The lure and romance of alchemy / by C.J.S. Thompson.

  • Charles Thompson
Date:
[1932]
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Credit: The lure and romance of alchemy / by C.J.S. Thompson. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Open Entrance, The, 70 Operations, alchemical, symbols for, 125 Ordinall of Alkimie, 95, 96-98 Oxford, Boyle at, 224 Papyri, Graeco-Egyptian, alchemical information in, 41-42 Paracelsus, 21, 166-172 Paykull, 149 Pelican, the, 112 Personal Tour through the United Kingdom, 218-220 Philosopher’s egg, the, 114 Philosopher’s Stone, 68-76 ; search for, 68-70 ; colour of, 71 ; prepa¬ ration of, 71-74; virtues of, 74- 76. Philosophical Transactions, 221 Phlogiston theory, 229, 230 Phosphorus, discovery of, 225-228 Pills of Immortality, 51 Pills of the Moon, 18 Pinter, Edward, 234 Planets and metals associated, 16, 17 Poison detection, early method of, 57-58 Pompholix, 240 Porta, Giambattista della, 214-215 ‘ Potable Gold,’ 200 ‘ Powder of Saturn,’ 23 Prague, laboratory of Emperor Rudolph II at, 150-151 ; Arab charlatan at, 15 3-154 Prayers before alchemical experi¬ ments, 108-109 Precious stones artificially made, 30 Price, James, 216-218 Primal elements, early beliefs con¬ cerning, 12 Primum ens Melissae, 75-76 Processes, alchemical, symbolic re¬ presentation of, 128-130 Pseudo-alchemists, 78, 162 Purple of Cassius, 18, 30 Quicksilver, 20 Radium, 243 ; Sir William Ramsay’s investigations of, 244 Red oxide of mercury, 20, 21, 66, 241 248 Retorts, the, 111-112 Revelation of the Hidden Key, The, 160 Rhazes, 62-64 Richthausen, 148, 157-158 Ripley, George, 92-94 Robert of Chester, 91 Rosencreutz, Christian, 204-205 Rosicrucians—see Fraternity of the Rosy Cross Royal Society of London founded, 223 Royalty, alchemists and, 140-149 Rubies, artificial, to make, 57 Rudolph II, Emperor, 148, 150 Rupert, Prince, studies chemistry, 146-147 Sage’s Step, The, 65-66 St Margaret’s, Westminster, sym¬ bolic window, 201 Sal, 241 Saljovis, 24 Salts of Mars, 22 Sapphires changed into diamonds, 57 Schwertzer, Sebald, 147-148 Scotta, Alessandro, 154 Secret Academy of Nobility, 223 Secretis Artis Natures, De, 91 Secretum Secretorum, 33 Seeds of metals, belief in, 16 Sendivogius, Michael, 190-192 Serpent, the, 113 Seton, Alexander, 188-190 Sextus Julius Africanus, 44-45 Sheba, Queen of, 26 Silver, 17, 18-19 Silver nitrate, 18, 241 Skeptical Chymist, The, 225 Soma rasa plant, 54 Specificum purgans, 241 Spirit of the World, the, 226 Spiritus, 241 ‘ Spiritus Nitro-Aereus,’ 229 Splendor Solis, 136, 139 Stahl, Georg Ernst, 229 Stalbridge, Boyle at, 224 Still, the, hi Stoics, the, 48 Stringer, Moses, 201-202
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