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9781169762015: Remarks Upon Alchemy and the Alchemists
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1857. This work includes remarks upon alchemy and the alchemists, indicating a method of discovering the true nature of Hermetic philosophy; and showing that the search after the philosopher's stone had not for its object the discovery of an agent for the transmutation of metals. Being also an attempt to rescue from the undeserved opprobrium the reputation of a class of extraordinary thinkers in past ages.
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Alchemy was a pretended science by which gold and silver were to be made by the-transmutation of the baser metals into these substances, the agent of the transmutation being called the philosophers stone. Those who professed this Art are supposed to have been either impostors or under a delusion created by impostors and mountebanks. This opinion has found its way into works onS cience, and has been stereotyped in biographical dictionaries and in encyclopaedias, large and small; and, in general, allusions to A lchemy, in histories, romances, and novels, are of but one character, and imply that the professors of the Art were either deluders or deluded, were guilty of fraud or the victims of it. It may be a hopeless task to announce a different persuasion with the expectation of superseding this deeply rooted prejudice ;but the author thinks it a duty to declare the opinion he has derived from a careful reading of many alchemical volumes, and in the following remarks he has taken for his thesis the proposition that Man was the subject of A lchemy; and that the object of the Art was the perfection, or at least the improvement, of INI an.
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  • VerlagKessinger Publishing
  • Erscheinungsdatum2010
  • ISBN 10 1169762018
  • ISBN 13 9781169762015
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