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Category for articles related to tools used in alchemy. Pages in category "Alchemical tools" The following 11 pages are in this category, out of 11 total.
Bust depicting Zosimos, 3rd century Distillation equipment of Zosimos, from the 15th century Byzantine Greek manuscript Codex Parisinus 2327. [1]Zosimos of Panopolis (Greek: Ζώσιμος ὁ Πανοπολίτης; also known by the Latin name Zosimus Alchemista, i.e. "Zosimus the Alchemist") was an alchemist and Gnostic mystic.
In Europe, the 12th-century translations of medieval Islamic works on science and the rediscovery of Aristotelian philosophy gave birth to a flourishing tradition of Latin alchemy. [1] This late medieval tradition of alchemy would go on to play a significant role in the development of early modern science (particularly chemistry and medicine). [7]
These days, we would call them proprietary blends. But in the late 1500s and early 1600s, individual alchemists called the medicines they cooked up in their labs ‘secrets’. And now, thanks to ...
The word alchemy was derived from the Arabic word كيمياء or kīmiyāʾ [1] [2] and may ultimately derive from the ancient Egyptian word kemi, meaning black. [ 2 ] After the fall of the Western Roman Empire and the Islamic conquest of Roman Egypt , the focus of alchemical development moved to the Caliphate and the Islamic civilization .
Picture of an alembic from a medieval manuscript. An alembic (from Arabic: الإنبيق, romanized: al-inbīq, originating from Ancient Greek: ἄμβιξ, romanized: ambix, 'cup, beaker') [1] [2] [3] is an alchemical still consisting of two vessels connected by a tube, used for distillation of liquids.
It was the protoscientific, exoteric aspects of alchemy that contributed heavily to the evolution of chemistry in Greco-Roman Egypt, in the Islamic Golden Age, and then in Europe. Alchemy and chemistry share an interest in the composition and properties of matter, and until the 18th century they were not separate disciplines.
Stone Age stone mortar and pestle, Kebaran culture, 22000–18000 BC Rock mortars in Raqefet Cave, Israel, used for making beer during the Stone Age Mortars and pestles were invented in the Stone Age when humans found that processing food and various other materials by grinding and crushing into smaller particles allowed for improved use and various advantages.