Appel à contribution : « Alchemy between Science and Magic », Arcana Naturae, n° 7, date limite le 30 mai 2025
Although characterised by a definite scientific appetite, a marked experimental approach and direct technical applications (goldsmithing, glassmaking, etc.), alchemy was mostly permeated by a rhetoric of secrecy that was partly fatal to it (Greiner, 1998). What’s more, the profile of some of its historical protagonists already pointed to an interpenetration between alchemy and magic: the scribe of the Greek alchemical papyri in Leiden and Stockholm, for example, also copied the first pages of the Greek...



