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Join Princeton University Library for an author talk featuring Jennifer Rampling, author of "The Experimental Fire: Inventing English Alchemy, 1300-1700" and curator of the "Through a Glass Darkly: Alchemy and the Ripley Scrolls 1400-1700" exhibition in the Milberg Gallery at Firestone Library. In medieval and early modern Europe, the practice of alchemy promised extraordinary physical transformations. Who would not be amazed to see base metals turned into silver and gold, ha...

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Alchemy Under the Hood MAY 12, 2021 WHEN THE 16TH-CENTURY alchemist Robert Greene of Welby added books to his collection, he had some signature ways of making them his own. His name appears everywhere in them: inscribed as R. Green and Robertus green de welbe, or even half-translated into Greek as ροβερτωσ χλωρωσ. He sometimes scraped away a former owner’s signature and superimposed his own in its place. He checked his manuscripts against more authoritative copies: where a few...