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The Philosopher's Stone (fairy Tale)
Philosopher's stone is a term for the legendary goal of Western alchemists. Philosopher's Stone also may refer to: Art, entertainment, and media Comics * Philosopher's Stone (''Fullmetal Alchemist''), a plot element in the manga series ''Fullmetal Alchemist'' ** "The Philosopher's Stone" (''Fullmetal Alchemist'' episode) *" The Fabulous Philosopher's Stone" (1954), a Donald Duck story Fictional entities * Philosopher's Stone, a magical object in the Harry Potter universe Films * ''Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone'' (film), the 2001 film directed by Chris Columbus, based on the novel of the same name *''Parash Pathar'' (1958) or ''The Philosopher's Stone'', a Bengali film by Satyajit Ray Games * '' The Quest of the Philosopher's Stone'' (1986), a fantasy board game published by Questone Marketing, Inc. * ''Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone'' (video game), 2001 video game based on the film of the same name. Literature * '' Den vises sten'', a fourteenth-cent ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Philosopher's Stone
The philosopher's stone or more properly philosophers' stone (Arabic: حجر الفلاسفة, , la, lapis philosophorum), is a mythic alchemical substance capable of turning base metals such as mercury into gold (, from the Greek , "gold", and , "to make") or silver. It is also called the elixir of life, useful for rejuvenation and for achieving immortality; for many centuries, it was the most sought-after goal in alchemy. The philosopher's stone was the central symbol of the mystical terminology of alchemy, symbolizing perfection at its finest, enlightenment, and heavenly bliss. Efforts to discover the philosopher's stone were known as the Magnum Opus ("Great Work"). History Antiquity The earliest known written mention of the philosopher's stone is in the ''Cheirokmeta'' by Zosimos of Panopolis (c. 300 AD). Alchemical writers assign a longer history. Elias Ashmole and the anonymous author of ''Gloria Mundi'' (1620) claim that its history goes back to Adam, who acquired t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Andreas Libavius
Andreas Libavius or Andrew Libavius was born in Halle, Germany c. 1550 and died in July 1616. Libavius was a renaissance man who spent time as a professor at the University of Jena teaching history and poetry. After which he became a physician at the Gymnasium in Rothenburg and later founded the Gymnasium at Coburg. Libavius was most known for practicing alchemy and writing a book called ''Alchemia'', one of the first chemistry textbooks ever written. Life Libavius was born in Halle, Germany, as Andreas Libau, the son of Johann Libau. His father, only a linen worker, could not give Libavius an education because in this time period only the wealthy were able to get a higher education. Showing great intelligence as a child Livavius overcame his personal status and attended the University of Whittenburg at the age of eighteen in 1578. In 1579 he entered the University of Jena where he studied philosophy, history and medicine. In 1581 he obtained the academic degree of ''magister ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Back On Top (Van Morrison Album)
''Back on Top'' is the twenty-seventh studio album by Northern Irish singer/songwriter Van Morrison, released in 1999 by Point Blank. It reached the Top Twenty in seven countries, building on the success of 1997's ''The Healing Game''. Recording Recorded at the Wool Hall Studios, south of Bath, England, except strings, which were recorded at Windmill Lane Studios, Dublin, Ireland. The musicians on the album are understated with Ian Jennings playing double bass, Geraint Watkins playing Hammond organ and Pee Wee Ellis on saxophones. Composition The opening track, "Goin' Down Geneva", has a very bluesy feel. Morrison's harmonica is prominent on "Philosopher's Stone", which features "one of the most limber vocal performances he's put on record in years, even tentatively jumping into the high squawk he seemed to have lost." Harmonica also features on "High Summer", which includes references to "Lucifer" and "God", and also alludes to Morrison's 1960s songs by way of "red sport cars" ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Philosopher's Stone (album)
