"Concerning the Hermetic Art" is quite a good academic text exploring some primary sources from more than a century prior to its writing, and detailing both some chemical and philosophical components of alchemy.
Complete with multiple quotes from multiple authors of alchemy to explain the content, it is one of the more thorough investigations of the topic.. "Concerning the Hermetic Art" is quite a good academic text exploring some primary sources from more than a century prior to its writing, and detailing both some chemical and philosophical components of alchemy