Alchemical Sentence Examples

As an outcome of this alchemical doctrine the process of fermentation was supposed to have a purifying and elevating effect on the bodies which had been submitted to its influence.

The history of the alchemical period is treated in more detail in the article Alchemy, and of the iatrochemical in the article Medicine.

From the Alexandrians the science passed to the Arabs, who made discoveries and improved various methods of separating substances, and afterwards, from the 11th century, became seated in Europe, where the alchemical doctrines were assiduously studied until the 15th and 16th centuries.

From the mazy and incoherent alchemical and iatrochemical doctrines, the former based on false conceptions of matter, the latter on erroneous views of life processes and physiology, a new science arose - the study of the composition of substances.

The great puzzle connected with the name Geber lies in the character of the writings attributed to him, their style and matter differentiating them strongly from those of even the best authors of the later alchemical period, and making it difficult to account for their existence at all.

Its emphasis on the ancient Egyptian roots of western alchemy will also interest those drawn to Jung's transpersonal psychology and alchemical studies.

Dürer's Melencolia is replete with alchemical symbolism related directly to much of the symbolism in the 1934 drawing.

Antimony and its compounds formed the subject of an elaborate treatise ascribed to this last writer, who also contributed to our knowledge of the compounds of zinc, bismuth and arsenic. All the commonly occurring elements and compounds appear to have received notice by the alchemists; but the writings assigned to the alchemical period are generally so vague and indefinite that it is difficult to determine the true value of the results obtained.

One is his devotion to alchemy, and how his being steeped in the alchemical lore influenced the rest of his work.

Dürer 's Melencolia is replete with alchemical symbolism related directly to much of the symbolism in the 1934 drawing.

Alchemical treatises frequently warned of the hazards of working with sulfurous exhalations and volatile chemicals.