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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.
Alchemical symbols before Lavoisier. Alchemical symbols were used to denote chemical elements and compounds, as well as alchemical apparatus and processes, until the 18th century. Although notation was partly standardized, style and symbol varied between alchemists. Lüdy-Tenger [ 1] published an inventory of 3,695 symbols and variants, and ...
Rouge/ crocus / colcothar – ferric oxide, formed by burning green vitriol in air. Stibnite – antimony or antimony trisulfide, ore of antimony. Turpeth mineral – hydrolysed form of mercury (II) sulfate. Verdigris – Carbonate of Copper or (more recently) copper (II) acetate. The carbonate is formed by weathering copper.
In alchemy and philosophy, prima materia, materia prima or first matter (for a philosophical exposition refer to: Prime Matter ), is the ubiquitous starting material required for the alchemical magnum opus and the creation of the philosopher's stone. It is the primitive formless base of all matter similar to chaos, the quintessence or aether.
Alchemical Symbols is a Unicode block containing symbols for chemicals and substances used in ancient and medieval alchemy texts. Many of the symbols are duplicates or redundant with previous characters. [ 3] Few fonts support more than a few characters in this block as of 2021. One that does and is free for personal use is Symbola 14.0.
Outer and inner alchemy. Chinese alchemy can be divided into two methods of practice, waidan or "external alchemy" and neidan or "internal alchemy". Doctrine can be accessed to describe these methods in greater detail; the majority of Chinese alchemical sources can be found in the Daozang, the "Taoist Canon".
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 ...
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.