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192 items
Pretiosa margarita novella
- The Precious New Pearl
- Circa 1450 – 1480
…terminology and refutes arguments against alchemy. His discussion of the philosopher’s stone and transmutation is in keeping with other 14th-century treatises …he himself had not yet penetrated the secret, or experienced the philosopher's stone directly. Little is known about the author of this text …
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Gold
- 1870 – 1890
This print reproduces a painting exhibited by A. H. Tourrier at the Royal Academy in London in 1871. The scene shows a trio of nobles standing awed before an alchemist holding out a broken crucible in his right…
- After Tourrier, Alfred Holst
- Engraver Greatbach, G. (George)
- Subject Gold, Alchemists, Alchemy, Alchemy in art
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Alchemist at work (with book resting on skull)
- 1800 – 1899
In this small copy in the style of David Teniers II (artist unknown), an elderly, bearded alchemist closely reads an open book with an expression of absorbed contemplation. He is seated at his desk beside a skull and…
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Musaeum Hermeticum Reformatum et Amplificatum
- 1678
Bound volume contains a compilation of earlier famous alchemical texts. Select title pages and plates are digitized including the plates illustrating The Twelve Keys of Basil Valentine (Basilius Valentinus). Also…
- Author Philaletha, Basilius Valentinus, Norton, Thomas, Cremer, John, Flamel, N., Maier, Michael, 1568?-1622, Sendivogius, M., Lambspring, de Meung, Jean, Helvetius
- Engraver Merian, M.
- Publisher Apud Hermannum a Sande
- Subject Apud Hermannum a Sande, Basilius Valentinus, Norton, Thomas, Cremer, John, Flamel, N., Maier, Michael, 1568?-1622, Sendivogius, M., Lambspring, de Meung, Jean, Helvetius, Merian, M., Philaletha, Alchemy
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Trade card for Extrait de Viande de la Cie Liebig [Liebig Meat Extract Company] with Albertus Magnus
- 1903
…alchemy and chemistry. He is often attributed with discovering the philosopher's stone but he did not publish on this subject so no record exists…
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Testamentum Theorica
- 1446 – 1475
… (Ramon Llull or Raimundus Lullus; 1232-1316), the famous Catalan philosopher, theologian, and mystic. The Testamentum was likely written by an …one of the first texts to develop the idea of the elixir, or the philosophers’ stone, as the agent of the general perfection of matter – able …
- Creator Of Work Pseudo-Llull
- Subject Alchemy, Alchemy--Manuscripts, Llull, Ramon, 1232?-1316, Formulas, recipes, etc.
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Chemical Heritage, Volume 32 Number 1
- 2014 (Spring)
…rock crystal; or ... how other gems can be made from other precious stones.” As Pliny’s description suggests, valuable gems have been traded and … a whirlpool. industrial scale. A Paris jeweler did set some of the stones into brooches, and others were used as watch jewels, but these were …this disruption of the ruby market, asked sci- entists to examine the stones. Charles Friedel, a chemist and mineralogist at the Sorbonne, reported…
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Various works including Lucidarium artis transmutationis metallorum, extracts from the Sommeta and Violetta, and Epistola
- Transmutation de' mettali
- 1557
…first book, Lucidarium, is theoretical, including definitions of the philosophers’ stone or elixir, the possibility of transmutation of imperfect …
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Le Petit Rosaire
- Extract on Alchemy from the Roman de la Rose (la Table de maistre Jehan de Meun)
- Circa 1600 – 1640
This is a seventeenth-century copy of a fifteenth-century translation and re-working of the Rosarius Philosophorum, one of the most important texts in the corpus of alchemical works that circulated under the name of…
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Oral history interview with Timothy J. McDonnell
- 1996-Jun-17 – 1996-Jun-19
Timothy J. McDonnell spent his first six years in Indiana and Spain; then the family moved to San Diego, California. His father was a mechanical engineer in the Navy and then the Air Force. His mother had been a weather…
- Interviewee McDonnell, Timothy J., 1956-
- Interviewer Novak, Steven J.
- Sponsor Pew Charitable Trusts
- Subject McDonnell, Timothy J., 1956-, Biology, Cytology, Carcinogens, Heart cells, Cancer genes, Oncogenes, Molecular biology, Pathology, University of Texas M.D. Anderson Cancer Center, Prostate--Cancer
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Letters to a Painter on the Theory and Practice of Painting
- 1907
Volume inspired by correspondence between Wilhelm Ostwald (1853-1932) and various contemporary artists. According to Ostwald, "These letters appeared during the winter and spring of 1903-1904 in the scientific…
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Chemical Heritage, Volume 20 Number 2
- 2002 (Summer)
… …it Cali pts De U.0 coe POTTER and the Philosopher's Stone Departments 2. Editorial Chemical Heritage Surveyed 3 Our …Dioscorides 42 Historian at Work: Harry Potter, Nicolas Flamel, and the Philosophers’ Stone 43 Meetings and Conferences: Chemical History at HSS 2001…
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Chemists and Their Wonders: The Story of the Application of Chemistry to Various Arts and Manufactures
- Circa 1896
…animate the alchemists of the Middle Ages. One was to discover the philosopher’s stone, which should turn everything into gold ; and the other was …something like it, would result. The change was to be made by the philosopher’s stone. Therefore, I say, the search for …black on exposure to daylight—was observed by the seekers after the philosopher’s stone three hundred years ago.” “ As far back as that ?” “Oh yes…
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Everyday Miracles of Modern Chemistry : Man, a Chemical Compound who Lives in a Chemical World!
