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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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Pretiosa margarita novella
- The Precious New Pearl
- Circa 1450 – 1480
…arguments against alchemy. His discussion of the philosopher’s stone and transmutation is in keeping with other 14th-century treatises and emphasizes …penetrated the secret, or experienced the philosopher's stone directly. Little is known about the author of this text beyond his name, Petrus…
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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 Philalethes, Eirenaeus, Basilius Valentinus, Norton, Thomas, Cremer, John, active 14th century, Flamel, Nicolas, -1418, Maier, Michael, 1568?-1622, Sędziwój, Michał, approximately 1556-approximately 1646, Lambsprinck, Jean, de Meun, approximately 1240-approximately 1305, Helvetius, Johann Friedrich, 1625-1709
- Engraver Merian, M.
- Publisher Apud Hermannum a Sande
- Subject Apud Hermannum a Sande, Basilius Valentinus, Norton, Thomas, Cremer, John, active 14th century, Flamel, Nicolas, -1418, Maier, Michael, 1568?-1622, Sędziwój, Michał, approximately 1556-approximately 1646, Lambsprinck, Jean, de Meun, approximately 1240-approximately 1305, Helvetius, Johann Friedrich, 1625-1709, Merian, M., Philalethes, Eirenaeus, Alchemy
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Trade card for Extrait de Viande de la Cie Liebig [Liebig Meat Extract Company] with Albertus Magnus
- 1929
…is often attributed with discovering the philosopher's stone but he did not publish on this subject so no record exists of this discovery. Liebig's…
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Testamentum Theorica
- 1446 – 1475
…Raimundus Lullus; 1232-1316), the famous Catalan philosopher, theologian, and mystic. The Testamentum was likely written by an anonymous fourteenth-century …to develop the idea of the elixir, or the philosophers’ stone, as the agent of the general perfection of matter – able to “cure” the imperfections…
- 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)
…Knowledge? Stories from the Museum Treasures The Philosophers’ Stove Conversation Piece Cloth of the World Butter-in-Law Cabinets for the Curious First … aL pasty ag Fl? uaa 7 adh: a ~. ate THE PHILOSOPHERS’ STOVE Recipes and Extracts on Alchemy, Medicine, Metal-Working, Cosmetics, Veterinary …would escape to a calmer time, turn to the philosophers, his- torians, economists, industrialists, and chemists who were the friends and acquaintances…
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Various works including Lucidarium artis transmutationis metallorum, extracts from the Sommeta and Violetta, and Epistola
- Transmutation de' mettali
- 1557
…theoretical, including definitions of the philosophers’ stone or elixir, the possibility of transmutation of imperfect metals, and chapters that…
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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
…to science at all, but in order--and some philosopher must have said this at some point--to perceive something, you have to be able to conceive…
- 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
…the material of the wall, principally with the stone, in less degree with the mortar. A means of avoiding this is to use only such materials as …method was used to get translucent marble and wet stone; but wherever he had occasion to use atmospheric light you will find opaque colors. I do not …technique. Ostwald was a German chemist and philosopher. In 1909, he received the Nobel Prize in Chemistry for his work on catalysis and his investigations…
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Baseline: The Chemist
- 1977
… scientist, the alchemist, seeker of the philosopher's stone, medicine man, bubbling glassware and magic black boxes. I am the humanist, familiar…
- Creator Of Work American Chemical Society
- Producer Screen Presentations, Inc.
- Subject Chemistry, Chemists, Women chemists, American Chemical Society, Chemical laboratories
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Chemical Heritage, Volume 20 Number 3
- 2002 (Fall)
…: “Harry Potter, Nicolas Flamel, and the Philosophers’ Stone.” Over 100 people attended, filling all the chairs and packing all other available …her laboratory she labored to create the philosophers’ stone, medi- cines, and various oils with great pow- ers for both humans and crops. In …alchemist who appears to have discovered the philosophers’ stone. C EN TER BECKMAN THE N EW S FROM ~_ @…
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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 Readers Write Stamps and …bestseller series, entitled Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone (lamentably and unnecessarily retitled Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone for…
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The Roy G. Neville Historical Chemical Library, Volume 1
- An Annotated Catalogue of Printed Books on Alchemy, Chemistry, Chemical Technology, and Related Subjects
- 2006
…nature,” or tincture of Paracelsus, and the philosopher’s stone. At the end are two “Aenigma” about the stone. (Caillet, 17; Duveen, 655; Ferchl …wife Perrenelle) that the search for the philosopher’s stone became the mania of the fif- teenth century. This influence was attributed to his …Compound of Alchymie by George Ripley, The Philosophers Stone by John Gower, Chaucer’s Canon’s Yeo-man’s Tale, and works by John Dastin, Abraham…
- Contributor Neville, Roy G.
