The Astrological Symbols were also employed by the Alchemists to indicate the seven metals then known.
It was peculiar to the Alchemists to treat all their operations as secrets; which, when recorded, were described partly by symbols and partly in a novel nomenclature, invented to conceal their mysteries from vulgar gaze or imitation.
The alchemists sometimes considered alcohol, or the ferment oils, as the fifth essence.
Even our hospitals and our laboratories and our operating rooms of which we are so proud will look like slightly improved workshops of alchemists and mediaeval surgeons.
This proved to be impossible but the alchemists in their laboratories stumbled upon many new ideas and greatly helped the work of the chemists who were their successors.
The alembic or still was invented by the Arabian alchemists for the purpose of obtaining the essential oil or attar of roses.
The Comte de Saint-Germain was the last of the alchemists who knew how to clearly explain their science; but he left no writings.
Let the alchemists of horticulture seek and seek again, let them set ever further and further back the limits to their happiness!
There is a universal religion made for the alchemists of thought, a religion which is disengaged from man, considered as a heavenly reminder.
And did Newton himself, in the ripest growth of his matchless intellect, hold the creed of the alchemists in scorn?
He was poor; for the secret by which metals may be transmuted is not, as the oldalchemists seem to imply, identical with that by which the elixir of life is extracted.
Of the form of this supposed elixir we know very little for the language of the alchemists was so vague and mystical that it is often very difficult to ascertain their meaning with any approach to certainty.
And, although many of the professional chemists or alchemists of the middle ages were undoubted charlatans and quacks, yet did we not have many of the same kind in the nineteenth century?
One of the objects which the better class of alchemistshad in view was the making of gold to such an extent that it might become quite common and cease to be sought after by mankind.
Some have claimed that the elixir and the philosopher's stone were one and the same thing, and some of the writings of the old alchemists would seem to confirm this view.
I have often wondered what the oldalchemists would have said if they had seen fluid mercury immersed in a clear liquid and brought out in the form of a lump of solid, bright metal.
The alchemists of the sixteenth century not only occupied themselves with experiment; some of them, as Augurelli, aspired to poetry.
The alchemists introduced no poetical fiction when they spoke of the microcosm, asserting that the system of man is emblematical of the system of the world.
Towards the 16th century the failure of the alchemists to achieve their cherished purpose, and the general increase of medical knowledge, caused attention to be given to the utilization of chemical preparations as medicines.
Some alchemists honestly laboured to effect the transmutation and to discover the "philosopher's stone," and in many cases believed that they had achieved success, if we may rely upon writings assigned to them.
This quinta essentia had been speculated upon by the Greeks, some regarding it as immaterial or aethereal, and others as material; and a school of philosophers termed alchemists arose who attempted the isolation of this essence.
The retaining ofalchemists at various courts shows the high opinion which the doctrines had gained.
In the succeeding iatrochemical period, the methods of the alchemists were improved and new ones devised.
The alchemists called gold Sol, the sun, and iron Mars, and pleased themselves with fancied relations between these substances and the heavenly bodies, by which they pretended to explain the facts they observed.
The founder of the Ashmolean Museum at Oxford, consorting with alchemists and astrologers, was treasuring the manuscripts of the late pious Dr.
However, the hoax, if hoax there were, was taken seriously, and as early as 1622, societies of alchemists at the Hague and elsewhere assumed the title R.
Also if there were still any alchemists searching for the philosopher's stone and the transmutation of metals?
Pope {124} John learned how much imposition was being practiced on the people by certain so-called alchemists who claimed to be able to make silver and gold out of baser metals.
Poor themselves, the alchemists promise riches which are not forthcoming; wise also in their own conceit they fall into the ditch which they themselves have digged.
The imaginary principles or elements of the alchemists were termed salt, sulphur, and mercury.
The elixirs of the alchemists were solutions employed in their fruitless attempts to transmute the baser metals into gold.
When I was getting together the material for my little book on the old alchemists I read a great deal at the library of the Arsenal, which, you may have heard, is singularly rich in all works dealing with the occult sciences.
The old alchemists believed in the possibility of spontaneous generation.
You are a bold man to assert that now and then the old alchemists actually did make gold,' she said.
The alchemists could describe it only in contraries.
We must not suppose that when the alchemists spoke of certain things as formed from, or by the union of, the same Elements or the same Principles, they meant that these things contained a common substance.
And as it is with metals, so, the alchemists argued, it is with all things.
Then remove the class-property, often spoken of by the alchemists as the life, of the substance, and you have the Essence itself.
The alchemists did not pretend to create gold, but only to produce it from other things.
A favourite saying of the alchemists was, "What is above is as what is below.
The alchemists tell us not to expect much help from books and written directions.
He ordered a complete chemical laboratory from Venice, and engaged alchemists to distill the water of immortality, by the help of which he hoped to ascend to the planets and discover the Philosophers' Stone.
Not perceiving any practical result of their labours, he ordered the laboratory to be burnt and the alchemists to be hung.
The old alchemists seem to have based their theories on the belief that all metals, and indeed all matter, contained one common element, of which the purest and most perfect form on this earth was gold.
We naturally hear little of mediaeval alchemists in the legal records.
The pretended secret of the Alchemists was the transmutation of the baser metals into gold, which they occasionally exhibited to keep the dupes who supplied them with money in good spirits.
The name given to this metal by the alchemists was Venus (Fig.
Crucibles were so-called from originally being impressed by the alchemists with the sign of the cross.
In our superior knowledge we are disposed to speak in a patronizing tone of the follies of the alchemists of old.
Many of the alchemists of old felt that they lacked but one element; if they could obtain that one, they believed they could transmute the baser metals into pure gold.
Of such is the kingdom of alchemists and their brethren.
The original alchemists sought the secret of converting the baser metals into gold, in itself a sufficiently alluring and human occupation.
Yet chemists, who are so sure the alchemists had no ground for their beliefs, do not always agree among themselves.
Thereupon the world derided the alchemists and lauded Lavoisier whose experiments laid the foundation for the intricate science of modern chemistry.
The alchemists were dreamers rather than doers after all, and though it is the fashion to laud the doers it is often the dreamers that see most clearly.
Watching the falling embers of the Yule log leap into flames before they turn gray, I am apt to think that the intuition of the alchemists touched a truth that the chemical apparatus missed.
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