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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 Primitive Music
  • Boschius’s Ars Symbolica

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Fioravanti & Metals Calcination

by Iulia Millesima

In Capricci Medicinali, Leonardo Fioravanti shows how iatrochemistry and Alchemy share some proceedings. Here he presents metal calcination methods.

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Hollandus, De Lapide Philosophico. First Book 2

by Iulia Millesima

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

by Iulia Millesima

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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  • 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 Primitive Music
  • Boschius’s Ars Symbolica

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