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Abie

"I recently read The Secrets of Alchemy by Lawrence Principe, which I loved, especially because he tries to replicate ancient alchemical recipes in his own lab. And sometimes he succeeds!
For instance, he attempts to make the “sulfur of antimony” by following the instructions in The Triumphal Chariot of Antimony (Der Triumph-Wagen Antimonii), written by an alchemist named Basil Valentine7 sometime around the year 1600. At first, all Principe gets is a “dirty gray lump”.
Then he realizes the recipe calls for “Hungarian antimony,” so instead of using pure lab-grade antimony, he literally orders some raw Eastern European ore, and suddenly the reaction works! It turns out the Hungarian dirt is special because it contains a bit of silicon dioxide, something Basil Valentine couldn’t have known."
#histsci #histchem #alchemy
press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/b

University of Chicago PressThe Secrets of AlchemyIn The Secrets of Alchemy, Lawrence M. Principe, one of the world’s leading authorities on the subject, brings alchemy out of the shadows and restores it to its important place in human history and culture. By surveying what alchemy was and how it began, developed, and overlapped with a range of ideas and pursuits, Principe illuminates the practice. He vividly depicts the place of alchemy during its heyday in early modern Europe, and then explores how alchemy has fit into wider views of the cosmos and humanity, touching on its enduring place in literature, fine art, theater, and religion as well as its recent acceptance as a serious subject of study for historians of science. In addition, he introduces the reader to some of the most fascinating alchemists, such as Zosimos and Basil Valentine, whose lives dot alchemy’s long reign from the third century and to the present day. Through his exploration of alchemists and their times, Principe pieces together closely guarded clues from obscure and fragmented texts to reveal alchemy’s secrets, and—most exciting for budding alchemists—uses them to recreate many of the most famous recipes in his lab, including those for the “glass of antimony” and “philosophers’ tree.” This unique approach brings the reader closer to the actual work of alchemy than any other book.
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Malleus

I had a trance over the winter and the contents were instructions on how to build a kind of wand. The materials and form were specified by the #goddess. Today that device was constructed. It has ceremonial as well as practical uses. It is a kind of antenna that channels the voices of the dead. It is also a will bending tool, and you know, something to help an old guy out. Praise #Hathor ! Thanks to the #goddess for sharing the arcane knowledge with me. It is called the Sceptre of Min. Min is her pet name for me. I can't wait to try it out!

#alchemy
#CrystalAlchemy

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PseudoNovalis

Good and Bad NeWS about E T H E R

From this side of the Coast, my last 5 copies via bandcamp (sending from SPAIN):

afrikapseudobruitismus1.bandca

Today a box with 17 copies was sent to US.
But damn... in Postal Office: an unexpected NEW TAX-SHIT! for sendings to US :ohnobubble:

If I wanted the box to arrive faster I'd have to pay 150€ for shipping!
So will take 1 month instead.
SORRY...

#Emblematica#collage#Pataphysics
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Ele Willoughby, PhD

Mercury, final prompt for #printerSolstice2425, made me think of #alchemy. It is an element the alchemists favoured & felt was fundamental in their efforts to transmute base into precious metals, both in western & Chinese alchemy (from whence western alchemy emerged).

This is my #linocut portrait of an #alchemist known as Master Geng (before ~975, 耿先生; Gěng Xiānshēng, sometimes Kêng Hsien-shêng). 🧵1/n

Inspired by Song Dynasty Chinese painting this is my linocut portrait of Geng Xiansheng outlined in black on ivory paper, seated at a table with alchemical furnace, vessels cups by a building and bamboo plants covered in snow. She has a flower in her hair and wears a green robe. The vessels are red, and blue. The bamboo is green with black. The roof of the building lintel has a red stripe below a pattern of blue and green.
#printmaking#sciart#histsci
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PseudoNovalis

LIBER ETHER OuT NoW!

¿PATAPHYSICA?
Conocerás más (y entenderás menos) acerca del ETHER patafísico, la ETHERNIDAD, el CLINAMEN, o el concepto MERDRE*

afrikapseudobruitismus1.bandca

98 págs tutti Technicolor.
33 copias

Half of the copies will be sent to USA
Contact bro @SirDockBunson
member of LA RESISTANCE INTERNACIONAL+

9 Copias remaining in Costacabana (Españaña)

#Emblematica#collage#Pataphysics
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Pottery by Osa

I just finished writing an article about working with #wildclay terra sigillata that’ll be out in The Studio Potter, March 1. This is one of my favorite examples I shared: Light-green #clay sample from Abiquiu, NM, refined to terra sig, painted on two test tiles, one fired to cone 04 (left) and the other fired to cone 6 (right). The iron in the clay oxidizes and reveals itself as dark red at a lower temp, then melts & vitrifies into a green glaze at a higher temp. #alchemy #experimentation

Square photo, closeup flat-lay of three objects against a gray cement floor. Top center, a small pile of light-green clay from Abiquiu, NM. Directly below, two rounded ceramic testi tiles brushed with a refined slip called terra sigillata, made from the clay sample above. The one on the left was fired to cone 04 (a lower temperature) and is a dark, iron red color. The tile on the right was fired to cone 6 (a higher temperature) and is a semi-glossy and semi-translucent light green.
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ZfdG

Und aller guten Dinge sind zwei:

Sarah Langs "Fine-Tuning Machine Learning with Historical Data. An Alchemical Object Detection Dataset for Early Modern Scientific Illustrations" berichtet über die Herausforderung, Darstellungen alchemistischer Laborgeräte in frühneuzeitlichen Drucken zu annotieren, um darauf einen Objekterkennungsalgorithmus zu trainieren - und ist das zweite Data Paper in der #ZfdG :

doi.org/10.17175/2025_002 #dh #DigitalHumanities #alchemy #machinelearning

@sarahalang

doi.orgFine-Tuning Machine Learning with Historical Data. An Alchemical Object Detection Dataset for Early Modern Scientific Illustrations | ZfdG - Zeitschrift für digitale GeisteswissenschaftenThis data paper examines the challenges and considerations involved in making pixel-level annotations to fine-tune a computer vision / object detection algorithm for recognising alchemical laboratory apparatus in early modern printed manuals.
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PseudoNovalis

ETHER is Real! ⚡⚡⚡
even sooner than expected;
Liber ETHER is on printing process, arriving to Costacabana Surf Lodge (Españaña) around next 28 feb!

afrikapseudobruitismus1.bandca

98 págs tutti Technicolor.
33 copias

NOTA:
half of the copies will be sent to USA
so if that option is better for you contact bro @SirDockBunson
member of LA RESISTANCE INTERNACIONAL+

Pseudo-Myscelanea COSTA ARKCHIVES ⓀETHER / Emblemática Patafísica by PseudoNovalis from Pseudo-Myscelanea COSTA ARKCHIVES ⓀETHER / Emblemática Patafísica by PseudoNovalis from Pseudo-Myscelanea COSTA ARKCHIVES Ⓚ
#Emblematica#collage#Pataphysics
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50+ Music

"Romeo and Juliet" is a #rock song by the British rock band #DireStraits, written by frontman #MarkKnopfler. It first appeared on the 1980 album #MakingMovies and was released as a single in 1981. The song subsequently appeared on the Dire Straits live albums #Alchemy and #OnTheNight, and later on Knopfler's live duet album with #EmmylouHarris, #RealLiveRoadrunning (though Harris does not perform on the track).
youtube.com/watch?v=rC95MEenIxA

YouTubeDire Straits - Romeo And Juliet (Official Music Video)By DireStraitsVEVO
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