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  Free book: Jack Lindsay's Origins of Alchemy
Posted by: Paul Ferguson - 08-08-2024, 01:50 PM - Forum: Reviews and book notices - No Replies

Apparently rights-free:

https://archive.org/details/OthmerMS2/mode/2up

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  Alchemical miscellany from the Topp Othmer Library
Posted by: Paul Ferguson - 08-08-2024, 01:37 PM - Forum: Alchemy texts - Replies (1)

"Donald F. and Mildred Topp Othmer Library of Chemical History, Othmer MS 2. Northern Italy, Between 1450 and 1475. This manuscript contains a miscellany of practical and theoretical alchemical texts with a full-page drawing of alchemical instruments."

https://archive.org/details/OthmerMS2/mode/2up

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  Podcast: Nostoc or Star Jelly
Posted by: Paul Ferguson - 08-08-2024, 12:54 AM - Forum: Articles on alchemy - No Replies

Thanks to its seemingly supernatural appearance with the nocturnal dew, the alchemists assigned an elevated role to nostoc, calling it “the water of the equinoxes.”


See 'Episode 88: Electric Fairy Rings and the Slime from Space' here:

https://www.boneandsickle.com/tag/folk-belief/

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

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  Jungian: James Hillman and alchemy (in French)
Posted by: Paul Ferguson - 08-08-2024, 12:34 AM - Forum: Articles on alchemy - No Replies

Étudiant «The Therapeutical Value of Alchemical Language», dans une conférence donnée à Rome en 1977, publiée dans Dragonflies en 1978.

https://doi.org/10.7202/1103200ar


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

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  John Ward glossary
Posted by: Paul Ferguson - 08-07-2024, 03:01 PM - Forum: Alchemy texts - No Replies

This article features two glossaries of the Latin words and abbreviations in the diaries of John Ward, Folger MS V.a.284 -299. The words are all associated with medical receipts. At the bottom of the article are links to a cribsheet for John Ward's handwriting, several sites that depict alchemical symbols, and a Greek keyboard. John Ward was the vicar of Stratford-upon-Avon from 1662 to 1681. The Folger Shakespeare Library has 16 of his 17 diaries.


https://folgerpedia.folger.edu/John_Ward%27s_Latin

See also:

https://wellcomecollection.org/works/j2hpv4r7

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  Bruce Janacek: Alchemical Belief
Posted by: Paul Ferguson - 08-07-2024, 02:51 PM - Forum: Reviews and book notices - Replies (1)

"What did it mean to believe in alchemy in early modern England? In this book, Bruce Janacek considers alchemical beliefs in the context of the writings of Thomas Tymme, Robert Fludd, Francis Bacon, Sir Kenelm Digby, and Elias Ashmole."

E-book forthcoming:

https://www.degruyter.com/document/isbn/...ml?lang=de

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  Starkey's Alchemical Laboratory Notebooks
Posted by: Paul Ferguson - 08-07-2024, 09:39 AM - Forum: Reviews and book notices - No Replies

"George Starkey—chymistry tutor to Robert Boyle, author of immensely popular alchemical treatises, and probably early America's most important scientist—reveals in these pages the daily laboratory experimentation of a seventeenth-century alchemist.The editors present in this volume transcriptions of Starkey's texts, their translations, and valuable commentary for the modern reader. Dispelling the myth that alchemy was an irrational enterprise, this remarkable collection of laboratory notebooks and correspondence reveals the otherwise hidden methodologies of one of the seventeenth century's most influential alchemists."

https://www.perlego.com/book/1975024/alc...ndence-pdf

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  Lambspring's Alchemistisches Lehrgedicht 1556
Posted by: Paul Ferguson - 08-07-2024, 09:30 AM - Forum: Alchemy texts - No Replies

"There is a copy of Lambspring's Book in the original German language, with some parts in Latin, dating from 1556. It includes a posthumous dedication to Hermannus Marsoui Ecclesiae Doreptensis superintendens. This alchemical manuscript is in the Central Library of Zurich in Switzerland." - Wiki.

Download via pdf button:

https://www.e-manuscripta.ch/zuz/doi/10....ripta-6275

Facsimile available from Ziereis here:

https://www.facsimiles.com/contact/alche...ehrgedicht

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  New app: Bookey
Posted by: Paul Ferguson - 08-07-2024, 09:19 AM - Forum: Reviews and book notices - No Replies

Unlock big ideas from bestsellers in 30 mins audio, text, and mind map.

https://bk3w.bookey.app/

Example- Jung's Psychology and Alchemy:

https://bk3w.bookey.app/book/psychology-and-alchemy

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  From Alchemist to Counterfeiter: Glazier Wheeler
Posted by: Paul Ferguson - 08-07-2024, 09:15 AM - Forum: Articles on alchemy - No Replies

"The year was 1789 when an old man shoveled dirt onto two hefty barrels of silver, hidden away in a cave on the roaring banks of the Swift River in Massachusetts. He needed to bury his treasure, because he had procured it by means that were considered illegal and, at one point, mystical. This old man was Glazier Wheeler, once a blacksmith and engraver, but the town of Dana knew him as 'the alchemist'."


https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/al...terfeiting

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