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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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  An Alchemist in Greenland: Hans Egede
Posted by: Paul Ferguson - 10-09-2023, 04:01 PM - Forum: Articles on alchemy - No Replies

An Alchemist in Greenland: Hans Egede (1686–1758) and Alchemical Practice in the Colony of Hope

by Hilde Norrgrén

Full text, from Ambix


https://www.researchgate.net/publication...ny_of_Hope

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  Chemistry, Medicine, and Gold-Making
Posted by: Paul Ferguson - 10-09-2023, 03:57 PM - Forum: Articles on alchemy - No Replies

Tycho Brahe, Helwig Dieterich, Otto Tachenius, and Johann Glauber

by Dr. Curt Wentrup


"Three major objectives of 17th century chemists were the preparation of proper chemicals, the preparation of herbal and inorganic medicines (iatrochemistry), and the making of gold by transmutation of lesser metals. The doctrines of Aristotle and Paracelsus that all things were made from the same, primary constituents, implied the feasibility of transmutation."

https://chemistry-europe.onlinelibrary.w....202200289

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  Atalanta Fugiens Digital Edition
Posted by: Paul Ferguson - 10-09-2023, 08:27 AM - Forum: Alchemy texts - No Replies

A Digital Edition of Michael Maier's Atalanta fugiens (1618) with Scholarly Commentary

EDITED BY TARA NUMMEDAL AND DONNA BILAK


https://furnaceandfugue.org/

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  Thesis: Spiritual Alchemy and Rosicrucianism in Michael Maier
Posted by: Paul Ferguson - 10-08-2023, 05:55 PM - Forum: Articles on alchemy - No Replies

Hereward Tilton

Full text


https://www.researchgate.net/publication..._1569-1622

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  Thesis on two Bartolomäus Spranger paintings
Posted by: Paul Ferguson - 10-08-2023, 05:51 PM - Forum: Articles on alchemy - No Replies

"The subject of this study is two paintings by Bartholomeus Spranger titled Glaucus and Scylla (Fig. 1) and Hermaphroditus and the Nymph Salmacis (Fig. 2). Building upon the work of scholars who have argued for a possible alchemical interpretation of at least one of the paintings in the context of its execution for Emperor Rudolf II, this study goes beyond merely suggesting an alchemical connection, and argues that the two paintings, forming a pendant pair, depict two attempts at the alchemist’s magnum opus—one a failure, the other a success."

Peter Kos

https://digitalcommons.lindenwood.edu/cg...ext=theses

   

   

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  Review of Meredith Ray's Daughters of Alchemy
Posted by: Paul Ferguson - 10-08-2023, 05:42 PM - Forum: Reviews and book notices - Replies (1)

https://jps.library.utoronto.ca/index.ph...6400/19587

https://www.amazon.com/Daughters-Alchemy...0674504232

   

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  For Sale: Maier's Chymisches Cabinet
Posted by: Paul Ferguson - 10-08-2023, 05:38 PM - Forum: Alchemy texts - No Replies

Using the same Merian engravings created for the 1617 original printing (entitled "Atalanta Fugiens"), this is the second edition and the first in German of a work described by Kindlers as "indisputably the most beautiful, the strangest and most inventive work of 17th century esoteric alchemy." 

https://www.pirages.com/pages/books/ST16...sinnreiche

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  Video: Furnace and Fugue: An Alchemical Happy Hour
Posted by: Paul Ferguson - 10-08-2023, 05:31 PM - Forum: Articles on alchemy - No Replies

"Written by alchemist Michael Maier in 1618, Atalanta Fugiens reinterprets Ovid’s legend of Atalanta as an alchemical allegory in a series of fifty emblems. This remarkable book has recently been reimagined in multimedia form as Furnace and Fugue, a digital critical edition that allows contemporary readers to hear, see, manipulate, and investigate Atalanta Fugiens in ways that were impossible to realize in full before now. How was Atalanta Fugiens imagined by its 17th-century author and reimagined in Furnace and Fugue? What secrets are unlocked when we look at an old book in a new way? These are just some of the topics we tackled during our Alchemical Happy Hour on October 29, 2020."

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8YytO_Fm3yM

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