''The Philosopher's Stone'' is a compilation album by Northern Irish singer-songwriter Van Morrison released in 1998 (see 1998 in music). The songs released on this 2-CD thirty-track album were previously unreleased outtakes from 1969 to 1988. The album features twenty-five songs that had never been released, and early alternative renditions of "The Street Only Knew Your Name" from ''Inarticulate Speech of the Heart'', "Wonderful Remark" from ''The Best of Van Morrison'', "Real Real Gone" from '' Enlightenment'', "Joyous Sound" and "Flamingos Fly" from '' A Period of Transition'', and "Bright Side of the Road" from ''Into the Music''. Three songs on the album were evidently intended for Morrison's unreleased 1975 album ''Mechanical Bliss''. "Twilight Zone", "Foggy Mountain Top" and "Flamingos Fly" were all mixed in 1974 just before ''Mechanical Bliss'' was due to come out. Original release ''The Philosopher's Stone, Volume One'' was originally scheduled to be released in July ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Der Stein Der Weisen
' (German for ''The Philosopher's Stone, or the Enchanted Isle'') is a two-act singspiel jointly composed by Johann Baptist Henneberg, Benedikt Schack, Franz Xaver Gerl, Emanuel Schikaneder, and Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart in 1790. The libretto was written by Schikaneder. Composition ''Der Stein der Weisen'' was composed using a "team approach" in which each composer contributed individual sections of the piece. All five wrote parts of act 2, and all except Mozart wrote parts of act 1. Henneberg composed the work's overture. Schikaneder wrote the libretto for the entire piece. The text is based on a fairy tale from Christoph Martin Wieland's ', published in the late 1780s. All five were later involved in ''The Magic Flute'': Mozart as composer, Schikaneder as librettist, impresario and performer (Papageno), Henneberg as conductor, and Schack and Gerl as performers (respectively Tamino and Sarastro). ''Der Stein der Weisen'' may have provided a model for that work, as the two hav ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Peter Marshall (author)
Peter Hugh Marshall (born 1946) is an English author of over a dozen works of philosophy, history, biography, travel writing, and poetry. He is best known for his 1991 history of anarchism, ''Demanding the Impossible'', and his 1984 biography of William Godwin. Early life and career Peter Marshall was born in Bognor Regis, England, on 23 August 1946 to the horse trainer William and Vera Marshall. He received a bachelor's degree from the University of London in 1970 and his master's and doctorate from the University of Sussex in 1971 and 1977, respectively. During his studies, Marshall taught English for a year in Dakar, Senegal, served two years in the British Merchant Navy, and was a University of London tutor in philosophy and literature, which he continued after receiving his doctorate. In 1981, he became a tutor in philosophy at the University College of North Wales, where he continued until 1990 and published books on William Godwin, William Blake, Tanzania, and Cuba. F ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Indiana Jones And The Philosopher's Stone
''Indiana Jones and the Philosopher's Stone'' is the ninth of 12 Indiana Jones novels published by Bantam Books. Max McCoy, the author of this book, also wrote three of the other Indiana Jones books for Bantam. Published on April 1, 1995, it is preceded by ''Indiana Jones and the White Witch'' and followed by ''Indiana Jones and the Dinosaur Eggs''. Plot introduction Indiana Jones hunts down an English alchemist, a Renaissance scholar and a stolen manuscript containing the great alchemical secrets of immortality and transmuting base metals to gold. The book was published only in paperback by Bantam Books of New York City in April 1995. Plot summary The novel begins with Indiana Jones descending down a hillside towards the lost city of Cozán, in the rain forests of Central America. After deciphering the clues in the pyramid, he discovers the Crystal Skull of Cozán and retrieves it, only for the artifact to be snatched away by the main antagonist, Leonardo Sarducci. Sarducci ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Harry Potter And The Philosopher's Stone
''Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone'' is a 1997 fantasy novel written by British author J. K. Rowling. The first novel in the ''Harry Potter'' series and Rowling's debut novel, it follows Harry Potter, a young wizard who discovers his magical heritage on his eleventh birthday, when he receives a letter of acceptance to Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry. Harry makes close friends and a few enemies during his first year at the school and with the help of his friends, Ron Weasley and Hermione Granger, he faces an attempted comeback by the dark wizard Lord Voldemort, who killed Harry's parents, but failed to kill Harry when he was just 15 months old. The book was first published in the United Kingdom on 26 June 1997 by Bloomsbury. It was published in the United States the following year by Scholastic Corporation under the title ''Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone''. It won most of the British book awards that were judged by children and other awards in the US ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Philosopher's Stone (novel)
