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Alchemy
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: The science by aid of which the chemical philosophers of
medieval times attempted to transmute the baser metals into gold or silver.
There is considerable divergence of opinion as to the etymology of the word,
but it would seem to be derived from the Arabic al=the, and kimya=chemistry,
which in t ....
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....zantium of the fourth century, however, that alchemical science
received embryonic form. There is little doubt that Egyptian tradition,
filtering through Alexandrian Hellenic sources was the foundation upon
which the infant science was built, and this is borne out by the
circumstance that the art was attributed to Hermes Trismegistus and
supposed to be contained in its entirety in his works.
The Arabs, after their conquest of Egypt in the seventh century, carried
on the researches of the Alex.... |
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