The Alchemical Transformations of the Mutus Liber (1677)(publicdomainreview.org)
8 points by benbreen | 0 comments
A Public Domain Review collection post presenting the engraved plates of the Mutus Liber, a wordless 1677 alchemical book.
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Using LLMs to trace alchemical knowledge and decode 17th century letters(resobscura.substack.com)
160 points by benbreen | 38 comments
A Res Obscura Substack post by historian Benjamin Breen arguing AI labs should fund historical research, with examples of using frontier LLMs to trace alchemy and decode 17th-century letters.