If he had stuck to alchymy while in their country, it would have been well for him; but he began cursing Mahomet, and got himself into trouble.
As his practice of alchymy was well-known, it was thought the box was filled with gold and silver, and the Cordeliers congratulated each other on their rich acquisition.
While alchymy was thus cultivated on the continent of Europe, it was not neglected in the isles of Britain.
Several works upon alchymy have been published under his name.
It contained all the secrets ofalchymy and of many other sciences, and was the most valuable book that had ever existed in this world.
Ortholani was another pretender, of whom nothing is known, but that he exercised the arts of alchymy and astrology at Paris, shortly before the time of Nicholas Flamel.
One of the greatest encouragers of alchymy in the fifteenth century was Gilles de Laval, Lord of Rays and a Marshal of France.
Where he got the money to live in this expensive style was long a secret: the adepts in alchymy easily explained it, after their fashion.
History of Alchymy from the earliest periods to the Fifteenth Century.
The writers upon alchymy all claim Jacques Coeur as a member of their fraternity, and treat as false and libellous the more rational explanation of his wealth which the records of his trial afford.
All the writers upon alchymy triumphantly cite the story of the golden calf, in the 32nd chapter of Exodus, to prove that this great lawgiver was an adept, and could make or unmake gold at his pleasure.
Before their time, alchymy was but a grovelling delusion; and theirs is the merit of having spiritualised and refined it.
A sect of Paracelsists sprang up in France and Germany, to perpetuate the extravagant doctrines of their founder upon all the sciences, and upon alchymy in particular.
The dogma that Alchymy was only a form of chemistry is untenable by any one who has read the works of its chief professors.
Alchymy has had other and nobler singers than Ripley and Norton.
In one book the whole mysteries of the Hermetic philosophy are expounded, and the wonders of alchymy dazzle us in every page.
He no longer thirsted after the discovery of the grand elixir: the dream of alchymy was over; for, without Inez, what was the value of the philosopher's stone?
He repelled with scorn the aspersions cast uponalchymy by the ignorant and vulgar.
To this the inquisitor observed, that alchymy had become a mere covert for secret and deadly sins.
Indeed, the old man delighted in the mystic phrases and symbolical jargon in which the writers that have treated of alchymy have wrapped their communications; rendering them incomprehensible except to the initiated.
Every philosophical mind must be convinced that alchymy is not an art, which some have fancifully traced to the remotest times; it may be rather regarded, when opposed to such a distance of time, as a modern imposture.
Did they believe that alchymy would be so productive of the precious metals as to abate the value of the coin; or does multiplication refer to an arbitrary rise in the currency by order of the government?
Cæsar commanded the treatises of alchymy to be burnt throughout the Roman dominions: Cæsar, who is not less to be admired as a philosopher than as a monarch.
Fluctibus wrote a long reply, in which he called Mersenne an ignorant calumniator, and reiterated that alchymy was a profitable science, and the Rosicrucians worthy to be the regenerators of the world.
That he practisedalchymy is equally certain, as he left behind several works upon the subject.
In the age when alchymy began to fall into some disrepute, and learning to lift up its voice against it, a new delusion, based upon this power of imagination, suddenly arose, and found apostles among all the alchymists.
For more than a thousand years the art of alchymy captivated many noble spirits, and was believed in by millions.
Among the works written by Nicholas Flamel on the subject ofalchymy is The Philosophic Summary, a poem, reprinted in 1735, as an appendix to the third volume of the Roman de la Rose.
He then established himself as a physician in his native Switzerland at Zurich, and commenced writing works upon alchymy and medicine, which immediately fixed the attention of Europe.
Alchymy may have suggested the chemical processes--but the Arabians applied them to the preparation of medicines, and thus opened a new and most copious source of investigation.
He terms the fundamental force of a thing a star, and defines alchymy the art of drawing out the stars of metals.
Thus I have brought the history of alchymy to the time of Paracelsus, when it was doomed to undergo a new and important change.
The fifth part of the Prosperity of Germany; clearly and solidly demonstrating and as it were showing with the fingers, what alchymy is, and what benefit may, by the help thereof, be gotten every where and in most places of Germany.
The history of Iatro-chemistry forms a branch of our subject scarcely less extraordinary than Alchymy itself.
Thus the principles which lie at the bottom ofalchymy were implicitly adopted by him.
Alchymy had introduced another set of elements, and the alchymists maintained that salt, sulphur, and mercury, were the true elements of things.
But the most generally-received opinion is, that alchymy originated in Egypt; and the honour of the invention has been unanimously conferred upon Hermes Trismegistus.
Perhaps the most curious of all these works is the Rosarium, which is intended as a complete compend of all the alchymy of his time.
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