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Theatrum Chemicum
(''"Chemical Theatre"'') is a compendium of early alchemical writings published in six volumes over the course of six decades. The first three volumes were published in 1602, while the final sixth volume was published in its entirety in 1661. remains the most comprehensive collective work on the subject of alchemy ever published in the Western world. The full title of the work is ,Roughly translated as "Chemical Theatre, for a particularly selected person responsible for handling about Chemicals and the Philosopher's Stone. Ancient, truthful, pure, excellent, and working, containing: An account of True Chemicals, and the study of Medical Chemicals (how to most fruitfully accomplish the best remedy) brought together as parts in arrangement. though later volumes express slightly modified titles. For the sake of brevity, the work is most often referred to simply as . All volumes of the work, with exception of the last two volumes, were published by Lazarus Zetzner in Oberursel an ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pietro Perna
Pietro is an Italian masculine given name. Notable people with the name include: People * Pietro I Candiano (c. 842–887), briefly the 16th Doge of Venice * Pietro Tribuno (died 912), 17th Doge of Venice, from 887 to his death * Pietro II Candiano (c. 872–939), 19th Doge of Venice, son of Pietro I A–E * Pietro Accolti (1455–1532), Italian Roman Catholic cardinal * Pietro Aldobrandini (1571–1621), Italian cardinal and patron of the arts * Pietro Anastasi (1948–2020), Italian former footballer * Pietro di Antonio Dei, birth name of Bartolomeo della Gatta (1448–1502), Florentine painter, illuminator and architect * Pietro Aretino (1492–1556), Italian author, playwright, poet, satirist and blackmailer * Pietro Auletta (1698–1771), Italian composer known mainly for his operas * Pietro Baracchi (1851–1926), Italian-born astronomer * Pietro Bellotti (1625–1700), Italian Baroque painter * Pietro Belluschi (1899–1994), Italian architect * Pietro Bembo (1470–15 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Elixir Of Life
The elixir of life, also known as elixir of immortality, is a potion that supposedly grants the drinker eternal life and/or eternal youth. This elixir was also said to cure all diseases. Alchemists in various ages and cultures sought the means of formulating the elixir. History Ancient Mesopotamia An early mention of an elixir of life is found in the Epic of Gilgamesh (from the 2nd millennium BC) in which Gilgamesh comes to fear his own declining years following the death of his beloved companion Enkidu. He seeks out Utnapishtim, a Noah-like figure in Mesopotamian mythology in which he was a servant of the great Alchemist of the rain who later became immortal, to seek out the advice of the King of Herod of the Land of Fire. Gilgamesh is directed by him to find a plant at the bottom of the sea which he does but seeks first to test it on an old man before trying it himself. Unfortunately, it is eaten by a serpent before he can do so. China Many rulers of ancient China so ... [...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] |
Secretum Secretorum
The or (from Latin: "The Secret of Secrets"), also known as the ( ar, كتاب سر الأسرار, lit=The Secret Book of Secrets), is a pseudo-Aristotelian treatise which purports to be a letter from Aristotle to his student Alexander the Great on an encyclopedic range of topics, including statecraft, ethics, physiognomy, astrology, alchemy, magic, and medicine. The earliest extant editions claim to be based on a 9th-century Arabic translation of a Syriac translation of the lost Greek original. Modern scholarship finds it likely to have been a 10th-century work composed in Arabic. Translated into Latin in the mid-12th century, it was influential among European intellectuals during the High Middle Ages. Origin The origin of the treatise remains uncertain. The Arabic edition claims to be a translation from Greek by 9th-century scholar Abu Yahya ibn al-Batriq (died 806 CE), and one of the main translators of Greek-language philosophical works for Al-Ma'mun, working from a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cabala Chemica
Cabala (alternately Kabbala(h) or Qabala(h)) may refer to one of several systems of mysticism: * Kabbalah (קַבָּלָה), a system of Jewish mysticism ** Lurianic Kabbalah, a school of Kabbalah named after Isaac Luria ** Practical Kabbalah, branch of the Jewish mystical tradition that concerns the use of magic ** Prophetic Kabbalah, Abraham Abulafia's system of meditative Kabbalah in Judaism * Christian Kabbalah, interpreted according to Christian theology * Hermetic Qabalah, a Western esoteric tradition involving mysticism and the occult ** English Qabalah interprets the letters of the English alphabet via an assigned set of numerological significances ** English Qaballa, an English esoteric and magical tradition Other traditions with some similarities to Kabbalistic doctrine or methods * Gnosticism, classical belief systems speculating hierarchical mythic processes of good and evil in divine creation * Neoplatonism, classical philosophy of descending divine emanationism * Huru ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Arcanum Philosophorum
