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News from our contributors / Netzwerk Alchemie

We are happy to welcome a new addition to our website: In her article Rubens’ Portrait of Paracelsus, Teresa Esposito points out Rubens’ connections to the philosophical aspects of alchemy such as the imitation of nature and the principles of generation, represented in his painting of the famous physician and alchemist Paracelsus. We are also […]

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Donna Bilak and Tara Nummedal were delighted that their co-edited book, Furnace and Fugue: A Digital Edition of Michael Maier’s Atalanta fugiens (1618) with Scholarly Commentary (Univ. of Virginia Press), was awarded the 2022 Roy Rosenzweig Prize for Innovation in Digital History, sponsored jointly by the American Historical Association and the Roy Rosenzweig Center for […]

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New contribution by Rainer Werthmann

A new contribution by Rainer Werthmann was added to the platform. In his article ‘Heinrich Khunraths Philosophischer Athanor, 1599/1603’, Werthmann elaborates on the design for a new type of alchemical furnace, presented, and praised by the physician and alchemist Heinrich Khunrath (c 1560-1605). Read in detail how liquid fuel and an innovative built helped make […]

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Our project was awarded the Bethmann Study Prize 2021!

As we are happy to announce, on Tuesday, June 28, 2022, our project “Matthäus Merian d.Ä. und die Bebilderung der Alchemie um 1600” was awarded the Johann Philipp von Bethmann-Study Prize 2021 by the Frankfurt Historical Commission. During the award ceremony which had originally been planned for the beginning of the year and had to […]

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Update: Editor of Dyas chymica tripartita

Our website’s article about the alchemical print Dyas chymica tripartita (1625) has been updated with clarifying information about its editor! We would like to thank Carlos Gilly who kindly brought to our attention that the man behind the pseudonym Hermannus Condeesyanus was not Johann Grasse, as we had previously transferred from the VD 17 catalogue, […]