"Around 1586 Martin Roesel of Rosenthal compiled an alchemical manuscript in northern Germany. Now held in the Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library as Mellon MS 27, the manuscript contains several widely circulating alchemical treatises, among them the Semita recta of pseudo-Albertus Magnus and Khalid ibn Yazid’s Liber Trium Verborum, alongside alchemical recipes in both Latin and German. Martin annotated the three booklets that compose Mellon MS 27 extensively, copying
recipes from other sources and writing down his own. Although otherwise unknown, Martin is notable for having hidden some of his notes in cipher. While alchemists were famous for their secretiveness, I will argue that Martin’s use of ciphers represents a different sort of secret-keeping, one that stands to repay systematic study."

Agnieszka Rec, Yale


https://societasmagica.org/userfiles/fil...sue_31.pdf

Chymical Collections: Seventeenth Century textual transmutations in the work of Arthur Dee

Dissertation by Megan Piorko

"This dissertation is a biography of a text, Fasciculus Chemicus (1631). The seventeenth-century life of this text, from its inception to its vernacularization, sheds light on broader natural philosophical and textual issues inherent to alchemical knowledge-making."

https://scholarworks.gsu.edu/cgi/viewcon...story_diss

By Athanasios Rinotas

"Albertus Magnus’ alchemy is a subject that has attracted the attention of the scholars since the early decades of the 20th century. Yet, the research that has been conducted this far is characterised by its non philosophical character. As a matter of fact, the previous studies approached Albertus’ alchemy either in terms of history of science or of intellectual history. In this paper, I focus on Albertus’ definition of alchemical transmutation that is found in his De mineralibus and I analyze it in terms of his theory of creation and of his theory of matter"

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

By George MacDonald Ross

Full text:


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

To celebrate 350 years of scientific publishing, we are inviting our readers to tell us about their favourite papers from the Royal Society archive. Today Michael Hunter, Emeritus Professor of History at Birkbeck College, University of London tells us about a very strange paper from the archive.

"I have chosen what must be one of the strangest papers ever to appear in Philosophical Transactions. It is an alchemical text by Robert Boyle, published in 1676 under the rather transparent pseudonym ‘B.R.’"

https://royalsociety.org/blog/2015/07/al...nsactions/

As generated by AI:

https://creator.nightcafe.studio/creatio...J8tyztr1eB

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By Wendy J. Truran

"A careful reading of Yeats’s oeuvre reveals a form of poetic and affective alchemy that places the transformative capacity of joy at its heart."


https://www.academia.edu/49343443/Affect...esy_of_Joy

A novel about Mary Sidney by Naomi Miller.

https://www.allisonandbusby.com/book/imp...alchemist/

Podcast: https://www.buzzsprout.com/891835/8743767

"England, 1575. Young Mary Sidney is bearing a devastating loss while her father plans her alliance to Henry Herbert, Earl of Pembroke. But Mary is determined to make her mark on the world as a writer and scientist."



"Mary Sidney was the most educated woman in England, comparable only to Queen Elizabeth. She was fluent in Italian, French, and Latin, and probably Greek; played the lute and virginals; sang; had all the refinements of an aristocratic woman, such as medical training, falconry, hunting, court life, etc. She had an alchemy laboratory and was close with the leading ”magicians“ of the day, including John Dee and Giordano Bruno."

https://shakespeareanauthorshiptrust.org/mary-sidney

"par damoiselle M.M." (Marie Meurdrac)

"Marie Meurdrac (c. 1610 – 1680) was a French chemist and alchemist known for writing La Chymie Charitable et Facile, en Faveur des Dames [Easy Chemistry for Women]. It is through this book that her name has survived to the present day, and scholars have argued that this was the first work on chemistry or alchemy by a woman since that of Maria the Jewess in the late classical period. Historian Lucia Tosi described Meurdrac as the first woman to publish a book on early chemistry. Though she was reluctant to write, concerned about criticism from those who didn't believe women should receive an education, she was a proto-feminist, and believed that "minds have no sex."


https://archive.org/details/BIUSante_74616/mode/2up

https://scientificwomen.net/women/meurdrac-marie-68

Chemistry, Women, and Gender in the Enlightenment and the Era of Professional Science

Elena Serrano, Joris Mercelis & Annette Lykknes

Full text, from Ambix:

https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/pdf/10.1...22.2100954