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Un nuovo catalogo dei manoscritti alchemici greci delle biblioteche italiane

Author(s): Giorgia Pausillo
Published in: 2022, Page(s) 1-415
Publisher: PhD Thesis - History of Science and Technology

Nature in the books of seven metals – Ǧābirian corpus in dialogue with ancient Greek philosophy and Byzantine alchemy

Author(s): Masayo Watanabe
Published in: 2023, Page(s) 1-362
Publisher: PhD Thesis - History of Science and Technology

Plutarch's chemistry of stones and metals: conceptions and explanations. With an appendix on the TheSu XML annotation scheme

Author(s): Daniele Morrone
Published in: 2022, Page(s) 1-292
Publisher: PhD Dissertation - History of Science and Technology

L'opera alchemica del filosofo Cristiano. Edizione, traduzione e note di commento.

Author(s): Marco Bellini
Published in: 2023, Page(s) 1-217
Publisher: PhD Thesis - History of Science and Technology

Medicine in early Graeco-Egyptian alchemical texts (1st-3rd century AD)

Author(s): Matteo Martelli
Published in: Technai. An International Journal for Ancient Science and Technology, Issue 14, 2023, Page(s) 9-27, ISSN 2037-7967
Publisher: Serra Editore
DOI: 10.19272/202310501001

Ancient handbooks and Graeco-Egyptian collections of alchemical recipes

Author(s): Matteo Martelli
Published in: BJHS - Themes, Issue 5, 2020, Page(s) 39-55, ISSN 2058-850X
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
DOI: 10.1017/bjt.2020.4

"Transmuting tinctures: water of sulphur, quicklime, and ""washes"" in Graeco-Egyptian alchemy"

Author(s): Matteo Martelli
Published in: Technai. An International Journal for Ancient Science and Technology, Issue 13, 2022, Page(s) 115-142, ISSN 2037-7967
Publisher: Serra Editore
DOI: 10.19272/202210501006

A Syriac epitome of Galens' On simple drugs, books 9-11 : text and translation

Author(s): Matteo Martelli
Published in: Galenos, Issue 14, 2020, Page(s) 131-158, ISSN 1974-4870
Publisher: Fabrizio Serra Editore
DOI: 10.19272/202020501007

Exempla Trahunt. Specimens of Alchemical and Scientific Manuscripts (Arabic & Syriac). Bologna, 8-9 July 2019

Author(s): Lucia Raggetti
Published in: COMSt Bulletin, Issue 5/2, 2019, Page(s) 162-163, ISSN 2410-0951
Publisher: COMSt
DOI: 10.25592/uhhfdm.749

Colour and Cultural Maintenance in Ancient Babylonia: Contextualizing Wool Dye Recipe BM 62788 + BM 82978

Author(s): Eduardo Escobar
Published in: Technai. An International Journal for Ancient Science and Technology, Issue 13, 2022, Page(s) 67-84, ISSN 2037-7967
Publisher: Serra Editore
DOI: 10.19272/202210501004

Alchemy in the Cairo Genizah: the Nachlass of an untidy Jewish alchemist

Author(s): Gabriele Ferrario
Published in: Asiatische Studien - Études asiatiques, Issue 75, 2021, Page(s) 513-544, ISSN 0004-4717
Publisher: De Gruyter
DOI: 10.1515/asia-2021-0007

PSELLOS’ PETRIFIED ROOT: TRANSMUTATIONS AND NATURAL WONDERS FROM CLASSICAL ANTIQUITY TO BYZANTINE TIMES

Author(s): Marco Bellini
Published in: Physis. Rivista Internazionale di Storia della Scienza, Issue 55.1-2, 2020, Page(s) 223-241, ISSN 0031-9414
Publisher: Olschki

Crafting Purity in Assyro-Babylonian Procedures. Time, Space, and the Material World

Author(s): Noemi Borrelli; Eduardo Escobar
Published in: ARYS. Antigüedad: Religiones y Sociedades, Issue 20, 2022, Page(s) 27-76, ISSN 1575-166X
Publisher: Dykinson S.L.
DOI: 10.20318/arys.2022.6857

Alchemical Waters Run Deep: The Four Waters and Their Use in The Treasure of Alexander

Author(s): Lucia Raggetti
Published in: Nuncius. Journal of the Material and Visual History of Science, Issue 37, 2022, Page(s) 675-692, ISSN 0394-7394
Publisher: Brill
DOI: 10.1163/18253911-bja10032

