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A wheelwright was an artisan who built or repaired spoked wooden wheels. [46]: 112–120 Wheelwrights established associations to control the trade, for example the Worshipful Company of Wheelwrights. [232] In the United Kingdom census there were over 26,000 wheelwrights in 1841, [233] and over 30,000 in 1871. [234]
Back in February, Zynga released the first set of Heirloom Recipes in FarmVille 2. These recipes were incredibly limited edition, giving players only a few days to create items for XP and coins.
An alchemist is a person versed in the art of alchemy. Western alchemy flourished in Greco-Roman Egypt, the Islamic world during the Middle Ages, and then in Europe from the 13th to the 18th centuries. Indian alchemists and Chinese alchemists made contributions to Eastern varieties of the art. Alchemy is still practiced today by a few, and ...
This is a list of television series produced, distributed or owned by Lionsgate Television, including subsidiaries Debmar-Mercury, Pilgrim Media Group, and Starz, and former companies Artisan Entertainment, eOne Television, Vestron Television, Trimark Pictures, Creative Differences Productions, Alliance Atlantis, Hearst Entertainment, and ...
The Mirror of Alchimy appeared at a time when there was an explosion of interest in Bacon, magic and alchemy in England. The evidence of this is seen in popular plays of the time such as Marlowe's Dr. Faustus (c. 1588), Greene's Friar Bacon and Friar Bungay (1589), and Jonson's The Alchemist (1610). [ 7 ]
Glauber's salt – sodium sulfate.Na 2 SO 4; Sal alembroth – salt composed of chlorides of ammonium and mercury.; Sal ammoniac – ammonium chloride.; Sal petrae (Med. Latin: "stone salt")/salt of petra/saltpetre/nitrate of potash – potassium nitrate, KNO 3, typically mined from covered dungheaps.
Inner Garden Alchemy Research Group: a non-profit foundation that aims to transmit the alchemical tradition. Alchemy on In Our Time at the BBC; Dictionary of the History of Ideas: Alchemy; Book of Secrets: Alchemy and the European Imagination, 1500-2000 – A digital exhibition from the Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library at Yale University
In alchemy, the Magnum Opus or Great Work is a term for the process of working with the prima materia to create the philosopher's stone. It has been used to describe personal and spiritual transmutation in the Hermetic tradition , attached to laboratory processes and chemical color changes, used as a model for the individuation process, and as ...