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  Bad Money and the Chemical Arts in Colonial America
Posted by: Paul Ferguson - 10-07-2023, 07:06 PM - Forum: Articles on alchemy - No Replies

"Other medical practitioners in New England, such as Benjamin Stockbridge (1704-1788), tried their hand at making gold and silver legally by conducting alchemical experiments alongside their medical practices. In another case, Gershom Bulkeley (1635-1713) took notes about medico-alchemical experiments in his home laboratory in Connecticut. Bulkeley possessed a Harvard education and owned copies of European medical and alchemical texts to aid his pursuits, while Stockbridge had received formal medical training and also read European texts."


https://commonplace.online/article/bad-m...rint=print

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  The Chemistry of Alchemy
Posted by: Paul Ferguson - 10-07-2023, 07:04 PM - Forum: Reviews and book notices - No Replies

The Chemistry of Alchemy: From Dragon's Blood to Donkey Dung, How Chemistry Was Forged

“What makes this book unique is the authors are chemists and provide experiments based on alchemy for readers to try. The experiments are simple to perform and can be made with commercially available products listed in the appendix.”

https://www.nyjournalofbooks.com/book-re...was-forged

   

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  John Evans, The Sinister Astrologer of Fetter-Lane
Posted by: Paul Ferguson - 10-07-2023, 07:00 PM - Forum: Articles on alchemy - No Replies

"Delving into the dark recesses of his mind, which undoubtedly were already full of jumbled astrological and alchemical notions, Evans hatched up an idea that would ultimately lead to his downfall: Antimonial cups."


https://thethinkersgarden.com/john-evans...tter-lane/

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  The Garden of Cyrus: Sir Thomas Browne
Posted by: Paul Ferguson - 10-07-2023, 06:55 PM - Forum: Alchemy texts - No Replies

"Just how Sir Thomas Browne’s discourse The Garden of Cyrus (1658) has not been recognised as exemplary of literary writings influenced by hermetic philosophy remains a mystery. The  first page of Browne's discourse alludes to no less than six major themes, symbols and preoccupations which are associated with western esoteric traditions including hermeticism."

https://aquariumofvulcan.blogspot.com/20...ncunx.html


Browne's text can be found here:

https://archive.org/details/gardenofcyrusorq04brow

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  John Dee in Manchester
Posted by: Paul Ferguson - 10-07-2023, 06:46 PM - Forum: Articles on alchemy - No Replies

"Where did Dee live? People speculate about a house, in an ancient street, preserved under the Corn Exchange. It seems more likely that Dee lived in what is now Chetham’s School."


https://www.uncarved.org/turb/articles/deemap.html

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  Margaret Baker's recipe book
Posted by: Paul Ferguson - 10-07-2023, 06:41 PM - Forum: Alchemy texts - No Replies

Margaret Maurer:


"On two of the last leaves of receipt book compiled by Margarett Baker in the late-seventeenth century, there is a brief treatise that defines the practice of alchemy (fols. 133v-134r)..."

https://recipes.hypotheses.org/12129

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  Robert Fludd and the Alchemical Process of Creation
Posted by: Paul Ferguson - 10-07-2023, 06:33 PM - Forum: Alchemical symbolism and imagery - No Replies

"Fludd believed in the Hermetic view of the macrocosm and the microcosm, and used Pythagorean principles of mathematics and musical harmony to explain how the cosmos was created. He also saw creation as an alchemical process and illustrated it with a series of fantastic drawings that look like mandalas or cymatics images."

https://jessicadavidson.co.uk/2023/07/17...-creation/

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  Tycho Brahe’s Alchemical Lab
Posted by: Paul Ferguson - 10-07-2023, 06:30 PM - Forum: Articles on alchemy - No Replies

"Tycho Brahe had his own alchemical laboratory in his observatory on his own island, Hven, just off the coast of mainland Denmark."


https://beforenewton.blog/daily-readings...mical-lab/

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  Chymical works at the Edward Worth Library
Posted by: Paul Ferguson - 10-07-2023, 06:23 PM - Forum: Alchemy texts - No Replies

"To mark the 350th anniversary of the publication of Robert Boyle’s The Sceptical Chymist (London, 1661), the online exhibition for the year 2011-12 is on the theme of ‘Alchemy and Chemistry in the Edward Worth Library’."

https://alchemyandchemistry.edwardworthlibrary.ie/

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  Theatrum Paracelsicum
Posted by: Paul Ferguson - 10-07-2023, 06:20 PM - Forum: Alchemy texts - No Replies

Compendium of Paracelsian links:

https://www.theatrum-paracelsicum.com/Main_Page

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