''The Philosopher's Stone'' is a 1969 novel by the English writer Colin Wilson. It tells the story of two researchers who find a way to reach a higher state of consciousness, which leads to frightening revelations about humanity's distant history. Like Wilson's 1967 novel ''The Mind Parasites'', ''The Philosopher's Stone'' uses motifs from H. P. Lovecraft's Cthulhu Mythos. Reception Clifford P. Bendau wrote in ''Colin Wilson, the Outsider and Beyond'' from 1979: "The human striving for an inept management of freedom is, once again, the issue in ''The Philosopher's Stone''. ... Like ''The Mind Parasites ''The Mind Parasites'' is a science fiction horror novel by English author Colin Wilson. It was published by Arkham House in 1967 in an edition of 3,045 copies. It was Wilson's first and only book published by Arkham House. The book is based ...'', ''The Philosopher's Stone'' is a story that is a teaching; but it is also a teaching that is a story. It remains one of Colin W ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Den Vises Sten
''Den vises sten'' ('the philosopher's stone', an editorial title for a text unnamed in its manuscript) is a fourteenth-century Swedish poem about the Philosopher's Stone. Form The poem is in a metre uniquely complex for medieval Swedish literature. The poem comprises twelve verses, each of 13 lines, rhyming AABCCBDEDEFFE; most lines have four stresses and either masculine or feminine rhymes, but lines 3, 6, 8, 10, and 13 (i.e. rhymes ''b'' and ''e'') have three stresses and feminine rhymes.Stephen A. Mitchell,Spirituality and Alchemy in ''Den vises sten'' (1379), in ''Lärdomber oc skämptan: Medieval Swedish Literature Reconsidered'', ed. by Massimiliano Bampi and Fulvio Ferrari, Samlingar utgivna av Svenska fornskriftsällskapet, serie 3: Smärre texter och undersökningar 5 (Uppsala: Svenska fornskriftsällskapet, 2008), pp. 97-108. . Content The poem relates the characteristics of a wondrous stone, which can endow people with wisdom and strength, restore people's health (i ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Philosopher's Stone (Fullmetal Alchemist)
is a Japanese manga series written and illustrated by Hiromu Arakawa. It was serialized in Square Enix's ''shōnen'' manga anthology magazine '' Monthly Shōnen Gangan'' between July 2001 and June 2010; the publisher later collected the individual chapters into twenty-seven ''tankōbon'' volumes. The steampunk world of ''Fullmetal Alchemist'' is primarily styled after the European Industrial Revolution. Set in the early 20th century, in a fictional universe in which alchemy is a widely practiced science, the series follows the journey of two alchemist brothers, Edward and Alphonse Elric, who are searching for the philosopher's stone to restore their bodies after a failed attempt to bring their mother back to life using alchemy. ''Fullmetal Alchemist'' has been adapted into various animetwo television series and two films, all animated by Bonesas well as light novels. The series has generated original video animations, video games, supplementary books, a collecti ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Harry Potter And The Philosopher's Stone (video Game)
''Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone'' (released in the United States as ''Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone'') is an action-adventure video game based on the 2001 film of the same name. ''Philosopher's Stone'' was initially released for the Game Boy Advance, Game Boy Color, Microsoft Windows and PlayStation in November 2001. A different game bearing the same name was made two years later for the GameCube, PlayStation 2 and Xbox in December 2003. The versions on different platforms differ greatly from each other and do not follow the same level structures or gameplay, with somewhat varying stories as well. The story follows protagonist Harry Potter, who, after discovering he is a wizard, is sent to Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry where he makes friends and receives magical training, and along with his friends stop Lord Voldemort from returning to power. The game received mixed reviews. Critics commented on the game's accessible gameplay and its unimpressi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
