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  Video: Foundations of Alchemical Science
Posted by: Paul Ferguson - 03-06-2025, 08:59 AM - Forum: Articles on alchemy - No Replies

Marathon Video From Sophic Books:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tAa1lXL3D64

https://www.sophicbooks.com/

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  Updated Wiki: Richardus Anglicus
Posted by: Paul Ferguson - 03-06-2025, 08:55 AM - Forum: Articles on alchemy - No Replies

"Richardus Anglicus the alchemist wrote several texts in the 14th century, including Correctorium alchemiae, also known as Corrector (fatuorum). He was considered among the leading English alchemists of the period. Texts attributed to him were printed in De Alchemia (1541, 1550) and in Theatrum Chemicum (1602–1661). He was well read in the alchemical literature through the 14th century and stands in that tradition, including concerns with the materia prima."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ricardus_A...alchemist)

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  New Website: Alchemical Transmutation
Posted by: Paul Ferguson - 03-06-2025, 08:49 AM - Forum: Articles on alchemy - No Replies

"The essence of alchemy lies in its symbolic language. This website primarily serves to complement the Spotify podcasts and Youtube videos by offering these essential symbols. However, if you’ve stumbled upon this site, welcome! Feel free to explore and delve deeper into the world of alchemy."

https://alchemicaltransmutation.com/

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  Gemini Seal Pendant
Posted by: Paul Ferguson - 03-06-2025, 08:33 AM - Forum: Alchemical symbolism and imagery - No Replies

"The Gemini Seal Pendant draws from the intricate instructions of a 17th-century alchemical manuscript, where its creation was described in extraordinary detail. Traditionally, this sigil was to be forged from a blend of gold and silver, metals carefully melted together at the precise moment when the Sun enters Gemini, typically around the 10th or 11th of May."

https://commonera.com/products/gemini-al...Bu6Wn5Vhcz

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  Cotnoir: Online Course on Myth in Alchemy
Posted by: Paul Ferguson - 03-06-2025, 08:31 AM - Forum: News - Meeting - Events - No Replies

"Myth in Alchemy: From Homer to the Chymical Gods: A Four-Week Live, Online Course with Alchemist Brian Cotnoir, Begins April 7."

"Throughout the practice of western alchemy, myths, the stories of the gods and goddesses, were used to explain the forces at work in alchemical transmutation. It was thought that these stories cloaked deeper meanings that would, if understood properly, reveal the way forward in the work of perfecting matter and the soul.

Of interest are the sources of myth used by renaissance artists like Durer and alchemists like Maier in their depictions of the dieties. We will look at texts such as Boccaccio's Genealogy of the Pagan Gods, Cartari's Images of the Pagan Gods, and the work that started the Emblem Books, The Hieroglyphics of Horapollo.

This will prepare us to better understand the 50 emblems in Michael Maier's Atalanta Fugiens a most remarkable alchemical text of image, music, and poetry in the service of alchemical transmutation.

This four-part course will examine the use of myth, its origins and development into a symbolic language of alchemy and will trace a few examples of myth and show how it is interpreted as not just a metaphor but as an actual physical process."



https://www.morbidanatomy.org/classes/p/...tnoir-2025

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  Robert Place's Alchemical Tarot Reimagined
Posted by: Paul Ferguson - 03-06-2025, 08:28 AM - Forum: Alchemical symbolism and imagery - Replies (2)

"The Alchemical Tarot Reimagined, my newest deck, is being printed now and it will shipped to me by the end of June, 2025. But you can preorder the deck now."


https://robertmplacetarot.com/new-the-al...eimagined/

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  Charles Rainsford's Alchemical Dictionary
Posted by: Paul Ferguson - 03-06-2025, 08:22 AM - Forum: Alchemy texts - No Replies

"Who hasn't wanted an extensive, two-volume dictionary of alchemical terms and concepts? Charles Rainsford did! Rainsford was an 18th century British army officer, fellow of the Royal Society, and alchemist, who collected books about his interests. His collection included this translation of a Frence mytho-Hermetic dictionary, now UPenn Ms. Codex 1686."

Short Video:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fj2Dj4bINoc

UPenn MS here:
https://openn.library.upenn.edu/Data/000...x1686.html

Wiki here:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Rainsford

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  Pernety in English
Posted by: Paul Ferguson - 03-06-2025, 08:12 AM - Forum: Alchemy texts - No Replies

Pernety's MYTHO-HERMETIC DICTIONARY translated by Joseph Zabinski (First Edition Hardcover)

s/h from Miskatonic Books

https://www.miskatonicbooks.com/product/...hardcover/

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  Thesis: Gender & Sacred Space in 17C Alchemical Art
Posted by: Paul Ferguson - 03-01-2025, 05:52 PM - Forum: Alchemical symbolism and imagery - No Replies

THE ALCHEMIST’S WIFE: GENDER AND SACRED SPACE IN SEVENTEENTHCENTURY ALCHEMICAL ART

BY ELISABETH ROSE GENTER

"In seventeenth-century Europe, the practice of alchemy was commonplace among scholars, noblemen, and the clergy alike. A number of Dutch artists took interest in the subject and produced a variety of alchemical “genre” scenes, which depict the alchemist in his home laboratory, accompanied occasionally by his wife, children, and assistants. Dutch alchemical genre scenes serve a unique purpose in the study of art, as they showcase a versatile, complex space that gives us a look into Early Modern concepts of gender, domesticity, science, and religion."

Full text

https://ufdcimages.uflib.ufl.edu/NC/F0/0...nter_E.pdf

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  Willard: Paracelsian Neologisms & Early Modern Guides
Posted by: Paul Ferguson - 03-01-2025, 05:43 PM - Forum: Articles on alchemy - No Replies

From the book Multilingualism in the Middle Ages and Early Modern Age

"Paracelsus wrote in his own language. He not only peppered his early-new-high-German prose with Latin Frühneuhochdeutsch terms and tags but salted them with neologisms that drew from many languages—Greek and Latin for the medical and scientific terminology, Greek and Hebrew for classical and biblical references, and the vernacular tongues for elements of folklore and popular culture...This paper discusses the first dictionaries and offers readings of a sample text which, as readers and translators have long agreed, makes little sense until the code is broken and the words’ etymological meanings are at least conjectured."

https://www.academia.edu/35827893/Hard_P...ern_Guides

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