Research Guides: Research Guide: Magic &amp; Science: Portals and Open Access Web Resources

Portals, Digitisation Projects and Open access web resources

Alchemy and Chemistry

Alchemy Library
Adam McLean's alchemy library
Society for the History of Alchemy and Chemistry
Jacob Boehme Resources
Portal of resources on the work of Jacob Boehme, including translations of primary texts.

Sorcery, Freemasonry, Rosicrucianism

Witches in Early Modern England
"The Witches in Early Modern England project, led by Kirsten C. Uszkalo, designs and deploys strategically intersecting, innovative, and experimental digital tools to allow for robust searching and pattern finding within the corpus of texts relating to early modern witchcraft. Beyond that, its open-ended platform encourages further expansion by users, to push the limits of how digital technologies can enhance and inspire the academic interrogation of existing corpora."
Salem Witch Trials Documentary Archive and Transcription
Heinrich Bullinger, Wider die schwarze Kunst [Against Black Magic], 1571. Online edition prepared by Rainer Henrich, of the Institut für schweizerische Reformationsgeschichte, Zurich

Divination and Prophecy

Museo Galileo Digital Collections
"The Museo Galileo library is presently composed of fourteen thematic digital collections.

The digital collections are a result of a profitable collaboration with specialized scholars representing different fields related to the history of science and technology. "

Astrology and Astronomy

Botany and Zoology

Kircher and Kircheriana
This site is home to the many and varied Athanasius Kircher collections and research activities at Stanford University, including the Athanasius Kircher correspondence project.
Natural History Museum Library and Archive
Il teatro della natura di Ulisse Aldrovandi

History of medicine

Learning about Alchemy with Larry Principe
Video. Lawrence Principe, professor of organic chemistry and the history of science at Johns Hopkins University, studies late-medieval and early-modern alchemy to answer questions about how modern-day chemistry developed.
Filmed and edited by Kirk Zamieroski for C&EN
Hildegard of Bingen: Authorship and Stylometry
A documentary based on the scientific article: Kestemont, M.; Moens, S. & Deploige, J., 'Collaborative Authorship in the Twelfth Century. A Stylometric Study of Hildegard of Bingen and Guibert of Gembloux'.

Early Modern Thought Online
"Early Modern Thought Online" (EMTO) is a database offering access to about 13.500 digitized source texts from early modern philosophy and related disciplines like history of science and history of theology provided by libraries in Europe and elsewhere.