Johns Hopkins Magazine -- February 1999
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By Dale Keiger

Alchemy web sites have proliferated. Many have little to do with history or science; their creators have more interest in the occult. But you can find some of the more famous alchemical texts on line, and quite a lot of imagery.

The biggest repository is titled, aptly, The Alchemy Web Site and Virtual Library ( www.levity.com/alchemy/index.html). It claims "over 1300 sections...providing tens of thousands of pages of text, over 1700 images, over 200 complete alchemical texts," and I certainly never got all the way to the botom of it.

The Alchemy Web Bookshop ( dialspace.dial.pipex.com/alchemy/index.html) sells books, prints, and CD-ROMs on-line. One of their titles is The Hermaphrodite Child of Sun and Moon, which I'd like a peek at sometime.

If you're curious about part of Robert Boyle's legacy, you can visit the website of the Royal Society (www.royalsoc.ac.uk), which he helped found-the society, not the website. A brief exploration failed to turn up any mention of alchemy.

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