1 Alchemy, nature

Barnes, William Henry. Chinese influence on Western alchemy. Nature 135, no. 3420 (18 May 1935) 824-825. 

Dalai, S., Balasubramanian, S., Regan, L. Protein alchemy changing p sheet into a helix. Nature Struct. Biol. 

It is Luther s mode of interpretation, however, that facilitated the development of his alchemical theosophy of Christ as the Ruah-Elohim, the quintessential Spirit of Nature and the creative Principle of alchemy. Metaphors of Christ as the philosopher s stone had been... 

Nonetheless, the few potent alchemical medicines that he did advocate reveal his unorthodox religious views. At the heart of Fludd s alchemy is the recipe for a red elixir which he described as being a catholic, that is, a universal medicine. It was the quintessence of both Nature and of the human soul, being permeated by the Holy Spirit of the resurrected Christ." It was said to be the alchemical equivalent of human blood, a tincture extracted from the red-oil of wheat. 

Allegory of Alchemy, Stefan Michelspacher, Cabala Spiegel der Kunst und Natur (Augsburg David Francke, 1616), first engraving. With the permission of the British Library, London. 

Pseudo-Democritus. "From The treatise of Democritus On things natural and mystical." In The alchemy reader, ed. Stanton J. Linden, 38-43., 2003. 

The Natural round Physick or Philosophy of the Alchymical Cabalistical Vision. rhttp //www.levitv.com/alchemy/ alchcab.htmll. 

Bacon, Roger. "Of the medicine or tincture of alchemy." In Of natural and supernatural things, ed. Basil Valentine, 152-181. London , 1671. 

Newton, Isaac. "Of natures obvious laws and processes in vegetation." In Alchemical death and resurrection the significance of alchemy in the age of Newton, ed. Betty Jo Teeter Dobbs. Washington Smithsonian Institution Libraries, 1990. 

Kirchweger, Anton Joseph. Aurea Catena Homeri (The Golden Chain of Homerus) that is the description of Nature and natural things. San Francisco (CA) Alchemy Books/ Sapere Aude Metaphysical Republishers, 1985. 150p. ISBN 0-931290-93-7... 

Madathanus, Hinricus. Cosmology, or universal science. Cabala. Alchemy. Containing the mysteries of the universe, regarding God Nature Man, the macrocosm and microcosm, eternity and time explained according to the religion of Christ, by means of The secret symbols of the Rosicrucians of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. 

Paracelsus.The archidoxes of magic Of the supreme mysteries of nature Of the spirits of the planets Of the secrets of alchemy Of occult philosophy The mysteries of the twelve signs of the zodiack The magical cure of diseases Of celestial medicines / Paracelsus [translated from the Latin by Robert Turner], 2nd English ed. [i.e. 1st English ed. reprinted ed. Translated by Robert Turner. London 1656 reprint, London New York Askin Publishers Samuel Weiser, 1975. 162, [29] p. 

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