Alchemical lexica in Syriac: planetary signs, code names and medicines

Author(s): Matteo Martelli
Published in: Asiatische Studien - Études asiatiques, Issue 75, 2021, Page(s) 485-512, ISSN 0004-4717
Publisher: De Gruyter
DOI: 10.1515/asia-2020-0042

Quenching Greedy Souls in Metal Lakes. A Metallurgic Image in Thespesius’s Vision of the Afterlife (Plutarch, De sera num. 30, 567c-d)

Author(s): Daniele Morrone
Published in: ARYS. Antigüedad: Religiones y Sociedades, Issue 20, 2022, Page(s) 171-226, ISSN 1575-166X
Publisher: Dykinson S.L.
DOI: 10.20318/arys.2022.6856

Translating Ancient Alchemy: Fragments of Graeco-Egyptian Alchemy in Arabic Compendia

Author(s): Matteo Martelli
Published in: Ambix, Issue 64/4, 2017, Page(s) 326-342, ISSN 0002-6980
Publisher: Maney Publishing
DOI: 10.1080/00026980.2017.1412137

Apollonius of Tyana’s Great Book of Talismans

Author(s): Lucia Raggetti
Published in: Nuncius, Issue 34/1, 2019, Page(s) 155-182, ISSN 0394-7394
Publisher: Brill
DOI: 10.1163/18253911-03401006

Inks as Instruments of Writing

Author(s): Lucia Raggetti
Published in: Journal of Islamic Manuscripts, Issue 10/2, 2019, Page(s) 201-239, ISSN 1878-4631
Publisher: Brill
DOI: 10.1163/1878464X-01002003

GOODFEATHERS: AMAZING PIGEONS IN ARABIC ANIMAL LORE

Author(s): Lucia Raggetti
Published in: Quaderni di studi arabi, Issue 14, 2019, Page(s) 291-310, ISSN 1121-2306
Publisher: Istituto per l'Oriente

Los 'Hermeneumata' de 'PGM/PDM XII' (= 'GEMF' 15): la 'Dreckapotheke' mágica a examen

Author(s): Miriam Blanco Cesteros
Published in: Cuadernos de Filología Clásica. Estudios griegos e indoeuropeos, Issue 30, 2020, Page(s) 149-174, ISSN 1131-9070
Publisher: Editorial Complutense
DOI: 10.5209/cfcg.68481

Ὀδοντίζω

Author(s): Miriam Blanco Cesteros
Published in: Nuncius, Issue 35/1, 2020, Page(s) 1-19, ISSN 0394-7394
Publisher: Brill
DOI: 10.1163/18253911-03501011

Ǧābir b. Ḥayyān as a Touchstone of Arabic Sciences in the 8th Century

Author(s): Masayo Watanabe
Published in: HISTORIA SCIENTIARUM, Issue 29/2, 2020, Page(s) 214-228, ISSN 0285-4821
Publisher: Nihon Kagakushi Gakkai/History of Science Society of Japan

Nuove considerazioni sui manoscritti alchemici di Domenico Pizzimenti

Author(s): Giorgia Pausillo
Published in: Scripta : an international journal of codicology and palaeography, Issue 13, 2020, Page(s) 141-159, ISSN 2035-2751
Publisher: Fabrizio Serra Editore
DOI: 10.19272/202008901008

Exploring the Ancient Chemistry of Mercury

Author(s): Marianna Marchini; Massimo Gandolfi; Lucia Maini; Lucia Raggetti; Matteo Martelli
Published in: PNAS. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, Issue 119, 2022, Page(s) 1-19, ISSN 1091-6490
Publisher: National Academy of Sciences
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.2123171119

Metals as Living Bodies. Founts of Mercury, Amalgams, and Chrysocolla

Author(s): Vincenzo Carlotta; Matteo Martelli
Published in: Ambix, Issue 70, 2023, Page(s) 7-30, ISSN 1745-8234
Publisher: Taylor&Francis
DOI: 10.1080/00026980.2023.2173833

On (De)Constructing an Authoritative Narrative. The Case of The Letter of Isis

Author(s): Miriam Blanco Cesteros
Published in: ARYS. Antigüedad: Religiones y Sociedades, Issue 20, 2022, Page(s) 227-270, ISSN 1575-166X
Publisher: Dykinson S.L.
DOI: 10.20318/arys.2022.6794

Introducing Greek Alchemy to Christianity.Inclusion and Exclusion of Religious Elements in Stephanus’s Lessons

Author(s): Vincenzo Carlotta
Published in: ARYS. Antigüedad: Religiones y Sociedades, Issue 20, 2022, Page(s) 323-350, ISSN 1575-166X
Publisher: Dykinson S.L.
DOI: 10.20318/arys.2022.6796

