The original 1818 text of Mary Shelley's classic novel, with annotations and essays highlighting its scientific, ethical, and cautionary aspects.

https://tinyurl.com/ytvz3fr4



Related essay by Alfred Nordmann:

Victor Frankenstein’s Technoscientific Dream of Reason

How is it that this premodern mystical alchemist appears so contemporary today?

https://thereader.mitpress.mit.edu/victo...of-reason/

Over 150 lightweight but well-illustrated and well-written articles on alchemy at Ancient Origins:

https://www.ancient-origins.net/searchall/alchemy

"The Rosarium Philosophorum, a 16th-century alchemical text, offers a profound map for this very journey. Often overshadowed by its cryptic language and intricate woodcut illustrations, it serves as much more than a manual for turning lead into gold. It invites us to consider the alchemical process as a reflection of our inner lives – a symbolic guide to navigating the cycles of disintegration and renewal that define human existence."

Dr. Michael Sebastian

https://medium.com/@babunow99/alchemy-of...6f33531d34

English translation of the text here:
https://archive.org/details/EnglishTrans...losophorum

Creative Alchemy

The Royal Art as a Spiritual-Creative Process

Taught by Marlene Seven Bremner
Live on Zoom*
Thursdays at 5 pm MT
January 23 - February 20

https://marlenesevenbremner.com/courses

https://www.instagram.com/m7artist/p/DEF3px2SkCS/

"This 1462 Kräuterbuch (“Book of Herbs”) by Johannes Hartlieb enfolds, verbatim, much of Konrad von Megenberg’s Buch der Natur, published a century earlier and considered by scholars to be the first natural history written in German. (The Buch der Natur itself reworked herbals by Thomas of Cantimpré and Albert Magnus, who, in turn, borrowed heavily from Arabic botanical handbooks.) Unlike its predecessors, however, Harlieb’s volume features 160 illustrations abreast textual descriptions of the plants’ medicinal uses, and is thought to be the only fully illustrated herbal from the incunabula period of German history."


https://publicdomainreview.org/collectio...-of-herbs/

Barbara Obrist.

Les débuts de l'imagerie alchimique: XIV-XV siecles. Paris: Le Sycomore / Féodalisme, 1992. First Edition. Softcover, Octavo. 328 pp. [+72 pp of plates] . Printed glossy card covers with flaps. B&W and colour illustrations. FRENCH TEXT. A scholarly study of the birth of alchemical iconography in mediaeval Europe, during the fourteenth and early fifteenth centuries. 

https://www.weiserantiquarian.com/pages/...xv-siecles

"One of the oldest tarot decks ever created, the Sola Busca is known for its alchemical symbolism and for having inspired many of the minor arcana of the Rider-Waite-Smith deck."

https://artisantarot.com/shop/p/sola-bus...n1PQ9rl1rh

"What if the rise of ancient empires wasn’t only about warfare or strategy, but rooted in the forgotten secrets of alchemy? Discover 'The Forgotten Role of Alchemy in Ancient Empires' and its profound influence on science, medicine, philosophy, and spirituality."

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dM9xIuSW87k

Well-illustrated and informative but negative view of Newton's alchemical activities:

https://thonyc.wordpress.com/2024/12/25/...alchemist/

"Probably the most prolific alchemists in the [Ruthven] family were ... William and Patrick. William was reputed to have the alchemists’ Holy Grail, the ‘Philosophers Stone’. Patrick Ruthven’s alchemical notebook, known as his commonplace book, is preserved at the University of Edinburgh, and contains much correspondence, diagrams, tables, symbols, and information on various alchemical processes; which clearly highlight his knowledge of the art; both in a practical, but perhaps more importantly for this discussion, a spiritual sense. As will be demonstrated, their brother John, the third Earl of Gowrie, also had an extremely keen interest in occult subjects, and it is proposed that this interest, may have been at least one of the reasons behind the incident which took place in Perth, and which has aptly been described ever since, as the ‘Gowrie House Mystery’. Mysterious indeed, by dint of the fact no one has ever satisfactorily resolved it."


https://www.thesquaremagazine.com/mag/ar...e-mystery/