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Alchemy (from Arabic: al-kīmiyā; from Ancient Greek: χυμεία, khumeía) [1] is an ancient branch of natural philosophy, a philosophical and protoscientific tradition that was historically practised in China, India, the Muslim world, and Europe. [2] In its Western form, alchemy is first attested in a number of pseudepigraphical texts ...
The Wayback Machine is a digital archive of the World Wide Web founded by the Internet Archive, an American nonprofit organization based in San Francisco, California. Created in 1996 and launched to the public in 2001, it allows the user to go "back in time" to see how websites looked in the past. Its founders, Brewster Kahle and Bruce Gilliat ...
Alkahest. Image of Alchimia, the embodiment of alchemy. Woodcut published by Leonhard Thurneysser in 1574. Thurneysser was a student of Paracelsus. In Renaissance alchemy, alkahest was the theorized "universal solvent ". [ nb 1] It was supposed to be capable of dissolving any composite substance, including gold (then not considered an element ...
Make sure your toddler knows not to grab, pull, bite, or lick the pup. If your child is eating and the dog wants to be around, you need to be supervising. Try to discourage your dog from begging ...
Septenary of the seven metals and Classical planets in Western alchemy. Lead • tin • copper • iron • mercury • silver • gold. Saturn • Jupiter • Venus • Mars • Mercury • Moon • Sun. Tria Prima (three primes) Salt • mercury • sulfur. Body • soul • spirit. Unity of opposites or coincidentia oppositorum. Hieros Gamos.
Paul Zane Pilzer (born January 17, 1954) is an American economist, New York Times best-selling author, [1] and social entrepreneur.He has written 13 books, the founder of six companies, and has been profiled in more than 100 publications including on the front page of The Wall Street Journal.
Philosopher's stone. The Alchymist, in Search of the Philosopher's Stone by Joseph Wright of Derby, 1771. The philosopher's stone[ a] is a mythic alchemical substance capable of turning base metals such as mercury into gold or silver [ b]; it was also known as "the tincture" and "the powder". Alchemists additionally believed that it could be ...
The most well-known commentary is that of Hortulanus, an alchemist about whom very little is known, in the first half of the 14th century: I, Hortulanus, that is to say, gardener... I have wanted to write a clear explanation and certain explanation of the words of Hermes, father of philosophers, although they are obscure, and to sincerely ...