Helvetius, John Frederick

Helvetius, John Frederick, The Golden Calf Which the World Adores, Washington Holmes Publishing Group, 1986 Linden, Stanton J. (Ed), The Alchemy Reader From Hermes Trismegistus to Isaac Newton, Cambridge Cambridge University Press, 2003... 

An Open Entrance to the Closed Palace of the King /. .. Eirenzus Philalethes. VI. A Subtle Allegory Concerning the Secrets of Alchemy. . . / Michael Maier. Vii-Ix. The Three Treatises of Philalethes. X. John Frederick Helvetius Golden Calf... XI. The All-Wise Keeper... 

John Frederick Helvetius (see plate 13), an eminent doctor of medicine, and physician to the Prince of Orange, published at the Hague in 1667 the following remarkable account of a transmutation he claimed to have effected. Certain points of resemblance between this account and that of van Helmont (e.g., in each case the Stone is described as a glassy substance of a pale yellow colour) are worth noticing "On the 27 December,... 

Although the scientific method as we now know it was beginning to get a firm foothold on the European intelligentsia, this period also sees what is perhaps the most celebrated (after the Flamels), and certainly most detailed, account of a transmutation. It was published in 1667 by the great Swiss doctor John Frederick Helvetius, personal physician to the Prince of Orange, and one of the leading names in the medicine of the time. 

There is also the evidence of John Frederick Helvetius, as testified in 1666. He made claim to be an adept, but received the powder of transmutation from another. He writes ... 

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