By John Considine.

https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1...ode=yamb20

By Ute Frietsch.

Full text:

https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....21.1936800

"The second part of the book concludes with Allison Kavey’s essay on popular English alchemical texts in the seventeenth century, which represent, she argues, an alternative tradition to the dominant Aristotelian model of the natural world. Instead of a system of binaries, as in most early modern medical and other scientific works, Paracelsian alchemical discourse was based on ‘systems of sympathy’ exemplified in the metaphor of the ‘chemical marriage’ (p. 223); and if that metaphor seems simply to reinforce Aristotelian principles of balance or tension between opposites, Kavey suggests that in alchemical writing the element mercury – often associated with Ganymede – ‘hermaphroditically confounds these divisions’ (p. 223) and in effect dissolves the apparent difference between male and female elements into a unitary or ‘shared, fluid essence’ (p. 228). Kavey does not actually discuss human same-sex desire or love; rather, she focuses on the use writers on alchemy made of figures of gender instability and metamorphosis, including (albeit rarely) images of male-male coupling, to illustrate the otherwise occult process of chemical transformation."

The Sciences of Homosexuality in Early Modern Europe
edited by: Kenneth Borris, George Rousseau
London, Routledge, 2008, ISBN: 9780415446921; 292pp.


https://reviews.history.ac.uk/review/701

Natural Philosophy in England, 1550-1600

"The rise of print culture in early modern England is one of the most important and most frequently studied changes of the period. Often viewed as a marker of modernity, this shift provides the starting point for Books of Secrets, which illuminates how sixteenth-century English culture was influenced by one particular type of print matter--"books of secrets." Ranging from alchemy to necromancy, these texts offered medieval [sic] readers an affordable and accessible collection of knowledge about the natural world."

https://www.press.uillinois.edu/books/?id=c032097

By Cynthea Masson.


https://journals.lib.unb.ca/index.php/fl...5361/20245

By Liana Saif.


At Scribd:

https://www.scribd.com/document/52045367...lgrave-Mac

Album by Valanx.

If you have Spotify:

https://open.spotify.com/album/2WUGl5LnKOLOiB7yESEhEL

A noblewoman and two noblemen examining some gold produced by an alchemist.

Greatbach after Alfred Holst Tourrier.



   

Translated by Christopher Templesage.

Texts by Paracelsus, Albert the Great, Raymond Lully, Roger Bacon, and Arnaud Villanova



https://www.amazon.co.uk/Five-Manuscript...1312355255

Guided Tour.

"Cette visite vous dévoilera l’histoire des alchimistes, ces magiciens des temps anciens qui ont inspiré de grandes œuvres, de Victor Hugo à Harry Potter. Apprentis alchimistes, suivez le chemin initiatique tracé jadis par Nicolas Flamel, et laissez-vous conter les enseignements philosophiques de Maître Albert dans le Quartier Latin. Tel Saint Michel, apprenez à maîtriser le dragon, la part sombre qui sommeille en vous. Laissez-vous entraîner dans une quête ésotérique, philosophique et passionnante, pleine d’histoire et de magie."

https://www.sous-les-paves.com/produit/p...lchimique/