGE . EDITED BY JAMES ORCHARD HALLIWELL , ESQ . F.R.S.


https://www.sas.upenn.edu/~cavitch/pdf-l..._Diary.pdf

"I Dwelt in High Places" (1933) is a novel about Dr John Dee's relationship with Edward Kelley.


e-book:

https://www.gutenberg.net.au/ebooks23/2300441h.html

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

   

Full text.

https://www.magicgatebg.com/Books/INDEXI...20Life.pdf

"It is Sally Beamish’s highly original The King’s Alchemist that gives the disc its title, the King being King James IV of Scotland, killed at the battle of Flodden Field (1513) and the alchemist being the eccentric John Damian, who has so fascinated Beamish. (The latter attempted to fly by jumping off Stirling Castle’s battlements.)
The work has four movements and is based in part on the L’homme armé melody used at the time for Mass cycles including one by the King’s composer, Robert Carver.  Also, for movement three there is a Pavane, a popular dance of the period."


https://www.amazon.com/Kings-Alchemist-E...B0922QNWZG

https://www.britishmusicsociety.co.uk/20...ing-trios/

https://open.spotify.com/track/4DFbCNInTn6783inV8rFCq

Alchemy, saltpeter projects, and experimental fertilizers in seventeenth-century English agriculture.

Justin Niermeier-Dohoney


"As the primary ingredient in gunpowder, saltpeter was an extraordinarily important commodity in the early modern world. Historians of science and technology have long studied its military applications but have rarely focused on its uses outside of warfare. Due to its potential effectiveness as a fertilizer, saltpeter was also an integral component of experimental agricultural reform movements in the early modern period and particularly in seventeenth-century England. This became possible for several reasons: the creation of a thriving domestic saltpeter production industry in the second half of the sixteenth century; the development of vitalist alchemical theories that sought a unified explanation for the “growth” of minerals, metals, and plants; the rise of experimental natural philosophy; and the mid-seventeenth-century dominance of the English East India Company in the saltpeter trade, which allowed agricultural reformers to repurpose domestically produced saltpeter in agriculturally productive ways. This paper argues that the Hartlib Circle – a loose network of natural philosophers and social reformers – adopted vitalist matter theories and the practical, experimental techniques of alchemists to transform agriculture into a more productive enterprise. Though their grandiose plans never came to fruition, their experimental trials to develop artificial fertilizers played an early role in the origins and development of saline chemistry, agronomy, and the British Agricultural Revolution."

Full text:
https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177...3211033159

"Othello's absence in discussions of alchemical references in Shakespeare's works is not surprising, given that the play makes no explicit mention of gold making or the philosopher's stone, the two ideas likely to be most readily associated with alchemy in the minds of a twenty-first century audience. Consequently, the alchemical import of the play's language, such as the lines of Brabantio's accusation that Othello corrupts and steals Desdemona by "spells and medicines bought of mountebanks," or fraudulent vendors of alchemical wares, is easily overlooked (1.3.61).1 While the reference may seem casual, it is part of a thematic pattern of inversions in alchemical allusion, or more specifically, reversals of the redemptive alchemical allusion in Renaissance literature and poetry."

Thesis by Sarita Clara Rich (Brigham Ypung)
Full text.

https://scholarsarchive.byu.edu/cgi/view...ontext=etd