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The book's main theme is about finding one's destiny, although according to The New York Times, The Alchemist is "more self-help than literature". [4] The advice given to Santiago that "when you really want something to happen, the whole universe will conspire so that your wish comes true" is the core of the novel's thinking. [5]
The Liber de compositione alchemiae ("Book on the Composition of Alchemy"), also known as the Testamentum Morieni ("Testament of Morienus"), the Morienus, or by its Arabic title Masāʾil Khālid li-Maryānus al-rāhib ("Khalid's Questions to the Monk Maryanos"), is a work on alchemy falsely attributed to the Umayyad prince Khalid ibn Yazid (c. 668 – c. 704). [1]
Sophie and Josh Newman are 15-year-old twins who are working at their summer jobs in The Coffee Cup in San Francisco (Sophie works at The Coffee Cup, Josh works at the bookstore on the other side of the street) when a mysterious man, John Dee, comes into the bookstore for a book, the Codex – or Book of Abraham the Mage.
"An illuminated page from a book on alchemical processes and receipts", ca. 15th century The introduction of alchemy to Latin Europe may be dated to 11 February 1144, with the completion of Robert of Chester 's translation of the Liber de compositione alchemiae ("Book on the Composition of Alchemy") from an Arabic work attributed to Khalid ibn ...
The details of Gerhard Dorn's early life, along with those of many other 16th century personalities, are lost to history. It is known that he was born about 1530 in Mechelen, which is part of modern-day Belgium's Antwerp Province.
The Ben Hope novels have been described as "James Bond meets Jason Bourne, with a historical twist".[7] [8] The series starts with the lead character (who has left the SAS to become a freelance "consultant" in searching and rescuing children who are kidnap victims) being recruited to try to find Fulcanelli, or at the very least his manuscript, in order to try to save the life of a child.
Alchemist is a novel about the daughter of a world-leading professor in genetics, and involves a pharmaceutical company being run for sinister purposes. [ 1 ] Reception
Duncan was a prolific writer and penned over fifty books. [ 8 ] [ 9 ] His sixth book, West of January , won the 1990 Aurora award , an award he would win again in 2007 for Children of Chaos . [ 10 ] [ 11 ] He was a member of SF Canada [ 12 ] and in 2015 he was inducted into the Canadian Science Fiction and Fantasy Hall of Fame.