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Gold

Images

  • An alchemist and his assistant hoping to turn base metal into gold. Aquatint after T. Rowlandson.
  • The adoration of the magi: a king kneels before the infant Jesus, seated on Mary's lap. Engraving by E. Fessard after C.J. Natoire.
  • An alchemist and his assistant hoping to turn base metal into gold. Aquatint after T. Rowlandson.
  • An alchemist making gold. Oil painting by Hendrik Heerschop, 1665.
  • Jesus calls Matthew away from his vocation as a tax collector. Coloured lithograph by F. Hanfstaengl after S. Wiedenbauer after G.A. Pordenone.
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    De l'or, de son emploi dans le traitement de la syphilis ... et ... des dartres syphilitiques; du mercure, de son inefficacité, et des dangers de l'administrer dans le traitement des mêmes maladies; avec une appréciation du traitement antiphlogistique / Par A. Legrand, d'Amiens.

    Legrand, A. (Alexandre Louis), 1799-1862. | Date: 1828
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    L'art d'essayer l'or et l'argent. Tableau comparé de la coupellation des substances métalliques, par le moyen du Plomb our du Bismuth : procédés pour obtenir l'or plus pur que par la voie du Départ ... / par M. Sage.

    Sage, Balthazar Georges, 1740-1824. | Date: 1780
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    The best of times, the worst of times : a bio-cultural analysis of the Ferguson District, 1892-1909 / by Dawna E. Ferris.

    Ferris, Dawna E. | Date: 1991
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    Furni novi philosophici, sive descriptio artis destillatoriæ novæ. Nec non spirituuni, oleorum, florum, aliorumque medicamentorum illius beneficio, facilimâ quâdam & perculiari viâ è vegetabilibus, animalibus & mineralibus conficiendorum & quidem magno cum lucro; agens quoque de illorum usu tàm chymico quàm medico / edita & publicata in gratiam veritatis studiosorum per Joannem Rudolphum Glauberum.

    Glauber, Johann Rudolf, 1604-1670. | Date: 1651
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    Metabolism, pharmacology, and therapeutic uses of gold compounds / by Walter D. Block and Kornelius Van Goor.

    Block, Walter David, 1911- | Date: [1956]
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