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Sunday, November 23, 2014
A visit to the ‘Mundus tenebrosus’ with Samuel Pordage
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Back again to Samuel Pordage’s Behmenist poem of 1661 , Mundorum explicatio , his explanation of the worlds of Wrath and Love. Much ...
Thursday, November 12, 2009
How to Vanish a Glass of Beer: Hocus Pocus, 1634
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My colleague and friend Professor Adam Roberts, who writes novels and updates his blog...
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Saturday, January 05, 2008
An alchemical coin: the rose noble of Edward III
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I am to lecture, for the first time in some years, on Ben Jonson. Starting to think about The Alchemist made me think of one of the coins ...
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Tuesday, August 07, 2007
He wanted to believe: Elias Ashmole edits poems of alchemy
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When the virtuoso Elias Ashmole got married for the second time, to the older but wealthier Lady Mainwaring, it was so as to “be enabled to ...
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