Reaching the Goal of Alchemy – or: What Happens When You Finally Have Created the Philosophers’ Stone?
Alchemy is the art of transforming base metals into precious ones, usually silver and/or gold. The most important method conceived to reach this goal was the creation of the elixir, also called the philosophers’ stone, which, applied to the prime-matter, would lead to an accelerated process of ripen...
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| Language: | English |
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2020-03-01
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| Series: | Studia Humana |
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| Online Access: | https://doi.org/10.2478/sh-2020-0006 |