Alchemy

Othmer Library Open House: Escape the Archives

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Philadelphia Inquirer: Scans Reveal Secrets of Medieval 'Harry Potter' Book and Medical Texts at Penn
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WHYY: Age of Alchemy a "Must-See New Art Exhibit"
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Age of Alchemy: Curator Elisabeth Berry Drago Discusses Exhibition Highlights and Myth Busting in Alchemy’s Golden Age

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The Alchemist and His Wife, ca. 1928, by Jacques Hammerer, after 17th-century original by David Ryckaert III.

Science History Institute Debuts New Exhibition Friday, May 4
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The Alchemist and His Wife, ca. 1928, by Jacques Hammerer, after 17th-century original by David Ryckaert III.

Age of Alchemy Exhibition Opening

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The Alchemist and His Wife, ca. 1928, by Jacques Hammerer, after 17th-century original by David Ryckaert III.

Age of Alchemy
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Technical.ly: Philly Orgs Get $100K Grant to Make Video Game about . . . Alchemy
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Chemical Heritage Foundation to Receive National Endowment for the Humanities Grant
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Megan Piorko

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First Friday: Alchemical Storytime

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The Alchemist in His Study with a Woman Making Lace

The Art Detective

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A 16th-century engraving of an alchemist adding a scorpion to a mixture. (Wellcome Library)

The Language of Alchemy

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Ute Frietsch

Ute Frietsch

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We Used to Have Fun

First Friday: We Used to Have Fun

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Behind the Beaker
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Hiro Hirai

Hiro Hirai

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Philadelphia Science Festival
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Isaac Newton alchemical manuscript

Isaac Newton and the American Alchemist

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Bruce Moran

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Historical Biographies
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The Alchemical Quest
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Rare Books
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James R. Voelkel

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Elisabeth Berry Drago

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Painting Like It’s 1699

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Recipes and Extracts on Alchemy, Medicine, Metal-Working, Cosmetics, Veterinary Science, Agriculture, Wine-Making, and Other Subjects

The Philosophers’ Stove

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Atalanta fugiens by Michael Maier

Maidens and Other Marvels

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Ibn Butlan’s Risalat da`wat al-atibba

Al-Kimiya: Notes on Arabic Alchemy

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The Bald-Headed Alchemist, after David Teniers II, 17th century, oil on panel. Gift of Fisher Scientific International.

The Secrets of Alchemy

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Trial by Fire

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Recherches Chimiques

Materials Matter

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X-ray fluorescence scanning is used to uncover the secrets of Thomas Wijck’s The Alchemist.

Double Vision

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Deborah Harkness

Facts and Fictions

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Novum Organum

Roads to Revolution

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Detail from An Alchemist’s Laboratory

Gold, Secrecy, and Prestige

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Alchemical Reflection

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Query 31 in Opticks

Last Words

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Mark of Pierre Viart

Of Woodcuts and Metalcuts

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Detail of frontispiece from The Herball or Generall Historie of Plantes

London Calling

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A Revolution in the Scientific Revolution

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Political Potions

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A depiction of Jābir ibn Hayyan, after a 15th century portrait.

What’s in a Name?

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Tyrocinium chymicum

Liar, Liar, Lead on Fire

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Paracelsus Portrait

Paracelsus, Healer of the German Reformation

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Party Spirits

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Playing It Safe?

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Making Modernity exhibition at the Museum at CHF.

Images of Modernity

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Natural Magick

Laws of Attraction

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Ptolemaic armillary sphere

Out of Obscurity

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Pandora, That Is, the Noblest Gift of God

Pandora’s Secrets

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In the Middle Ages, St. Thomas Aquinas helped create the Western model of university education. Aquinas’s teacher Albertus Magnus wrote on alchemy and was so famous that many books he didn’t write were attributed to him, including the Liber secretorum. (R

Albertus Magnus, Mineralogy, and the Secrets of Women

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Arabic astronomers

Seek Knowledge as Far as China

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Sceptical Chymist title page

Alchemists, Unite!

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<em>De re metallica libri XII</em>
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<em>Atalanta fugiens</em>
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<em>De la pirotechnia libri X</em>
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<em>Alchimia</em>
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The Shannon Portrait of the Hon. Robert Boyle F. R. S., by Johann Kerseboom, 1689. Science History Institute/Will Brown

Robert Boyle
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