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Alchemy

Alchemy (from the Arabic word al-kīmīā, الكیمیاء) is an ancient branch of natural philosophy, a philosophical and protoscientific tradition that was historically practised in China, India, the Muslim world, and Europe. In its Western form, alchemy is first attested in a number of pseudepigraphical texts written in Greco-Roman Egypt during the first few…

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5 Hen. 4. c. 4
Commencement
14 January 1404
Long title
It shall be felony to use the craft of multiplication of gold or silver.
Repealed by
Royal Mines Act 1688
Royal assent
20 March 1404

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related to Introductions and textbooks · 75
Alchemy → Antiquity, Arcana Sapienza, Beretta, Bernard, Bisanzio, Bloomsbury, Brepols, Bruce, Burnett, Byzantine, Carocci, Charles, Chemistry, Chicago, Chicago Press, Cristina, Cultural History Of Chemistry, Dall'Egitto, DDA-EB, De Diversis Artibus
related to Medieval Europe · 43
Alchemy → Abelard's, Adelard, Alcohol, Although European, Anselm, Anselm's, Arabic, Aristotelian, Aristotle, Avicenna, Bath, Book, Canterbury, Chester's, Christian, Composition, Cremona, Europe, European, February
related to Modern historical research · 28
Alchemy → Ambix, Amsterdam, Amsterdam's Sub-department, As, Bibliotheca Philosophica Hermetica, Chemistry, Esotericism, ESSWE, European Society, EXESESO, Exeter Centre, Hermetic Philosophy, History, Indiana University, Institutions, Isaac Newton, Isis, Journals, Related Currents, Rosicrucianism
related to Hellenistic Egypt · 27
Alchemy → AD, Agathodaimon, Alexandria, André-Jean Festugière, Egypt, Egyptian, Final Abstinence, Final Count, Following, Four Books, Greek, Hellenistic Egypt, It, Jewess, Mary, Panopolis, Pseudo-Democritus, Recent, Roman, Roman Empire
related to Etymology · 25
Alchemy → According, Arabic, Coptic, Demotic, Egypt, Egyptian, Egyptologist Wallis Budge, Greek, Hermann Diels, Khemeu, Land, Late Greek, Mediaeval Bohairic, Medieval Latin, Nile, Old French, Others, Panopolis, Several, The
related to Renaissance and early modern Europe · 25
Alchemy → Bacon, Christian Kabbalah, Corpus Hermeticum, De Occulta Philosophia, During, Esoteric, European, Europeans, German, He, Heinrich Cornelius Agrippa, Hermetic, Hermeticism, In, Italy, Judaism's Kabbalah, Latin, Marsilio Ficino, Plato, Platonic
related to Women · 25
Alchemy → After, Alchemist, Although, Arab, Cleopatra, Early, Essentially, Euthica, France, Greco-Roman, Her, Isis, Jewess, Maria, Mary, Medera, Michael Maier, Panopolis, Prophetess, Several
related to Psychology · 23
Alchemy → Alchemical, Among, Both, Carl Gustav Jung, Chinese, Collected Works, Franz, Golden Flower, He, His, It, Jung, Jungian, Jungian Swiss, Lapis, Marie-Louise, Mysterium Coniunctionis, Richard Wilhelm, Specifically, Swiss
related to Islamic world · 19
Alchemy → After, Arabic, Aristotelian, Geber, Geberus, Hayyan, Hayyān, Hermetic, In, Islamic, Islamic World, Jābir, Latinized, Much, Paul Kraus, Platonic, Roman Empire, Syriac, The
related to Later modern period · 19
Alchemy → Although, Aristotelian, As, Boyle, Early, European, He, Hermetic, James Price, John Dalton, Lavoisier, Moon, Neoplatonic, Paracelsian, Robert Boyle, Scholastic, Sun, The, This

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alchemical alchemists early gold greek chemistry work texts isbn century works also science modern medicine arabic spiritual centuries art history

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AlchemyCitation5 Hen. 4. c. 41.00infobox
AlchemyCommencement14 January 14041.00infobox
AlchemyLong titleIt shall be felony to use the craft of multiplication of gold or silver.1.00infobox
AlchemyRepealed byRoyal Mines Act 16881.00infobox
AlchemyRoyal assent20 March 14041.00infobox
Alchemyis aAlchemical Body by Indologist David Gordon White0.90text
Eric Jinstance ofdespite criticisms by scholars0.80text
Ortolanus interpreted it as ainstance ofMedieval commentators0.80text
Komariosinstance ofOther authors0.80text
Chymes are known only through surviving fragments of textinstance ofOther authors0.80text
elixirs were preferable to traditional medicinal treatment due to the spiritual protection they could provideinstance ofHong argued that alchemical solutions0.80text
the Book of Minerals where he observedinstance ofis known to have written works0.80text

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