THE SUPERNATURAL
by Neil Powell
THE DANBURY PRESS
A DIVISION OF GROLIER ENTERPRISES INC.
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Book Details
Price
|
2.00 |
|---|---|
Pages
| 145 p |
File Size
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6,788 KB |
File Type
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PDF format |
ISBN
| 0-7172-8105-1 |
Copyright©
| 1976 Aldus Books Limited, London |
The Ancient Science
For centuries a number of men of science and
learning spent their lives in the practice of
alchemy, searching for a way to change
ordinary metals into gold. Why did they try?
Did any of them succeed? We know that
alchemists today continue the old tradition
and the age-old quest. Will they succeed?
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Series Coordinator: John Mason
Design Director: Giinter Radtke
Picture Editor: Peter Cook
Editor: Sally Burningham
Copy Editor: Mitzi Bales
Research: Sarah Waters
General Consultant: Beppie Harrison
PUBLISHER
ROBERT B. CLARKE
EDITORIAL CONSULTANTS:
COLIN WILSON URI GELLER
Table of Contents
1 The Meaning of Alchemy
The basic ideas and processes of the traditional alchemists.
2 The Principles of Alchemy
The theoretical background to the work that the alchemists carried out. 24
3 Two Mysterious Frenchmen
Flamel, a medieval alchemist, and Fulcanelli, a modern writer on alchemy. 40
4 The Medieval Masters
Mysterious figures, half-veiled in legend, of alchemy's great period. 54
5 The Wandering Alchemists
The masters who traveled from city to city contacting other adepts. 80
6 What Happened to Alchemy?
The changes that occurred in alchemy as the infant sciences developed. 96
7 Sex and Symbolism
The course of Eastern alchemy, and how it influenced alchemy in the West. 118
8 Alchemy Lives On
The practice of alchemy in the 20th century. 130
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First published in the United Kingdom in 1976
by Aldus Books Limited
Library of Congress Catalog Card No: 75-10892
D.L. S.S.: 173/76
Printed and bound in Spain
by TONSA San Sebastian
and RONER Madrid
Frontispiece: 17th-century alchemist by Van Ostade.
Above: porcelain caricature figurines of alchemists.