- 1925
…a principle or basic sub- stance which they called variously the Philosopher’s Stone, the Elixir of Life, ete. This, they thought, had the power …the alchemical theories because it was generally believed that the Philosopher’s Stone could purge away certain impurities which the bases metals …element while mixing substances together in an attempt to find the Philosopher’s Stone. He used the white variety, a colorless, waxy solid, very…
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Chemical Heritage, Volume 21 Number 3
- 2003 (Fall)
…series about Harry Potter. Rowling’s first book, Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone, follows Harry and his classmates at Hogwarts as they search for the philosopher’s stone prepared by Nicolas Flamel. Principe recounted what is known …science, including Robert Boyle and Isaac Newton, also pursued the philosopher’s stone. The knowledge and techniques available in the 16th and 17th…
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Chemical Heritage, Volume 23 Number 2
- 2005 (Summer)
…Privilege dis Roy. CI Found in the Othmer Library A Possible Link to the Philosopher’s Stone seemingly occult experiences that he became ill. After his …finally learned the nature of the “prime material,” from which the philosopher’s stone— with its ability to transmute base metals into gold and …ransacked by hordes searching for the alleged key to his wealth, the philosopher’s stone. It was In real life, Nicolas Flamel (1330-— 1418), a Paris…
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Distillations, Volume 1 Number 4
- 2015 (Winter)
…magazine is from the books’ first emblem, showing the inception of the philosophers’ stone (the embryo). The god is Boreas, the north wind in Greek … of the text that frames it. With this emblem we learn that “the philosophers’ stone is an act of creation made corporeal from that which is spiritual …sion of a familiar mythological theme from which such images as the Philosopher’s Stone and the Fountain of Youth derive—that through touching or…
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Chemical Heritage, Volume 19 Number 3
- 2001 (Fall)
…34:1 (Mar. 2001), 29-50. A. T. Baker; I. D. Rae. “More Than Bugs and Stones: Chemistry in the Royal Society of New South Wales. “Historical Records …matéria. Florianépolis, Brazil: Papa-Livro, 1999. Peter Marshall. The Philosopher’s Stone: A Quest for the Secrets of Alchemy. London: Macmillan, 2001 … Porto. “Michael Sendivogius on Nitre and the Preparation of the Philosopher’s Stone.” Ambix 48 (Mar. 2001), 1-16. PHILOSOPHY OF SCIENCE Jaap …
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Chemical Heritage, Volume 30 Number 3
- 2012 (Fall)
…magisterium of truth, I wish to speak of . =: the work of the great Philosophers’ Stone without lofty speech. My intention is , Se __ to be helpful …the holy Roman Church and briefly to explain the whole truth about the Stone. True to his Spiritual Franciscan views, John says that the tribulation …among them, the creation of the essential ingredients and processes. philosophers’ stone, capable of transmuting base metals into gold and silver;…
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Chemical Heritage, Volume 27 Number 3
- 2009 (Fall)
…Alchemical Works of Pseudo- Democritus: The Book On the Making of Pre- cious Stones” Evan Ragland SIDNEY M. EDELSTEIN FELLOW Indiana University, “Chymistry …discovered phosphorus in 1669, he was ac- tually trying to find the philosophers’ stone. Conducting a distillation experi- ment, he was shocked to …collections. discovery in the painting The Alchymist, in Search of the Philosopher’s Stone, Discovers Phosphorus, and prays for the successful Con- …
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Chemical Heritage, Volume 26 Number 1
- 2008 (Spring)
… a worthy, enlightened alchemist the secret of how to create the philosophers’ stone, a substance that could turn common metals into gold. The stories woven around recipes for the philosophers’ stone, both in texts and through images, for the most part have …Prelog (1906-1998)— appear in both photographs shown here. A prominent stone-block building serves as the backdrop. With them in the bottom photo…
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Distillations, Volume 3 Number 1
- 2017 (Spring)
…principles I have discovered. If you will imagine that I have found the stone of the philosophers, you will not be far from the truth. Morgan’s response …autobiography My Inventions. Tesla told Morgan he would create a philosophers’ stone from his wireless technology—an endless source of wealth. …he may have un- derestimated ozone. It has become its own kind of philosophers’ stone. Through grand promises and chemical mystique, ozone therapy…
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Chemical Heritage, Volume 19 Number 1
- 2001 (Spring)
…chemistry,” strove to uncover the secret method of preparing the philosophers’ stone, the substance whereby base metals could be trans- muted …” reputed to be the correct starting material from which to make the stone. He struggled with the process for over 40 years, but at the end of … other chrysopoeians) thought was the start- ing material of the philosophers’ stone. Indeed, Homberg claims to have pro- duced gold from it. …
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Oral history interview with George A. Olah
- 2000-Feb-03
…but it is an alchemist's story. He wants to make gold, using the philosopher's stone. The second part of Faust, which he wrote much later in his …things. His conclusion is that whereas attempts to make gold with the philosopher's stone failed, wealth was really achieved in a different way, through…
- Interviewee Olah, George A. (George Andrew), 1927-2017
- Interviewer Thackray, Arnold, 1939-, Traynham, James G.
- Subject University of Southern California, Dow Chemical Company, Chemists, Loker Hydrocarbon Research Institute, Chemists--Biography, Nobel Prize winners, Olah, George A. (George Andrew), 1927-2017, Emigration and immigration
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Wonders of electricity and the elements, being a popular account of modern electrical and magnetic discoveries, magnetism and electric machines, the electric telegraph and the electric light, and the metal bases, salt, and acids
- 1870 – 1900
…paper. Vapour of alcohol. Hair. Vapour of ether. Wool. Moist earth and stones. Dyed silk. …\These phenomena appear to have been first observed with pre- cious stones; then, in 1604, in calcined Bologna stone, and: later, in a diamond … that line of argument.. In more modern times the search for the Philosopher’s Stone and the Elixir of Life, which respectively turned everything…