CHEMICAL ARTS AND RELIGION IN ANTIQUITY. AN INTRODUCTION

Author(s): Noemi Borrelli; Matteo Martelli
Published in: ARYS. Antigüedad: Religiones y Sociedades, Issue 20, 2022, Page(s) 15-25, ISSN 1575-166X
Publisher: Dykinson S.L.
DOI: 10.20318/arys.2022.7262

La mirabile fusione fredda del piombo da Teofrasto a Plutarco. Un riesame critico della questione

Author(s): Daniele Morrone
Published in: Physis. Rivista Internazionale di Storia della Scienza, Issue 55.1-2, 2020, Page(s) 243-260, ISSN 0031-9414
Publisher: Olschki

Maria's Practica in Early Modern Alchemy

Author(s): Matteo Martelli
Published in: Gendered Touch. Women, Men, and Knowledge-making in Early Modern Europe, 2022, Page(s) 40-65, ISBN 9789004512603
Publisher: Brill
DOI: 10.1163/9789004512610_004

Translating Alchemical Practice into Symbols. Two Cases from Codex Marcianus graecus 299

Author(s): Vincenzo Carlotta
Published in: Premodern Experience of the Natural World in Translation, 2022, Page(s) 217-229, ISBN 9781003258704
Publisher: Routledge
DOI: 10.4324/9781003258704-19

Maria the Alchemist and her Famous Heated Bath in the Arabo-Islamic Tradition

Author(s): Lucia Raggetti
Published in: Gendered Touch. Women, Men, and Knowledge-making in Early Modern Europe, 2022, Page(s) 21-39, ISBN 9789004512610
Publisher: Brill
DOI: 10.1163/9789004512610_003

Written in Blood? Decoding Some Red Inks of the Greek Magical Papyri

Author(s): Miriam Blanco Cesteros
Published in: Traces of Inks. Experiences of Philology and Replication (Nuncius Series), Issue 7, 2021, Page(s) 33-56
Publisher: Brill
DOI: 10.1163/9789004444805_004

‘Alchemical’ Inks in the Syriac Tradition

Author(s): Matteo Martelli
Published in: Traces of Inks. Experience of philology and replication (Nuncius Series), Issue 7, 2021, Page(s) 79-104, ISBN 9789004444805
Publisher: Brill
DOI: 10.1163/9789004444805_007

Perfume Making and High Culture in Early Bronze Age Babylonia

Author(s): Noemi Borrelli
Published in: Ana šulmāni. Ancient Near Eastern Studies in Honour of Simonetta Graziani, 2022, Page(s) 91-125, ISSN 1824-6109
Publisher: UniOr Press
DOI: 10.6093/978-88-6719-247-2

Ordinary Inks and Incredible Tricks in al-ʿIrāqī’s ʿUyūn al-ḥaqāʾiq

Author(s): Lucia Raggetti
Published in: Traces of Ink. Experiences of Philology and Replication (Nuncius Series), Issue 7, 2021, Page(s) 154-191
Publisher: Brill
DOI: 10.1163/9789004444805_010

Anonymous: Dialogue of the Philosophers and Cleopatra (c. 600–700 CE)

Author(s): Vincenzo Carlotta
Published in: Women in the History of Science: A Sourcebook, 2023, Page(s) 35-39, ISBN 978-1-80008-415-5
Publisher: UCL Press
DOI: 10.2307/j.ctv2w61bc7.12

Galen in the Late Antique, Byzantine, and Syro-Arabic Alchemical Traditions

Author(s): Matteo Martelli
Published in: Brill’s Companion to the Reception of Galen, 2019, Page(s) 577-593, ISBN 9789-004302211
Publisher: Brill
DOI: 10.1163/9789004394353_031

Byzantine Alchemy in Two Recently Discovered Manuscripts in Saint Stephen’s (Meteora) and Olympiotissa (Elassona) Monasteries

Author(s): Matteo Martelli
Published in: Greek Alchemy from Late Antiquity to Early Modernity, Issue 104, 2018, Page(s) 99-118, ISBN 978-2-503-58191-0
Publisher: Brepols Publishers
DOI: 10.1484/m.dda-eb.5.116314

El encanto de la química. Las recetas alquímicas de PGM XII y la ‘Alquimia de Simposio'

Author(s): Miriam Blanco Cesteros
Published in: Ablanathanalba. Magia, cultura y sociedad en el Mundo Antiguo, 2020, Page(s) 115-134, ISBN 978-84-1324-639-0
Publisher: Clásicos Dykinson

