Alchemy and Metaphysics in Shakespeare's Time: Part I Julia Cleave - Hosted by Gerit Quealy

[@alainaaugust1932]

Brilliant, thank you. Just finished a study of John Dee and his Monas and said to myself “Now I have to study alchemy” and this comes up. Thanks.

[@Northcountry1926]

Hope this Round Table Grows 💯‼️

[@ExxylcrothEagle]

Very enjoyable. Great reading flow.

[@Short-Cipher]

Quite enjoyable. Thanks.

[@OddawallWood]

So on the road to utopia you study Shakespeare's world of human depravity?

[@tomgoff6867]

I wonder if Ben Jonson's tribute to Shakespeare in the First Folio is partly alchemical.

[@Jeffhowardmeade]

He mentions brass in reference to the Droeshout engraving which was made in brass. Back then what was called "brass" was really an alloy of copper and tin (bronze) rather than the copper and zinc used today. Copper corresponds to Venus, who was the daughter of Jupiter, who corresponds to tin. Sorry. Not seeing any symbolism there.

[@Jeffhowardmeade]

@UCuQp8pkFJdaEuO4NBIf2v0Q Dude, I'm a letterpress printer. I've printed intaglio, lithograph, silk screen, you name it. I have a Linotype in my garage. You're not telling me anything I don't already know. But here's something you obviously don't know: in Early Modern English, "brass" was any copper alloy, including bronze. Nice try, but history bites you on the ass again.

[@VallaMusic]

alchemy was not on the fringe of society - that speaks volumes to the much more expanded consciousness of those times when compared to almost mindless shallow awareness of our own day

[@jesuslovesyou1497]

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[@donnyscallz]

is this somehow a recipe for gold maybe?