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This was the first alchemical compendium, and was printed in Nuremberg in 1541. [1] The volume also included five works attributed to Geber, the works of Calid and Ortolanus, and three other texts. Portions of De alchimia were translated into French in 1557 as Le miroir d'alquimie. [2] The French volume was published in four parts.
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.
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[1] (Michael Maier's Atalanta Fugiens. 1617.) The cubes represent prima materia. 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.
Eric John Holmyard (11 July 1891 – 13 October 1959) was an English science teacher at Clifton College, [1] and historian of science and technology. Scholar [ edit ]
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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 first part of the book is a discussion of general alchemical principles and advice about the philosopher's stone.