Indian alchemists

Indian alchemists also made scientific discoveries, often well in advance of their European counterparts. The importance of the colour of the flame in the analysis of metals was known as early as the twelfth century certain metallurgical processes were described by Hindu alchemists three centuries before the work of Paracelsus, Agrippa and Agricola and the internal use of... 

Legendary Indian alchemist who may have also been a Buddhist... 

Some alchemists avoid working with mercury metal altogether because of the danger to themselves and those around them. The use of metallic mercury is well established in both Chinese and Indian alchemy as well. 

Elixir An alchemical term referring to a drug or method of extending life or gaining immortality. Many alchemists, particularly in the Indian and Chinese traditions, were more interested in the Elixir of Life than in the creation of gold from lead. 

Incidentally it may be mentioned that at about this time the Indian alchemists were also familiar with cupellation an early... 

The alchemical Philosophers Stone is the main subject of this book. It has many names including the Elixir of Life, occult gold, manna and dew. For thousands of years the knowledge of this marvelous Stone has been the sole province of mystical brotherhoods including Eg tian Priests and Pharaohs, Melchizedek Priests, Arabian Schools, Rabbis, Kabbalahists, Indian Yogis, Rosicrucians, Freemasons and lone Jewish alchemists. 

This was not the case outside of Europe By 1300 Chinese and Indian alchemists were actively engaged in iatrochemistry—the application of alchemy to medicine—but iatrochemistry did not fully evolve in Europe until 200 years later. Chinese and Indian alchemical writers also devoted much thought to the proper design of a laboratory, another concept that did not appear in European alchemical literature until about 1500. For example an Indian treatise of this period, the Rasaratnasamuchchaya, contains the following description ... 

Philip L. Cantelon, "Engineers and Alchemists Electricity from Nuclear Energy," draft of unpublished paper in progress, pp. 10-12 AEC Docket no. 50-3, Consolidated Edison Indian Point, AEC/NRC. 

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