Alchemia

Bacon, Roger. "[Speculum alchemiae] Speculum alchymiae the true glass of alchemy.. . " In Collectanea chymica, ed. William Cooper, 123]-133. London Printed for William Cooper, at the Pelican in Little Britain, 1683. 

Bacon, Roger. [Speculum alchemiae] The Mirror of Alchemy. rhttp //www.sacred-texts.com/alc/mirror.html. 

Bacon, Roger. [Speculum alchemiae] The mirror of alchemy. .. with the Smaragine table of Hermes Trismegistus of alchemy. Los Angeles (CA) Press of the Pegacycle Lady, for the Globe Bookstore, 1975. 18p. 

Bacon, Roger. [Speculum alchemiae] The mirror of alchimy composed by the thrice- famous and learned fryer, Roger Bachon / edited by Stanton J. Linden. English Renaissance hermeticism, no. 4. New York Garland, 1992. 

Bacon, Roger. "[Speculum alchemiae]The second book of Roger Bachon called, Speculum Alchimiae." In Medicina practica, ed. William Salmon, 621-642. London , 1707. 

Karpenko, Vladimir. Die Edelgeborne. Jungfer Alchemia. the final stage of European alchemy. Bull Hist Chem 25, no. 1 (2000) 50-63. 

Alchemia antiquus et contempora. Alchem Lab Bulls, no. 5 (Q4 1960). rhttp //www.spagyria.com/alb.zipl. 

In plates 5 and 6 we give illustrations of some characteristic pieces of apparatus employed by the alchemists. Plate 5, fig. A and plate 6, fig. A are from a work known as Alchemiae Gebri (1545) plate 5, fig. B, is from Glauber s work on Furnaces (1651) and plate 6, fig. B, is from a work by Dr. John French entitled The Art of Distillation (1651). 

It is the growth, development, and transformation into chemistry, of this alchemia which we have to consider. 

In metaphysical terms, the material world presents itself to the modern Alchemist as a flux of contingent events and relative objects. As metaphysics, or supernatural perceptions, these variously named processes of purification indicate the mind-set separating the modern pseudoscience I Alchirnie from medieval Alchemia. If, as the modern neo-Alchemist believes, the quintessence of these essentially symbolic materials can be refined, then the purity and wholeness of our universe will remain in refulgent Absoluteness and Unity. Therefore, success in attaining the metaphoric gold of philosophers was more often than not taken to be a symbol of visionary attainment of Unity with the One. 

According to wholly standard explanations of alchemical terminology contained in Martinus Rulandus s Lexicon alchemiae (1612), in a larger symbolic sense the motif called the Stripping of Diana —the motif that appeared in Stolzius poem and is shown in fig. 9—stands for the Joy of the Philosophers, or Gaudium Philosophorum. As Rulandus explains. 

Rulandus, Martin. Lexikon alchemiae.. . . Frankfort, 1612 trans. A Lexikon of Alchemy, by Martin Ruland, the Elder. Ed. A. E. Waite. London Watkins, 1964 [cited here]. 

Albertus Magnus, De alchemia (Theatrum chemicum), Argentorati, 2. 423, 1659,... 

Alchemiae Oebri, etc. Bern, 1545, pp. 223-227. There has been much doubt as to the identity and date of this Richard, but the strong probability is that he died in 1252. Cf. Ferguson, Bibliotheca Chemica, II. 

The subjects of the metals, their properties, and the operation for their preparation so important in all early chemistry are naturally extensively treated. Isidorus is cited 20 There are seven kinds of metals, namely, gold, silver, copper (aes), electrum, tin, lead and iron which subdues all things. The Alchemia de Anima of (pseudo-) Avicenna is quoted 2T... 

From another work Doctrina Alchemiae Vincent also quotes ... 

E. v. Lippmann considers the alchemistic works attributed to Bacon, Brever Breviarium, Tractatus Trium Ver-torium, Speculum Alchemiae—as clearly pseudepigrapha.84 Yet is is upon these books that Bacon s reputation as a... 

The omission of the other names is significant, as works of alchemical nature attributed to those men were at later dates very much esteemed, on account of the high reputation of the men as scholars and it seems safe to infer that if works like the Libellus de Alchemia, etc., attributed to Albertus, or the Speculum, Alchemiae, Breve Breviarium de Bono Dei, De Arte Chemiae, credited to Roger Bacon, or the various alchemical works credited to Arnaldus of Villanova, were then extant, that so conscientious a student of authorities as Petrus Bonus would not have been likely to have omitted them. 

Lexicon alchemiae, sive Dictionarium alchemisticum, Franco-furtensium Repub., 1612. 

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