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The Mirror of Alchimy appeared at a time when there was an explosion of interest in Bacon, magic and alchemy in England. The evidence of this is seen in popular plays of the time such as Marlowe's Dr. Faustus (c. 1588), Greene's Friar Bacon and Friar Bungay (1589), and Jonson's The Alchemist (1610). [ 7 ]
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. [1]
Texts, often compendiums, written on alchemy. Subcategories. This category has only the following subcategory. A. Alchemical works of the medieval Islamic world (3 P)
The Twelve Keys of Basil Valentine (German: Ein kurtz summarischer Tractat, von dem grossen Stein der Uralten lit. 'A Short Summary Tract: Of the Great Stone of the Ancients') is a widely reproduced alchemical book attributed to Basil Valentine.
In Renaissance alchemy, alkahest was the theorized "universal solvent". [ nb 1 ] It was supposed to be capable of dissolving any composite substance, including gold (then not considered an element), without altering or destroying its fundamental components. [ 1 ]
1652 Edition at the Internet Archive; English Alchemical verse from Theatrum Chemicum Britannicum on The Alchemy Website.; High-resolution scans of title page and all plates from 1652 edition freely available for download in variety of formats from Science History Institute Digital Collections at digital.sciencehistory.org
Though the Theatrum Chemicum is a book about alchemy, by its contemporary standards it represented a body of work that, in a modern context, is similar to texts such as The Handbook of Chemistry & Physics, The Physicians' Desk Reference, or other specialized texts for the practice and study of the sciences and philosophy, including medicine.
Gothic: Remake is an upcoming action role-playing video game developed by Alkimia Interactive for the systems Microsoft Windows, PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series. It is a remake of Piranha Bytes' in 2001 released video game of the same name. The remake is scheduled to be released by THQ Nordic in 2025.