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'A Short Summary Tract: Of the Great Stone of the Ancients') is a widely reproduced alchemical book attributed to Basil Valentine. It was first published in 1599 by Johann Thölde who is likely the book's true author. [1] It is presented as a sequence of alchemical operations encoded allegorically in words, to which images have been added.
The Twelve Keys of Basil Valentine is a widely reproduced alchemical book attributed to Valentine, first published in 1599 by Johann Thölde. [2] It contains two parts, the second of which houses the twelve keys. These were accompanied by woodcut engravings from later publications in the early seventeenth century.
Dutch White – a pigment, formed from one part of white lead to three of barium sulfate. BaSO 4; Flowers of antimony – antimony trioxide, formed by roasting stibnite at high temperature and condensing the white fumes that form. Sb 2 O 3; Fool's gold – a mineral, iron disulfide or pyrite; can form oil of vitriol on contact with water and air.
Combinations can be both physical (such as combining Water and Lava to obtain Steam and Stone) and metaphorical (such as combining Water and Fire to obtain Alcohol). The game begins with only the four classical elements (fire, water, air and earth), and centers on the discovery of 249 elements across 26 categories. Should the player be stuck, a ...
An extract and symbol key from Kenelm Digby's A Choice Collection of Rare Secrets, 1682. The alchemical magnum opus was sometimes expressed as a series of chemical operations. In cases where these numbered twelve, each could be assigned one of the Zodiac signs as a form of cryptography.
Alchemy (from the Arabic word al-kīmīā, الكیمیاء) is an ancient branch of natural philosophy, a philosophical and protoscientific tradition that was historically practised in China, India, the Muslim world, and Europe. [1]
Stow-Munroe Falls Public Library: Rebecca Searle, author of “One Italian Summer” and “The Dinner List,” joins the Online Author Talk Series from 8 to 9 p.m. Wednesday. Register at smfpl ...
Title page of the 1597 edition of The Mirror of Alchimy.. The Mirror of Alchimy is a short alchemical manual, known in Latin as Speculum Alchemiae.Translated in 1597, it was only the second alchemical text printed in the English language.