Gerarde refers to the use made by the alchymists of this Fern in those mystic compounds over which they pored night and day, and he also states that it was a plant prized by witches, who called it Martagon.
Niebuhr thinks this may be the herb which the Eastern alchymists employed as a means of making gold.
The old alchymists professed to be able, by means of the Moonwort, which they called Lunaria minor, or Lesser Lunary, to extract sterling silver from Mercury.
He studied him assiduously for two years; and being young, rich, and credulous, Was beset by all the alchymists of the town, who kindly assisted him in spending his money.
Bernard sent a polite invitation to the confessor, and gave him a sumptuous entertainment, at which were present nearly all the alchymistsof Vienna.
About the same time, the celebrated Father Kircher published his Subterranean World, in which he called the alchymists a congregation of knaves and impostors, and their science a delusion.
To silence these rumours, he invited many alchymists from foreign countries to reside with him, and circulated a counter rumour, that he had discovered the secret of the philosopher's stone.
Such stories as these, confidently related by men high in station, tended to keep up the infatuation of the alchymists in every country of Europe.
Wherever he stopped he made inquiries whether there were any alchymists in the neighbourhood.
The alchymists say, that he succeeded at last, and discovered the secret of transmutation in his eighty-second year.
The alchymists claim him, however, as one of the most distinguished and successful professors of their art, and say that his bulls were not directed against the real adepts, but the false pretenders.
The alchymists watched this precious mess with intense interest, expecting that it would agglomerate into one lump of pure gold.
Lorenza was an apt scholar; she soon learned all the jargon of the alchymists and all the spells of the enchanters; and thus accomplished the hopeful pair set out on their travels, to levy contributions on the superstitious and the credulous.
Our alchymists too plainly saw that nothing more was to be made of the almost destitute Count Laski.
All the alchymists were in arms immediately, to refute this formidable antagonist.
Kircher the Jesuit, whose quarrel with the alchymists was the means of exposing many of their impostures, was a firm believer in the efficacy of the magnet.
About the same time, the celebrated Father Kircher published his "Subterranean World," in which he called the alchymists a congregation of knaves and impostors, and their science a delusion.
The alchymists claim him, however, as one of the most distinguished and successful professors of their art, and say that his Bulls were not directed against the real adepts, but the false pretenders.
The ounce of black powder stood him, however, in better service; for the alchymists say that, by its means, he converted great quantities of quicksilver into the purest gold.
He invited all the alchymists and learned men of Paris to come and examine them, but they all departed as wise as they came.
Raymond told him that he must find it for himself, as all great alchymists had done before him.
To silence these rumours, he invited many alchymists from foreign countries to reside with him, and circulated a counter-rumour, that he had discovered the secret of the philosopher's stone.
He died at Rhodes, in the year 1490, and all the alchymists of Europe sang elegies over him, and sounded his praise as the "good Trevisan.
Popular belief alleged that he had made, and not amassed, this treasure; and alchymists complacently cite this as a proof that the philosopher's stone was not such a chimera as the incredulous pretended.
Germany also produced many famous alchymists in the fifteenth century, the chief of whom are Basil Valentine, Bernard of Treves, and the Abbot Trithemius.
It might therefore have been employed by impostors to persuade the ignorant that it was really the philosopher’s stone; but the alchymists who prepared the amalgam could not be ignorant that it contained gold.
Boerhaave made a set of most elaborate experiments, to refute the ideas of the alchymists respecting the possibility of fixing mercury.
As thealchymists were assiduous workmen--as they mixed all the metals, salts, &c.
The writings of the alchymists are so voluminous and so mystical, that it would have afforded materials for a very long work.
It was then distilled in a glass retort, by a temperature gradually raised to redness, but not a particle of mercury was evaporated, as it had been alleged by thealchymists would be the case.
The subsequent pretensions of the alchymists to convert the baser metals into gold are no where avowed by him.
Had the other alchymists written as plainly, the absurdity of their researches would have been sooner discovered, and thus a useless or pernicious investigation would have sooner terminated.
Few of the alchymists who have left writings behind them boast of being possessed of the philosopher’s stone.
The original author, whom all who have given any account of the alchymists have followed, is Olaus Borrichius, in his Conspectus Scriptorum Chemicorum Celebriorum.
But to convey as precise ideas on this subject as possible, it may be worth while to state a few of the methods by which the alchymists persuaded themselves that they could convert the baser metals into gold.
Alchymy had introduced another set of elements, and the alchymists maintained that salt, sulphur, and mercury, were the true elements of things.
Alchymists convert stones into gold; but architects change gold into stone.
Galiani, 1750, Della Moneta, IV, holds a very happy middle place between the alchymists and the philosophic contemners of gold.
The mysticism of gold was most highly developed among the alchymists of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "alchymists" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
