Seton, Alexander

Seton, Alexander. "Philosophical enigma." In Lives of the alchemystical philosophers, ed. Francis Barrett, 182-186., 1814. 

Seton, Alexander ( ). "An epigram concerning the Philosophers Stone by Alex, de S. to Gulielmus Blancus." In A golden and blessed casket of Nature s marvels, ed. Benedictus Figulus, l]-[2], 1893. 

Small, J. Sketches of later Scottish alchemists John Napier of Merchiston - Robert Napier - Sir David Lindsay, First Earl of Balcarres - Patrick Ruthven - Alexander Seton -and Patrick Scot. Proc Soc Antiq Scot 11, no. 2 (1875-1876) 410-438. 

Hubicki, Wlodzimierz. "The mystery of Alexander Seton the Cosmopolite." In CIHS14, ii, 397-400.. ... 

Spence, Lewis. An East Lothian alchemist. Scottish Rev (Spring 1915) 101-106. Alexander Seton... 

A play about Alexander Seton. "This play, by the Edinburgh playwright, Andrew Dallmeyer, was performed in the early 1980 s at the Theatre Workshop in Edinburgh. Andrew Dallmeyer has written many plays for the theatre and radio, and is a well known Scottish writer"... 

Pseudonym used at various times by Alexander Seton, Michael Sendivogius and Eirenaeus Philalethes. 

Dee had many other reasons for his journey to Europe beside the desire to spread the knowledge of alchemy. But by the 17th century, many dchemists began to travel with that purpose chiefly in mind. Wandering emissaries appeared at various places on the continent. They would arrive unannounced in some town, make contact with the local alchemists, instruct them in the secrets of transmutation, and disappear again. The first of these was Alexander Seton, a Scot. 

Above Christian II of Saxony, before whom Alexander Seton made a snccessful transmutation. The Elector was determined to discover his secret, and when Seton refused to tell him, had him tortured. 

Above Michael Sendivogius in a stylized portrait published in 1624. His early career is obscure. It has been reported that he was the natural son of a Polish nobleman, but certainly he had no success in alchemy until he encountered Alexander Seton. 

A somewhat exceptional position in the gamut of alchemical adepts must be assigned to the Polish nobleman and alchemist, Michael Sendivogius, whose romantic story is inextricably bound up with that of Alexander Seton, a reputed Scottish alchemist who has been termed thc chief martyr of alchemy. ... 

These were, of course, all published texts. But Eglinus wrote also of alchemical information that had come to him privately. He had, Eglinus wrote to Zwinger in 1603, been fully instructed by the Scot (Scotus Comes), (i.e. Alexander Sidonius or Seton) in the commutation of the mercury of satum into silver by means of the extract of the spirit of the moon (i.e. silver). He had also come to know Angelo Sala (c. 1575-1637), who is able to make a universal medicine from a fixed body and the universal spirit of the world, and this not by a metamorphosis of metals. At least in the case of Sala, it is clear that Eglinus meant to refer to a personal contact, and he notes that Sala would have communicated to him not only the theory but also the... 

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