Alchemical Timeline

This is a provisional project to produce a timeline of key alchemical writings.

It is not yet complete and I welcome any corrections or additions.
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1490|George Ripley dies
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1500|
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1520|
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1530|
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1540|
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1550|Rosarium Philosophorum published
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1560|
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Monad
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1580|
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1590|
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included in Barnaud's Triga Chemica
1600|Giordano Bruno executed
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Theatrum Chemicum
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Naometria manuscript
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1610|
-------|Ben Jonson's play The Alchemist
-------|Flamel figures hierogliphiques (first publication). Emperor Rudolf II
dies. Ruland's Lexicon alchemiae
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-------|Confessio fraternitatis (first edition). Steffan Michelspacher Cabala,
Spiegel der Kunst unnd Natur (first edition)
-------|Chymische Hochzeit (Chemical Wedding of Christian Rosenkreutz). Andreas
Libavius dies
-------|First volume of Fludd's Utriusque Cosmi historia
-------|Theophilus Schweighardt Speculum sophicum rhodo-stauroticum. Maier's
Atalanta fugiens
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1620|
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1650|
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-------|Ashmole Theatrum Chemicum Britannicum. English translation of the Fama
and Confessio, edited by Thomas Vaughan.
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1690|Publication of the English translation of the Chemical Wedding of
Christian Rosenkreutz.
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