By Sarah Hutton.

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"In this essay, I consider where alchemy sits in the spectrum of interests that make up women's knowledge in early modern Europe by considering evidence from a group of women whose work is not usually discussed in relation to alchemy: namely, philosophers. I shall examine the writings of Oliva Sabuco (b. 1562), Anne Conway (1631–1679), and Margaret Cavendish (1623–1673) to discover what their philosophy reveals about their engagement with alchemy and other branches of knowledge, such as medicine and pharmacology. In so doing, I argue that women not only had practical knowledge in these areas, but also engaged with them at a theoretical level."

https://muse.jhu.edu/article/788022

https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/conway/

The painting below, by Samuel van Hoogstraten, is believed to be a portrait of Anne Conway (in the background!!!)

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Laura Van Dyke.

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“An Eco-Alchemical Vision: Hermetic Writing in Twentieth-Century British Literature” examines the intersection of alchemical thinking with contemporary green discourses. This project focuses on four writers from the last century: W. B. Yeats, Charles Williams, Lindsay Clarke, and Patrick Harpur. It considers a wide selection of their writing across literary genres, including the novel, the short story, the essay and poetry. While each of the texts under consideration figures the relationship between the human and the nonhuman world in different ways, reading them alongside one another reveals a shared preoccupation with the status of the
material world. For these writers, the alchemical tradition offers a way of both speaking and thinking about physical phenomena that affirms our complex entanglement with materiality. Like the medieval and Renaissance alchemists, all four writers seek to disrupt the rigidity of the boundaries often erected between what dominant modes of thinking in the Western philosophic tradition have categorized as organic and inorganic.

https://ruor.uottawa.ca/bitstream/10393/...thesis.pdf

By Maureen Roberts.

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https://www.erudit.org/fr/revues/ron/199.../005734ar/

By William Gorski.

At Scribd:

https://www.scribd.com/document/45551748...iam-Gorski

In Indian mythology, mercury has a cosmic origin: it derives from the semen of the god Shiva. In this Indian Pahari painting from about 1770, a horse-riding virgin entices mercury out of a well and then over to an outdoor alchemical festival shown at top right.

Credit: Skulpturensammlung und Museum
 für Byzantinische Kunst, Staatliche / Sammlung L. Habighorst, Koblenz

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pahari_painting

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Lyndall Abraham

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Lepidus: Your serpent of Egypt is bred now of your mud by the operation of your sun: so is your crocodile. (II.vii.26-7) The phrase "the operation of your sun" is a distinctly alchemical term. It refers to the opus alchymicum as a whole and is first known to occur in one of the oldest and most famous alchemical documents, the Emerald Table: "What I have said concerning the operation of the Sun is finished." The Tabula Smaragdina or Emerald Table, ascribed to Hermes Trismegistus or the Egyptian Thoth, was not only one of the most important sources of medieval alchemy, but continued to be considered as the basis of alI alchemical law by alchemists right through to the seventeenth century.


5 pages. Open access.

https://openjournals.library.sydney.edu....e/view/390

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Maria K. Papathanassiou Department of Mathematics University of Athens



https://rosa.uniroma1.it/rosa01/medicina.../view/1422

SPREADING THE DAO, MANAGING MASTERSHIP, AND PERFORMING SALVATION: THE LIFE AND ALCHEMICAL TEACHINGS OF CHEN ZHIXU

Wm. Clarke Hudson

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https://www.proquest.com/openview/4021c5...&cbl=18750

By Chang Po-tuan, With a Concise Commentary by Liu I-ming, Translated from the Chinese by Thomas Cleary

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https://uhpress.hawaii.edu/title/underst...al-classic

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Verse and Transmutation: A Corpus of Middle English Alchemical Poetry identifies and investigates a corpus of twenty-one anonymous recipes for the philosophers’ stone dating from the fifteenth century.


https://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/30123