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Alchemy works translations, commentaries, and presentations of hidden evidence in myths, art, nature, science history

  • Classical Alchemy
    • The State of the Art
    • An Intriguing Case
    • Opus Magnum Scheme
    • Turba Philosophorum’s Ambition
    • Areas of Interest
    • Index of the Names
    • Articles
    • Lexicon
  • Anatomy of an Alchemical Machine
  • The Sound Sacrifice
  • Introductory Notes to the Boards of Pure Force

Alchemy & Ancient Chemistry

Lancillotti and how to Calcine, or Powder, Metals

by Iulia Millesima

Nuova Guida alla Chimica by Carlo Lancillotti on the indispensable operations to reduce metals to a very subtle powder or calcination.

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Lancillotti: Glass and Oil according to Currus Thriumphalis. Part 1

by Iulia Millesima

The glass of Antimony and the Oil of it. Antimony as a fume. And an enigmatic Festina Lente. Carlo Lancillotti repeats the works in Basilius Currus Triumphalis.

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Lancillotti and the Starry Regulus according to Basilius

by Iulia Millesima

Basilius Valentinus was made easy by Carlo Lancillotti in an effortless chemical language from Currus Triumphalis Antimonii. Experiences on Starry Regulus.

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Nicaise le Febvre and the Egg inside the Egg

by Iulia Millesima

Nicaise le Febvre, not to be confused with Nicolas le Fevre, was another well-known French seventeenth-century iatrochemist. Neglecting his Traitè de la Chymie, Paris 1660, might be a mistake. I consider this book indispensable to tying ancient chemistry to Alchemy. Here is a unique laboratory tool: the egg inside the egg.

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Brouaut, how to Extract the Dye and Soul

by Iulia Millesima

To deprive spirits of their body: the ultimate Jean Brouaut’s goal in Traité de l’Eau de Vie. When a subtle alcoholic medicine reaches Spiritus Vini Lulliani.

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    • The State of the Art
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    • Index of the Names
    • Articles
    • Lexicon
  • Anatomy of an Alchemical Machine
  • The Sound Sacrifice
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