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  • ADEPTShttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ADEPTS

    ADEPTS, Adepts, is a denomination given to proficient individuals in Alchemy, particularly those who claim to possess the secrets of the Philosopher's Stone and the Universal Medicine.See ALCHEMY, PHILOSOPHER'S STONE, TRANSMUTATION, ELIXIR, etc.Ripley,...

    • Type: Article
    • Author: Ephraïm Chambers
    • Category: Unclassified
  • AUTUMNhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/AUTUMN

    of the year, that"Dat Clemens hyemem, dat Petrus ver cathedratus;Aestuat Urbanus, autumnat Bartholomaeus."Autumn, in alchemy, the time or season when the operation of the philosopher’s stone is brought to maturity and perfection. See ALCHEMY and...

    • Type: Article
    • Author: Ephraïm Chambers
    • Category: Unclassified
  • ATHANORhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ATHANOR

    in Alchemy, a large immovable Furnace, built of Brick or Stone, and covered with a tower-top; proper to maintain a temperate and equable degree of heat for a considerable time. See FURNACE, HEAT, etc. The Heat of the Athanor is intended or remitted by...

    • Type: Article
    • Author: Ephraïm Chambers
    • Category: Unclassified
  • ARGYROPÆAhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ARGYROPÆA

    Alchemy, the Art of making Silver. See ALCHEMY and SILVER. The Scope or Design of Argyropæa and Chrysopæia, is to make Gold and Silver. See CHRYSOPÆIA, TRANSMUTATION, PHILOSOPHER'S STONE, etc. The Word is formed of ἄργυρος, Silver, and ποιέω, I make....

    • Type: Article
    • Author: Ephraïm Chambers
    • Category: Unclassified
  • ALhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/AL

    an Arabic Particle, prefixed to Words to exalt or give them a more emphatical Signification.—As, in Alchemy, Algebra, &c. AL

    • Type: Article
    • Author: Ephraïm Chambers
    • Category: Unclassified
  • ALCHYMYhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ALCHYMY

    or Alchemy, a higher or more refined kind of Chemistry, employed in the more mysterious Researches of the Art. See CHEMISTRY. The Word is compounded of the Arabic Particle of Augmentation, Al, and the Latin Chymia, Egyptian Kenia, or Greek χυμεία,...

    • Type: Article
    • Author: Ephraïm Chambers
    • Category: Unclassified
  • ALKACHESThttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/chymistry/ALKACHEST

    was so fond of it, that he frankly acknowledges he had rather have been Master thereof than of the Philosopher’s Stone. See ALCHEMY. Indeed, ’tis not difficult to conceive, that all Bodies might originally arise from some first Matter, which was once in...

    • Type: Article
    • Author: Ephraïm Chambers
    • Category: Chymistry
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