Being a brief account of the alchemistic doctrines, and their relations, to mysticism on the one hand, and to recent discoveries in the physical science on the other hand; together with some particulars regarding the lives and teachings of the most noted alchemists. The meaning of alchemy; The theory of physical alchemy; The alchemists before and after Paracelsus; The outcome of alchemy; The age of modern chemistry; Modern alchemy.
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1. Alchemy is generally understood to have been that art whose end was the transmutation of the so-called base metals into gold by means of an ill-defined something called the Philosopher's Stone; but even from a purely physical standpoint, this is a somewhat superficial view. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
alchemistic work, radium emanation, allotropic modifications, radium salts, definite weight, uranium salts Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Sir William Ramsay, Basil Valentine, Roger Bacon, Jacob Boehme, Periodic Table, The New Chemical Light, Thomas Vaughan, John Dee, Stone of the Philosophers, Edward Kelley, The Chemical News, Dalton's Atomic Theory, Egyptian Masonry, Hermetic Art, Robert Boyle, Rosicrucian Society, The Works of Geber, Thomas Charnock, Emperor Rudolph, Journal of the Chemical Society, The New Pearl of Great Price, Thomas Norton New!
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1. Alchemy is generally understood to have been that art whose end was the transmutation of the so-called base metals into gold by means of an ill-defined something called the Philosopher's Stone; but even from a purely physical standpoint, this is a somewhat superficial view. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
alchemistic work, radium emanation, allotropic modifications, radium salts, definite weight, uranium salts Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Sir William Ramsay, Basil Valentine, Roger Bacon, Jacob Boehme, Periodic Table, The New Chemical Light, Thomas Vaughan, John Dee, Stone of the Philosophers, Edward Kelley, The Chemical News, Dalton's Atomic Theory, Egyptian Masonry, Hermetic Art, Robert Boyle, Rosicrucian Society, The Works of Geber, Thomas Charnock, Emperor Rudolph, Journal of the Chemical Society, The New Pearl of Great Price, Thomas Norton New!
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- The Ether of Space by Oliver Joseph Lodge on page 115, and page 116
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