Alchemy

Seven metals, ringed with four magical inscriptions: what other secrets does the ‘Alchemical Hand Bell’ hold?
Richard Bean, Corinna Gannon
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Deciphering the *Hermeticae Philosophiae Medulla*: Textual Cultures of Alchemical Secrecy
This article presents the decryption, historical analysis, and alchemical interpretation of an alchemical cipher found in a shared …
Megan Piorko, Sarah Lang, Richard Bean
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Digital Scholarly Editions of Alchemical Texts as Tools for Interpretation
Digital Scholarly Editions commonly provide annotations and visualization tools for Named Entities, dates or basic quantitative text …
Sarah A. Lang
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Situating ciphers among alchemical techniques of secrecy
This paper offers a contextual framework for the historical analysis of alchemical ciphers. It argues that they differ from other …
Sarah A. Lang
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A Machine Reasoning Algorithm for the Digital Analysis of Alchemical Language and its Decknamen
Alchemical language has been addressed in several lexicographical studies, historically and recently. This paper discusses the current …
Sarah A. Lang
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Matteo Soranzo. Giovanni Aurelio Augurello (1441–1524) and Renaissance Alchemy: A Critical Edition of “Chrysopoeia” and Other Alchemical Poems, with an Introduction, English Translation and Commentary.
Sarah A. Lang
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Solving an alchemical cipher in a shared notebook of John and Arthur Dee
This paper builds on a work in progress by Lang and Piorko published in HistoCrypt 2021, which presented a seventeenthcentury …
Richard Bean, Sarah Lang, Megan Piorko
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Solving an alchemical cipher in a shared notebook of John and Arthur Dee
This paper builds on a work in progress by Lang and Piorko published in HistoCrypt 2021, which presented a seventeenthcentury …
Richard Bean, Sarah Lang, Megan Piorko
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Vom `Wissen in Buchform` zum formalen Wissensmodell. Digitale Aufbereitung wissenschaftshistorischer Drucke am Beispiel der Alchemica Michael Maiers
Sarah A. Lang
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Deciphering the Philosophers' Stone: how we cracked a 400-year-old alchemical cipher
Richard Bean, Megan Piorko
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