- Publisher Chemical Heritage Foundation
- Subject Chemistry, Rare books, Alchemy
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Distillations, Volume 2 Number 2
- 2016 (Summer)
…sufficiently learned in alchemy to have created the philosophers’ stone. But almost as unusual as his transmutational skills were his origins: Philalethes …substances could be formed—and of course, the philosophers’ stone, which could transmute base metal into gold. The concept of gold making—or, more …mercury (a component needed to create the philosophers’ stone) as well as some of Newton’s own notes. Newton, of course, never knew he copied …
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Everyday Miracles of Modern Chemistry : Man, a Chemical Compound who Lives in a Chemical World!
- 1925
…- stance which they called variously the Philosopher’s Stone, the Elixir of Life, ete. This, they thought, had the power of trans- muting the …because it was generally believed that the Philosopher’s Stone could purge away certain impurities which the bases metals contained just as it …substances together in an attempt to find the Philosopher’s Stone. He used the white variety, a colorless, waxy solid, very poisonous, readily ignited…
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Distillations, Volume 1 Number 4
- 2015 (Winter)
…first emblem, showing the inception of the philosophers’ stone (the embryo). The god is Boreas, the north wind in Greek mythology, who typically … it. With this emblem we learn that “the philosophers’ stone is an act of creation made corporeal from that which is spiritual.” Bilak recently …mythological theme from which such images as the Philosopher’s Stone and the Fountain of Youth derive—that through touching or ingesting something one…
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The Roy G. Neville Historical Chemical Library, Volume 2
- An Annotated Catalogue of Printed Books on Alchemy, Chemistry, Chemical Technology, and Related Subjects
- 2006
…SMITH Waite, A. E. Lives of alchemistical philosophers. London, 1888. Catalog of the Edgar Fahs Smith Memorial Collection in the History of Chemistry …processes of practical chemistry, as well as the philosopher’s stone and transmutation. Ferguson attributes this work to Charles Le Breton, author of …method to the use of the schools. The French philosopher and Franciscan friar Le Grand (d. 1699), who was born at Douai, spent most of his life …
- Contributor Roy G. Neville Historical Chemical Library
- Publisher Chemical Heritage Foundation
- Subject Chemistry, Rare Books, Alchemy
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Chemical Heritage, Volume 21 Number 3
- 2003 (Fall)
…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 about the real 14th-century alchemist …Boyle and Isaac Newton, also pursued the philosopher’s stone. The knowledge and techniques available in the 16th and 17th centuries seemed to…
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Chemical Heritage, Volume 23 Number 2
- 2005 (Summer)
…the Othmer Library A Possible Link to the Philosopher’s Stone seemingly occult experiences that he became ill. After his recovery both he and … of the “prime material,” from which the philosopher’s stone— with its ability to transmute base metals into gold and create an elixir of im- …searching for the alleged key to his wealth, the philosopher’s stone. It was In real life, Nicolas Flamel (1330-— 1418), a Paris scrivener, became quite…
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Distillations, Volume 3 Number 1
- 2017 (Spring)
…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 was simple: no. …Inventions. Tesla told Morgan he would create a philosophers’ stone from his wireless technology—an endless source of wealth. But he may have un- derestimated ozone. It has become its own kind of philosophers’ stone. Through grand promises and chemical mystique, ozone therapy contin- ues to transmute…
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Best of Distillations Magazine, Volume 1
- Distillations, Volume 1, 2019
- 2019
…physician Hennig Brandt attempted to create the philosophers’ stone. This elusive goal had been pursued by alchemists for centuries for good reason: …produced and sold to apothecaries, natural philosophers, and showmen, who made the element the centerpiece of demonstrations at princely courts …, who worked upon urine in search of the Philosopher’s stone.” Macquer understood such transformations to be impossible, but in his unusually…
- Publisher Science History Institute
- Subject Science History Institute, Capsaicin, Peppers, Analgesia, Gold, Harry, Spies
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Distillations, Volume 1 Number 3
- 2015 (Fall)
…flights of fancy, such as the pursuit of the philosophers’ stone. But it was the grand narrative of material transformation embodied in the search for the philosophers’ stone that provided inspiration to 17th- and 18th-century artists; to chemists, such as …fol- lowed the teachings of ancient Greek philosophers, including Aristotle and Galen of Pergamon, who lived in the 2nd century. Galenics, as …
