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  • Week XI (November 9 & 11)  Alchemy

    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

     

    Supplementary Readings:

    • ·       Ps. Democritus Physika & Mystika
    • ·       Synesius to Dioscorus on Democritus
    • ·       Caley, The Leyden Papyrus X
    • ·       Caley, The Stockholm Papyrus
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    • ·       Dufault, Lessons from the Body: Alchemy and Spiritual Exercises
    • ·       Grimes, Secrets of the God Makers: Re-Thinking the Origins of Greco-Egyptian Alchemy
    • ·       Hershbell, Democritus and The Beginnings of Greek Alchemy
    • ·       Jung, Visions of Zosimus
    • ·       Martelli, The Alchemical Art of Dyeing
    • ·       Martelli, Greek Alchemists at Work
    • ·       Principe, Some Problems with the Historiography of Alchemy
    • ·       Stolzenberg, Unpropitious Tinctures
    • ·       Taylor, A Survey of Greek Alchemy