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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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| Subject | Predicate | Object | Confidence | Src |
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| Alchemy | Citation | 5 Hen. 4. c. 4 | 1.00 | infobox |
| Alchemy | Commencement | 14 January 1404 | 1.00 | infobox |
| Alchemy | Long title | It shall be felony to use the craft of multiplication of gold or silver. | 1.00 | infobox |
| Alchemy | Repealed by | Royal Mines Act 1688 | 1.00 | infobox |
| Alchemy | Royal assent | 20 March 1404 | 1.00 | infobox |
| Alchemy | is a | Alchemical Body by Indologist David Gordon White | 0.90 | text |
| Eric J | instance of | despite criticisms by scholars | 0.80 | text |
| Ortolanus interpreted it as a | instance of | Medieval commentators | 0.80 | text |
| Komarios | instance of | Other authors | 0.80 | text |
| Chymes are known only through surviving fragments of text | instance of | Other authors | 0.80 | text |
| elixirs were preferable to traditional medicinal treatment due to the spiritual protection they could provide | instance of | Hong argued that alchemical solutions | 0.80 | text |
| the Book of Minerals where he observed | instance of | is known to have written works | 0.80 | text |
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