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  Faust in his Laboratory
Posted by: Paul Ferguson - 10-10-2023, 10:14 AM - Forum: Alchemical symbolism and imagery - No Replies

Swiss professional photographer Boissonnas (1858-1946) would sometimes construct elaborate sets in his studio and create photographs after famous paintings.  This study of Faust in his laboratory is done in the style of a famous Rembrandt etching.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fr%C3%A9d%...Boissonnas

   

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  Fiction: The Order by Steven William Rimmer
Posted by: Paul Ferguson - 10-10-2023, 09:54 AM - Forum: Reviews and book notices - No Replies

"The Order is the only novel I’ve written thus far to touch on themes of alchemy, the old science of transmuting elements and coercing the physical world through occult processes. I’d hasten to add that “occult” only means “evil” when it appears on a movie poster. Any good dictionary will tell you that it really suggests something hidden or obscured. As Mairéad learns, there’s not much about The Order that isn’t."

https://www.stevenwilliamrimmer.com/theorder.html


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  George Ripley and his Alchemical Sources
Posted by: Paul Ferguson - 10-10-2023, 09:38 AM - Forum: Articles on alchemy - No Replies

Establishing the Canon: George Ripley and his Alchemical Sources.

Jennifer Rampling.
 
"George Ripley, Canon of Bridlington (ca. 1415 to ca. 1490) was one ofEngland’s most famous alchemists, whose alchemical opera attracted study and commentary throughout the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries,and were printed and translated both in England and abroad. Yet Ripley’s frequently baffling texts have proved resistant to scholarly interpretation.This paper attempts to unravel some of Ripley’s alchemical theories and practice, firstly by identifying his major sources, and secondly by gauginghis response to these texts."

https://www.academia.edu/3709516/Establi...al_Sources

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  An Illustrated History of Alchemy and Early Chemistry
Posted by: Paul Ferguson - 10-10-2023, 09:33 AM - Forum: Articles on alchemy - No Replies

Free book for kids.

David Katz.

http://www.chymist.com/History%20Alchemy.pdf

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  Pieter Symonsz Potter: In the Alchemist's Chamber
Posted by: Paul Ferguson - 10-09-2023, 05:14 PM - Forum: Alchemical symbolism and imagery - No Replies

Pieter Symonsz Potter (1597 in Enkhuizen – 1652 in Amsterdam), was a Dutch Golden Age painter.


   

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  Encoding Newton’s Alchemical Library
Posted by: Paul Ferguson - 10-09-2023, 04:36 PM - Forum: Articles on alchemy - No Replies

Integrating Traditional Bibliographic and Modern Computational Methods

Meridith Beck Mink, Michelle Dalmau, Wallace Hooper, William R. Newman, James R. Voelkel and John A. Walsh

"The Chymistry of Isaac Newton (http://chymistry.org) project team has digitized and encoded, following the TEI Guidelines, the complete corpus of Newton’s alchemical manuscripts, which total more than two thousand pages and over one million words."


https://journals.openedition.org/jtei/2866

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  The Surreal Art of Alchemical Diagrams
Posted by: Paul Ferguson - 10-09-2023, 04:26 PM - Forum: Alchemical symbolism and imagery - Replies (3)

" As well as reams of text, the ins and outs of the alchemist's task, steeped as it is in a dizzyingly complex symbology, has given birth to a whole host of strange and wondrous imagery over the centuries. Here we pick out some favourites, many found on Wellcome Images and the brilliant Manly Palmer Hall collection at the Internet Archive."

https://publicdomainreview.org/collectio...-diagrams/

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  Good as Gold: Sir Isaac Newton's Alchemy
Posted by: Paul Ferguson - 10-09-2023, 04:24 PM - Forum: Articles on alchemy - No Replies

Editorial from Perception, vol. 18, 1989

https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/pdf/10.1068/p180697

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  The Case of Robert Fludd
Posted by: Paul Ferguson - 10-09-2023, 04:21 PM - Forum: Articles on alchemy - No Replies

"The second purpose of my article is to showcase the visual alchemy of Fludd’s artwork. This kind of imagery, often associated with Western esotericism, conveys its
meaning through a distinct semiotic structure. It comprises both literal and metaphorical meaning, though Fludd’s explanations were often quite literal. To illuminate this dualism,
I have chosen to focus on Fludd’s claim that God and the human soul are not parts of Nature and cannot be quantified with numbers."

Dante Diottallevi

https://thewollesen.files.wordpress.com/...ected2.pdf

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  Alchemy, Science, and Innovations in the Decorative Arts
Posted by: Paul Ferguson - 10-09-2023, 04:17 PM - Forum: Articles on alchemy - No Replies

"The widespread patronage of talented alchemists led to important innovations in the decorative arts, most notably in the production of vitreous materials, such as glass and enamel."

Ana Matisse Donefer-Hickie


https://www.metmuseum.org/blogs/now-at-t...ng-marvels

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