Arcanum may refer to: Music * Arcanum (album), ''Arcanum'' (album), a 1996 album by Acoustic Alchemy * The Arcanum (album), ''The Arcanum'' (album), a 2000 album by Suidakra * ''Arcanum'', a piece of music by Ezequiel Viñao * ''Arcanum'', song off the album Dog Whistle by Show Me the Body * Arckanum, a black metal band Other uses * Arcanum, Ohio, a village in the United States * Arcanum (encyclical), ''Arcanum'' (encyclical), a 1880 Catholic encyclical letter * Arcanum (comics), ''Arcanum'' (comics), an American comic book published by Image Comics * ''Arcanum: Of Steamworks and Magick Obscura'', a 2001 computer role-playing game * The Arcanum (role-playing game), ''The Arcanum'' (role-playing game), a 1981 pen-and-paper role-playing game * The Arcanum (novel), ''The Arcanum'' (novel), a 2005 novel by Thomas Wheeler * The Arcanum (Gleeson book), ''The Arcanum'' (non fiction), a 1998 non-fiction book on the history of porcelain * The Grand Arcanum, the secret of the philosopher ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Turba Philosophorum
The ''Turba Philosophorum'', also known as ''Assembly of the Philosophers'', is one of the oldest European alchemy texts, translated from the Arabic, like the Picatrix. It is considered to have been written c. 900 A.D. The text To quote Plessner, "the ''Turba Philosophorum'', written c. 900 A.D., is a well planned and, from a literary point of view, a most remarkable attempt to put Greek alchemy into the Arabic language and to adapt it to Islamic science".Martin Plessner, ''The Place of the Turba Philosophorum in the Development of Alchemy'' ISIS, Vol. 45, No. 4, Dec. 1954, pp. 331-338 Nine philosophers take part in a discussion, being, once the text has been transcribed back to the original Arabic, Anaximander, Anaximenes of Miletus, Anaximenes, Anaxagoras, Empedocles, Archelaus (philosopher), Archelaus, Leucippus, Ecphantus the Pythagorean, Ecphantus, Pythagoras and Xenophanes. The statements of the philosophers, whilst usually different from the known beliefs of the pre-Socrati ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Isaac Newton
Sir Isaac Newton (25 December 1642 – 20 March 1726/27) was an English mathematician, physicist, astronomer, alchemist, theologian, and author (described in his time as a "natural philosopher"), widely recognised as one of the greatest mathematicians and physicists and among the most influential scientists of all time. He was a key figure in the philosophical revolution known as the Enlightenment. His book (''Mathematical Principles of Natural Philosophy''), first published in 1687, established classical mechanics. Newton also made seminal contributions to optics, and shares credit with German mathematician Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz for developing infinitesimal calculus. In the , Newton formulated the laws of motion and universal gravitation that formed the dominant scientific viewpoint for centuries until it was superseded by the theory of relativity. Newton used his mathematical description of gravity to derive Kepler's laws of planetary motion, account for ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sir Thomas Browne
Sir Thomas Browne (; 19 October 1605 – 19 October 1682) was an English polymath and author of varied works which reveal his wide learning in diverse fields including science and medicine, religion and the esoteric. His writings display a deep curiosity towards the natural world, influenced by the scientific revolution of Baconian enquiry and are permeated by references to Classical and Biblical sources as well as the idiosyncrasies of his own personality. Although often described as suffused with melancholia, Browne's writings are also characterised by wit and subtle humour, while his literary style is varied, according to genre, resulting in a rich, unique prose which ranges from rough notebook observations to polished Baroque eloquence. Biography Early life Browne was born in the parish of St Michael, Cheapside, in London on 19 October 1605, the youngest child- having an elder brother and two elder sisters- of Thomas Browne, a silk merchant from Upton, Cheshire, a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Physicians' Desk Reference
The ''Prescriber's Digital Reference'' (''PDR'') is a compilation of manufacturers' prescribing information (package insert) on prescription drugs, updated regularly and published by ConnectiveRx. History The original PDR was titled "Physician's Desk Reference" but was renamed because not all prescribers are physicians and the reference is no longer a hardback book stored on a desk. While designed to provide physicians with the full legally mandated information relevant to writing prescriptions (just as its name suggests), it is widely available in libraries and bookstores, widely used by other medical specialists, and sometimes valuable to the layman. The compilation is financially supported in part by pharmaceutical manufacturing corporations which create drugs listed within its pages. The 71st Edition, published in 2017, was the final hardcover edition. It weighed in at and contained information on over 1,000 drugs. Since then, the PDR has been available online (PDR.net) f ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
