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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
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    • Index of the Names
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    • An Intriguing Case
    • Turba Philosophorum’s Ambition
    • Opus Magnum Scheme
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  • Anatomy of an Alchemical Machine
  • The Sound Sacrifice
  • Introductory Notes to the Boards of Pure Force

Hollandus Johannes Isaac

Hollandus, How Urine Salts Extract a White and Red Dye

by Iulia Millesima

How a volatile urine salt can extract our White and Red Dye from minerals. By a not-perfect alchemist often mistrusted because of his candor: J. I. Hollandus.

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Hollandus, De Lapide Philosophico. First Book 3-4

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Instead of distillations on liquids and oils extracted from plants, in chap three, Johannes Isaac Hollandus has salts ground, dissolved in distilled vinegar, then raised with subtle combustible spirits,

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Hollandus, De Lapide Philosophico. First Book 2

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Chapter Two of Opera Mineralia, sive de Lapide Philosophico, by Johannes Isaac Hollandus, deals with actions involving silver cupeling.

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Hollandus, De Lapide Philosophico. First Book 1

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Johannes Isaac Hollandus De Lapide Philosophico comprises two treatises, but only a summary of the second one is usually available online.

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Universal Sal Armoniacum & Hollandus Sal Armeniacum

by Iulia Millesima

Johannes Isaac Hollandus, in his neglected Opera Vegetabilia, gives a real clue as far as is concerned Sal Armoniacum or Universal Solvent or Mercurius.

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

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