Alchemists naming

Sometime around 1300 bce, an unknown alchemist described sulfuric acid. Not much is known about the early use of sulfur or sulfuric acid. In 1579 an alchemist named Andreas Libavius described the progress of alchemy. In his book he described how hydrochloric and sulfuric acids are produced and mentioned the formation of aqua regia, which is a mixture of acids that is strong enough to dissolve gold—the royal metal. 

A Swiss-German physician and alchemist named Philippus Aureoius Theophrastus Bombastus Von Hohenheim, better known as Paraceisus, wrote about the two sides of drug action in an eloquent and memorable way All substances are poisons there is none which is not a poison. The right dose differentiates a poison and a remedy. ... 

Atomic chlorine attacks noble metals forming their respective chlorides (which are soluble in water). Alchemists named this mixture aqua regia (the royal water) because of its ability to dissolve gold and platinum. 

Charnock was born in Kent, either in Faversham or the Isle of Thanet, probably in the year 1524. Charnock was a laboratory assistant to an alchemist named James Sauler, who passed on the secret to Charnock on his deathbed in 1554. However, Charnock suffered a major setback on NewYear s Day 1555, when a fire destroyed his laboratory. His fortunes revived when he was taught by one of Ripley s pupils, William Holloweye, the last prior of Bath Abbey before the dissolution of the monasteries. 

Silver nitrate, AgNOg, is a colorless, soluble salt made by dissolving silver in nitric acid. It is used to cauterize sores, and for this use it has the old name lunar caustic (from the alchemistic name Inna, the moon, for silver). Silver nitrate is easily reduced to metallic silver by organic matter, such as skin or cloth, and is for this reason used in making indelible ink. 

When these exercises are being done with a certain amount of perseverance, the particular practitioner should firstly experience a Warmth in his index finger, then perceive a sulphur odour, and also the taste of salt and quicksilver sublimate. With this, the three main principles of the Alchemists, namely Sal, Sulphur and Mercurius has been mentally "acquired" by the Illusionists Furthermore, when doing these exercises, the "Exercitand" has to concentrate internally upon the syllables Si, Sa, So, then upon the syllables Alam, Alamas, and Alamar. He then must hone his "Inner Sight" then before his spiritual eye appears a "Black Shadow," the so-called "Raven s Head" of the Alchemists or the "materia cruda" ... 

Not all alchemical theories were derived from ancient or medieval sources. Some grew out of conceptions of nature and evaluations of what constituted a primary or universal matter propounded much later, during the period of the Scientific Revolution. In this regard, some alchemists who adhered to the views of nature advanced by the sixteenth-century physician Paracelsus (1493/94— 1541), sought to prepare the Philosophers Stone from vitriol. Others, who traced their procedural lineage to an alchemist named Michael Sendivogius (1566-1636) expected to produce it from nitre. A third tradition extending well into the seventeenth century and... 

In fact, did you know that the cymbals used by more than 60% of the rock bands in the world were invented by an alchemist The story begins 377 years ago in Constantinople, when an alchemist named Avedis discovered an alloy that produced... 

They concocted all kinds of recipes for it. One of the most famous involved two thousand eggs and an Italian alchemist named Bernard Trevisan. In the fifteenth century, Trevisan embarked upon his alchemical quest by boiling the eggs, removing their shells, and separatii the whites from the yolks. He proceeded to putrefy the whites with horse manure, then he combined the mess with the eggshells. Next, he heated the concoction and distilled from it an oil, which he allowed to harden into the philosopher s stone. ... 

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