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Radl, Em. Paracelsus. Eine Skizze seines Lebens. [1]
Ray, Praphulla Chandra. Chemical knowledge of the Hindus of old. [2]
Singer, Charles. Daniel of Morley and English Philosopher of the XIIth century. [3]
Haskins, Charles H. Michael Scot and Frederick II. [4]
Holmyard, E.J. A critical examination of Berthelot's work upon Arabic chemistry. [6]
Leroux, Lucien. Nicolas Lemery. [7]
Hopkins, A.J. A modern Theory of Alchemy. [7]
Davis T.L. The Autobiography of Denis Zachaire. [8]
Haskins, C.H. The "Alchemy" ascribed to Michael Scot. [10]
Browne, C.A. Scientific notes from the books and letters of John Winthrop Jr. (1606-1676). [11]
Steele, R. Practical Chemistry in the XIIth Century. [12]
Thorndike, L. Vatican Latin manuscripts in the history of science and medicine. [13]
Singer, D.W. Michael Scot and Alchemy. [13]
Thorndike, L. Seven salts of Hermes. [14]
Thorndike, L. Prospectus for a Corpus of medieval scientific literature in Latin. [14]
Kraus, P. Studien zu Jabir ibn Hayyan. [15]
Patterson, T.S. John Mayow in contemporary setting. [15]
Nierenstein, M. The early history of the first chemical reagent. [16]
Maynard, K. Science in early English literature (1550 to 1650). [17]
Nierenstein, M. Helvetius, Spinoza, and transmutation. [17]
Welborn, M.C. The errors of the doctors according to Friar Roger Bacon of the Minor Order. [18]
Fulton, J.F. Robert Boyle and his influence on thought in the seventeenth century. [18]
Wu, L.C. and Davis, T.L. An ancient Chinese treatise on Alchemy entitled Ts'an T'ung Ch'i. [18]
Nierenstein, M. and Chapman, P.F. Enquiry into the authorship of the Ordinall of Alchimy. [18]
Camden, C. Astrology in Shakespeare's day. [19]
Ruska, J. Die Alchemie des Avicenna [21]
Nierenstein, M. and Price, F. M. The identity of the MS entitled "Mr. Norton's worke, de lapide ph'orum" with the Ordinall of Alchimy. [21]
Partington, J.R. The discovery of Mosaic Gold. [21]
Stimson, D. Comenius and the Invisible College. [23]
Davis, T.L. The dualistic cosmogony of Huai-Nan-Tzu and its relations to the background of Chinese and European alchemy. [25]
Thorndike, L. Faust and Johann Virdung of Hassfurt. [26]
Pogo, A. Ioannes Nardius (ca. 1580-ca. 1655) [26]
Thorndike, L. The Secrets of Hermes. [27]
Shorr, P. Sir John Freind (1675-1728) pioneer historian of medicine. [27]
Davis, T.L. Pictorial representations of alchemical theory. [28]
Hopkins, A.J. A defence of Egyptian alchemy. [28]
Hopkins, A.J. A study of the Kerotakis process as given by Zosimus and later alchemical writers. [29]
Thorndike, L. A study in the analysis of complex scientific manuscripts. Sloane 3457: An important alchemical manuscript. [29]
Davis, T.L. and Chao Yun-Ts'ung. An alchemical poem by Kao Hsiang-Hsien [30]
Stimson, D. Amateurs of science in the 17th Century. [31]
Kibre, Pearl. The Alkimia minor ascribed to Albertus Magnus. [32]
Tallmadge, G. Kasten. The Perpetual Motion Machine of Mark Antony Zimara. [33]
Singer, Dorothea Waley. The Cosmology of Giordano Bruno. [33]
Thorndike, Lynn. Translations of Works of Galen from the Greek by Peter of Abano. [33]
Sarton, G. Remarks on the Theory of Temperaments. [34]
Kibre Pearl. An Alchemical tract attributed to Albertus Magnus. [35]
Cramer, Frederick. Some recent European Publications on Ancient Pseudo-science and its adversaries. [38]
Spooner, Roy C. and Wnag, C.H. The Divine Nine Turn Tan Sha Method, a Chinese alchemical recipe. [38]
Dubs, Homer H. The Beginnings of Alchemy. [38]
McCracken, George E. Athanasius Kircher's Universal Polygraphy. [39]
Pagel, Walter. Jung's Views on Alchemy. [39]
Duveen, Denis. James Price (1752-1783), Chemist and Alchemist. [41]
Boas, Marie. Boyle as a Theoretical Scientist. [41]
Kuhn, Thomas S. Newton's "31st Query" and the Degradation of Gold. [42]
Kuhn, Thomas S. Robert Boyle and Structural Chemistry in the Seventeenth Century. [43]
Merlan, Philip. Plotinus and Magic. [44]
Boas, Marie. An Early Version of Boyle's Sceptical Chymist. [45]
Multhauf, Robert P. John of Rupescissa and the Origin of Medical Chemistry. [45]
Plessner, M. The Place of the Turba Philosophorum in the Development of Alchemy. [45]
Levey, Martin; Krek, Moroslav and Haddad, Husni. Some notes on the Chemical Technology in an Eleventh Century Arabic Work on Bookbinding. [47]
Partington, J.R. The Life and Work of John Mayow (1641-1679). [47]
Mazzeo, Joseph A. Notes on John Donne's Alchemical Imagery. [48]
Cope, Jackson L. Evelyn, Boyle, and Dr. Wilkinson's "Mathematico-Chymico-Mechanical School". [50]
Larkin, Vincent R. (translator). St. Thomas Aquinas, On the Combining of tke Elements (translation). [51]
Levey, M. The earliest stages in the evolution of the still. [51]
Debus, Allen G. The Paracelsian Aerial Niter. [55]
Hartner, Willy. Notes on Picatrix. [56]
Reti, Ladislao. Parting of Gold and Silver with Nitric Acid in a page of the Codex Atlanticus of Leonardo da Vinci. [56]
Treloar, F. E. Ritual Objects Illustrating Indian Alchemy and Tantric Religious Practice. [58]
Grant, Edward. Medieval and Seventeenth Century Conceptions of an Infinite Void Space beyond the Cosmos. [60]
Aston, Margaret. The Fiery Trigon Conjunction: An Elizabethan Astrological Prediction. [61]
Debus, Allen G. Motion in the Chemical Texts of the Renaissance. [64]
Debus, Allen G. A Further not of Palingenesis: The Account of Ebenezar Sibly in the Illustration of Astrology (1792). [64]
Sivin, N. Chinese Alchemy and the Manipulation of Time. [67]
Dobbs, B. J. T. Newton Manuscripts at the Smithsonian Institution. [68]
Breiner, Lawrence A. The Career of the Cockatrice. [70]
Zetterberg, J. Peter. Hermetic Geocentricity: John Dee's Celestial Egg. [70]
Hutchinson, Keith. What happened to Occult Qualities in the Scientific Revolution? [73]
Dobbs, B. J. T. Newton's Alchemy and his Theory of Matter. [73]
Hannaway, Owen. Laboratory Designa dn the Aim of Science: Andreas Libavius versus Tycho Brahe. [77]
Grant, Edward. Celestial Orbs in the Latin Middle Ages. [78]
Newman, William. Newton's Clavis as Starkey's Key. [78]
Golinski, J. V. A Noble Spectacle: Phosphorus and the Public Culture of Science in the Early Royal Society. [80]
Newman, William. Technology and the Alchemical Debate in the Late Middle Ages. [80]