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The alchemist and the inkhorner in early modern England - Paul Ferguson - 03-27-2026
'Alcumists of eloquence': The alchemist and the inkhorner in early modern England
By Emily Rowe
"This article examines the intersection of alchemical satire and linguistic critique in the late sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries, situating it within the context of the inkhorn controversy-a debate over linguistic excess and neologisms in Elizabethan England. Alchemical language, long characterized by its mystique and opacity, was a frequent target of satire, with writers like Thomas Nashe and Ben Jonson critiquing its inflated rhetoric as much as its failed transmutations."
https://www.academia.edu/111500602/Anatomy_of_seventeenth_century_alchemy_and_chemistry