A GREEK ALCHEMICAL EPIGRAM IN ITS MIDDLE BYZANTINE CONTEXT by Alexandre M. Roberts


https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/pd...CI83010001

Thesis by William Christian.

"This thesis examines a late medieval alchemical treatise known as the Aurora Consurgens,
which is ascribed to the early decades of the fifteenth century. The Aurora was among the
first of its kind in a tradition of poetico-rhetorical alchemy that became popular in the late
middle ages and early modern period. While it is indisputable that early Latin alchemical
texts contained allegorical language and religious symbolism, the Aurora heralded a new
form of alchemical literature, where mysticism became thoroughly and inseparably
interpolated with the operations of the laboratory. The Aurora is framed as a dialogue
between an unnamed alchemist and Sapientia, a female embodiment of God’s wisdom,
which in the text, is conflated with the philosopher’s stone. This thesis focuses on a series
of visions that appear throughout the document. These visions invoke the unitive imagery
of late medieval mystical theology and contain many of the themes that appear in medieval
contemplative literature. These are, namely, the image of the ‘cloud’ that appears in the
tradition of pseudo-Dionysian mystical theology, motifs of darkness and illumination,
purgation, and union with the divine. The principal argument contends that the author of
the Aurora Consurgens used the motifs of mystical theology to elucidate his understanding
of the alchemical work."


http://etheses.dur.ac.uk/14918/1/UNIO_MY....pdf?DDD17+

"This thesis traces the influence of alchemy and its renaissance in
the early seventeenth century as Rosicrucianism, in William
Shakespeare's Pericles, Prince of Tyre and The Tempest, and Ben
Jonson's The Alchemist."


https://open.uct.ac.za/bitstream/handle/...sequence=1

"Some fifty years ago, the German scholar Paul Kraus declared that the well-known
corpus of Arabic alchemical writings traditionally attributed to Jabir ibn Hayyan was not
written by a single author. Kraus concluded that these writings, with the possible exception
of one treatise, were collectively produced by several generations of Qaimatf-IsmaTlI
authors who lived no earlier than the latter half of the 9th century AD. Kraus' conclusions,
already a scholarly orthodoxy, are reexamined by the present thesis."


https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10...thesis.pdf

Copyright not renewed.


http://www.labirintoermetico.com/01Alchi...(1941).pdf

Thesis by CT Runstedler, Durham Univ.

"This thesis examines the role of alchemy in Middle English poetry from fourteenth- and
fifteenth-century England, particularly how these poems present themselves as exemplary
narratives to raise moral points about human behaviour, fallibility, and alchemical
experimentation."


http://etheses.dur.ac.uk/12593/1/Runsted....pdf?DDD11+

"This is a practiced based enquiry that concerns itself with the interpretation of the ideas of
alchemy through the creation of a range of contemporary jewellery pieces. This study consists
of both practice and theory, of which this thesis is the theoretical component. 

The alchemical dream was centred around the transmutation of matter into gold, and this
remained a central goal in a field of study that spans centuries. Alchemists researched the
improvement of matter, and themselves, through formulating theories and applying this in
practice. However, the term, alchemy, is difficult to define. Alchemy can be interpreted in
several ways, such as pre chemistry, a philosophy of nature or an interpretation of analytical
psychology. This depends on the perspective from which it is viewed, be it positivistic,
postmodern or anthropological, making it a term that could be seen to have multiple meanings
or interpretations."


Thesis by Ronel Jordaan.

https://scholar.sun.ac.za/server/api/cor...8f/content

An Ancient Chinese Treatise on Alchemy Entitled Ts'an T'ung Ch'iAuthor(s): Lu-Chiang Wu, Tenney L. Davis, Wei Po-Yang
Source: Isis, Vol. 18, No. 2 (Oct., 1932), pp. 210-289
Published by: The University of Chicago Press on behalf of The History of Science Society


At Scribd:
https://www.scribd.com/doc/186253068/An-...on-Alchemy

Alchemy and the Mendicant Orders of Late Medieval and Early Modern Europe

Andrew Campbell,Lorenza Gianfrancesco &Neil Tarrant


https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....18.1512778

"An Alchemical Mass - Processus sub forma missae - narration with Gregorian chants - Alchemy text. This is an interesting alchemical text, by Melchior Cibinensis, in which an alchemical process is pictured in the form of the Mass. Melchior Cibinensis was a Hungarian alchemical writer active in the first part of the 16th century. He is known for the Processus sub forma missae, an alchemical mass, now dated to around 1525; it was published in the Theatrum Chemicum of 1602, and formed part of a celebrated later collection Symbola Aureae Mensae from 1617 of Michael Maier."

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d58_HUgap30