Section outline

  • Topics:

    ·      alchemy and cosmology

    ·      mechanics of alchemy

    ·      alchemy and science

     

    Readings:

    ·      Edmonds, Drawing Down the Moon, ch. 9

    ·      Alchemy Readings

    ·      Zosimus, On Excellence

    ·      Zosimus, On the Letter Omega

    ·      Ogden 46

    ·      PGM XII 193-201

    ·      Jung, Visions of Zosimus

     

    Supplementary Readings:

    ·      Hershbell, Democritus and The Beginnings of Greek Alchemy

    ·      Martelli, The Alchemical Art of Dyeing

    ·      Stolzenberg, Unpropitious Tinctures

    ·      Taylor, A Survey of Greek Alchemy

    ·      Ps. Democritus Physika & Mystika

    ·      Synesius to Dioscorus on Democritus

    ·      Caley, The Leyden Papyrus X

    ·      Caley, The Stockholm Papyrus