Tappūtī-bēlat-ekalle (fl. 1200 BCE): A cuneiform tablet on Middle Assyrian perfumery (c. 1200 BCE)

Author(s): Eduardo Escobar
Published in: Women in the History of Science: A Sourcebook, 2023, Page(s) 15-22, ISBN 978-1-80008-415-5
Publisher: UCL Press
DOI: 10.2307/j.ctv2w61bc7.10

Ippocrate nella tradizione alchemica siriaca e araba

Author(s): Matteo Martelli
Published in: Ippocrate e gli altri [online], 2021, Page(s) 419-436, ISBN 9782728315062
Publisher: École française de Rome
DOI: 10.4000/books.efr.23650

Un turbante nel coniglio. Intrattenimento e inganno nella scienza arabo-islamica

Author(s): Lucia Raggetti
Published in: Storie della scienza, 2021, Page(s) 1-288, ISBN 9788893573160
Publisher: Editrice Bibliografica

Ancient science and technology of colour. Pigments, dyes, drugs and their experience in Antiquity. Part. 1

Author(s): Matteo Martelli, editor; Maria Michela Sassi, editor
Published in: Technai. An International Journal for Ancient Science and Technology (Thematic issue), Issue 13, 2022, Page(s) 33-175, ISSN 2037-7967
Publisher: Serra Editore

A Cultural History of Chemistry in Antiquity

Author(s): Marco Beretta (ed.) Sydney Aufrère Cale Johnson Matteo Martelli
Published in: A Cultural History of Chemistry, Issue 1, 2022, Page(s) 313, ISBN 9781474294539
Publisher: Bloomsbury
DOI: 10.5040/9781474203746

Ancient science and technology of colour. Pigments, dyes, drugs and their experience in Antiquity. Part. 2

Author(s): Matteo Martelli, Editor; Maria Michela Sassi, Editor
Published in: Techani. An International Journal for Ancient Science and Technology (Thematic issue), Issue 14, 2023, Page(s) 31-156, ISSN 2037-7967
Publisher: Serra Editore

L'alchimista antico. Dall'Egitto greco-romano a Bisanzio

Author(s): Matteo Martelli
Published in: Storia della scienza e del pensiero scientifico, 2019, Page(s) 184, ISBN 9788-893572620
Publisher: Editrice bibliografica

Chemical Arts and Religion in Antiquity

Author(s): Noemi Borrelli, Editor; Matteo Martelli, Editor
Published in: ARYS. Antigüedad: Religiones y Sociedades (Thematic issue), Issue 20, 2022, Page(s) 1-350, ISSN 1575-166X
Publisher: Dykinson S.L.

Traces of Ink. Experiences of Philology and Replication

Author(s): Lucia Raggetti (editor)
Published in: Nuncius Series, Issue 7, 2021, Page(s) 202, ISBN 9789004444805
Publisher: Brill
DOI: 10.1163/9789004444805

Quicksilver and Quick-thinking: Insight into the Alchemy of MercuryA new interdisciplinary research to discover the chemical reality of ancient alchemical recipes

Author(s): Lucia Maini; Marianna Marchini; Massimo Gandolfi; Lucia Raggetti; Matteo Martelli
Published in: ChemRxiv, 2021
Publisher: Cambridge Open Engage
DOI: 10.26434/chemrxiv-2021-4qn68-v2

How to Correct Plato, Alchemically?

Author(s): Bojidar Dimitrov
Published in: The Recipes Project, Issue Monthy, 2019
Publisher: Hypotheses - Open Edition

Alchemical Recipes in the AlchemEast Project

Author(s): Matteo Martelli
Published in: The Recipes Project, Issue Monthy, 2019
Publisher: Hypotheses - Open Editions

Selecting and Organizing Recipes in Late Antique and Early Byzantine Compendia of Medicine and Alchemy

Author(s): Matteo Martelli
Published in: The Recipes Project, Issue Montly, 2018
Publisher: Hypotheses - Open Edition

Argumentation Mapping for the History of Philosophical and Scientific Ideas: The TheSu Annotation Scheme and Its Application to Plutarch’s Aquane an ignis

Author(s): Daniele Morrone
Published in: Atti del IX Convegno Annuale AIUCD. La svolta inevitabile: sfide e prospettive per l’Informatica Umanistica, 2020, Page(s) 163-170
Publisher: Umanistica Digitale

Alchemy in the Making: From ancient Babylonia via Graeco-Roman Egypt into the Byzantine, Syriac and Arabic traditions (1500 BCE - 1000 AD)

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