"This work re-interprets the symbolism of the emblematic "Rainbow" portrait (c. 1600) of Elizabeth I. The traditional title comes from the identification of the rainbow in the portrait as that of Genesis 9:13. In fact, as this work demonstrates, it is the philosophers' rainbow, a cryptonym for the colors--black, red, white--of the three stages of alchemic transmutation: purification, illumination, perfection. Elizabeth is represented as the Faery Queen, the alchemical monarch."

Robert Gibson Robertson III

Louisiana State Univ.

https://repository.lsu.edu/gradschool_disstheses/6549/

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Erika M. Grimminger

CONCEPT, Vol. XXXV (2012)

"What  were  aristocratic women’s responses to illness?How  did  they  deal  with  sickness  in  the  family  and  community?How  did  noble  women  come  together  in  times  of  sickness  or  pregnancy?What  knowledge  did they possess about medicines and other remedies?Did men seem to appreciate women’s help in health  care?"


https://concept.journals.villanova.edu/a...ew/790/643

From the Lowens Fellows, University of Victoria.

"Welcome to A Science of Secrets: Exploring Early Modern Alchemy! This exhibit wants to do just that: explore what early modern alchemy was, who practiced it, how they wrote about their ideas and why they pursued ‘magical’ goals. In modern media, alchemists are often lumped in with wizards and warlocks in fantasy books. But they would not have thought of themselves in this way and they don’t write about themselves that way. Alchemists are now considered proto-chemists who contributed a lot to early chemistry and to medicine. This exhibit hopes to peel back the veil on this mysterious practice and show you the real people behind this discipline.

Four poems and one prose treatise are the focuses of this exhibit. Although they come from different decades across the centuries when alchemy was popular (or beyond), they share many of the same features. If you want more information about these items, see the About page. There is also an index of terms in the about section. However, alchemy was a vast phenomenon that spanned centuries and countries. It would be impossible to cover everything. These works are largely from the French or English tradition and I hope they provide a glimpse into alchemy."

https://omekas.library.uvic.ca/s/lowens/page/alchemy

Lisa Goldstein

"Scientist, mathematician, and court astrologer to Queen Elizabeth I, John Dee is also one of the sixteenth-century's most renowned alchemists, driven by a passion to fathom the elemental secrets of the cosmos. But when his reckless assistant, Edward Kelley, succeeds in using a crystal sphere to summon angels, Dee is catapulted into an awesome struggle that may extinguish the light of reason forever."

https://us.macmillan.com/books/978076530...emistsdoor

"We present the second coin in ‘The Alchemists’ series – a collectible silver coin called ‘Dr. J. Dee – Ars Speculum’. The coin continues the series dedicated to remembering and honouring the famous and historically significant alchemists who sought ways to turn base metals into gold. The new coin is dedicated to a famous 16th century alchemist, astronomer, mathematician, and advisor to Queen Elizabeth I – Dr. John Dee."

https://lithuanian-mint.com/a-silver-coi...-john-dee/

"Anneké Pettican and the Brass Art collective reworked the drawings of Queen Elizabeth I’s alchemist and magician John Dee.

AN INTRIGUING study of hands and gestures by Elizabethan alchemist John Dee have been brought to life in an exhibition [in 2017] featuring works of art by an award-winning artist from the University of Huddersfield.

Anneké Pettican from the University’s School of Art, Design and Architecture is one of three members of the art collective Brass Art and their exhibition entitled Gestured, is a collection of sculptures and video works inspired by alchemy, transformation and symbolic gesture found in the famous alchemist’s book."



https://www.hud.ac.uk/news/2017/november...mslibrary/

...or, "The hunting of the greene lyon"

Betty Jo Teeter Dobbs

Contents: List of plates Preface 1. 'The Hunting of the Greene Lyon' 2. Conceptual Background for Seventeenth-Century Alchemy 3. Seventeenth-Century Alchemy 4. Chemistry and Alchemy at Cambridge 5. Newton's Earliest Alchemy: 1668-75 6. Newton's Integration of Alchemy and Mechanism Epilogue Appendices Selected Bibliographies Index.


https://oa.mg/work/1570968926

Posits parallels between the alchemical process and human generation.

   

   

   

Elizabeth Olsen Brocious
Brigham Young University


"Alchemical imagery and ideology is present in many Romantic works of literature, but it has largely been overlooked by literary historians in their
contextualization of the time period. The same can be said for mysticism in general, of which alchemy is a subset. This project accounts for alchemy in the works of
transcendental philosophers and writers as it contributes to some of the most important conversations of the Romantic time period, particularly the reaction against empirical philosophy and the articulation of creative processes."

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

Alexandre Mattos Roberts

"This dissertation examines how scholars in eleventh-century Constantinople and Antioch (under Byzantine rule, 969-1084) understood matter and its transformation. It argues that matter, a concept inherited from ancient philosophy, continued to be a fertile and malleable idea-complex endowed with cultural and religious meaning in medieval thought-worlds of the Eastern Mediterranean."


https://escholarship.org/content/qt3n31m...38a812.pdf