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LabyrinthDesigners & the Art of Fire

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

  • 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

Mercury

Lancillotti, Operations on Mercury. Part 3

by Iulia Millesima

On the Sublimation of Mercury. Here Carlo Lancillotti knowingly borders on Alchemy. Farmaceutica Antimoniale Trionfo del Mercurio, third book.

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Lancillotti, Operations on Mercury. Part 2

by Iulia Millesima

In the second part of Trionfo del Mercurio, Carlo Lancillotti explains the other three purging systems and, with the last one, the living mercury proceeding. [Read more…] about Lancillotti, Operations on Mercury. Part 2

Lancillotti, Operations on Mercury. Part 1

by Iulia Millesima

Carlo Lancillotti starts his long speech on mercury from traditional sources and gives the first method to purify the metal.

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Testamentum Fraternitatis Roseae et Aureae Crucis. Part 4

by Iulia Millesima

Another interesting, though necessarily incomplete, tour into preliminary works with Mercury and Bismuth—a dive into a modus operandi not too far from reality.

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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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