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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
    • 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
  • Boschius’s Ars Symbolica

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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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Augurello and the Art of Making Gold. Third Book 1

by Iulia Millesima

In Augurello’s last part, the origin and making of the powder come innately along with natural processes. So the alchemical glass birth is not unlike pearls.

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Augurello and the Art of Making Gold. Second Book 2

by Iulia Millesima

Augurello, in the Crysopoeia second bookend, introduces the concept of a saffron powder able to transmute every metal giving it the color of a star.

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Augurello and the Art of Making Gold. Second Book 1

by Iulia Millesima

Those stating Augurello denies chemical operative systems to make gold have just run over his Crysopoeia. Let’s have a thorough examination of his words.

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  • 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
  • Boschius’s Ars Symbolica

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