ALCHEMY: ANCIENT AND MODERN. Being a brief account of the alchemistic doctrines, and their relations, to mysticism on the one hand, and to recent discoveries in physical science on the other hand; together with some particulars regarding the lives and teachings of the most noted alchemists.

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PLATE 1. Portrait of Paracelsus . . . . . . .Frontispiece
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PLATE 2. Symbolical Illustration representing the Trinity of
Body, Soul and Spirit . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15
PLATE 3. Symbolical Illustrations representing—
(A) The Fertility of the Earth
(B) The Amalgamation of Mercury and Gold. . . . . . . 26
PLATE 4. Symbolical Illustrations representing—
(A) The Coction of Gold-Amalgam in a Closed Vessel
(B) The Transmutation of the Metals . . . . . . . . . 33
PLATE 5. Alchemistic Apparatus—
(A) (B) Two forms of apparatus for sublimation. . . . 37
PLATE 6. Alchemistic Apparatus—
(A) An Athanor
(B) A Pelican . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 38
PLATE 7. Portrait of Albertus Magnus. . . . . . 44
PLATE 8. Portraits of—
(A) Thomas Aquinas
(B) Nicolas Flamel. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 52
PLATE 9. Portraits of—
(A) Edward Kelley
(B) John Dee. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 68
PLATE 10. Portrait of Michael Maier . . . . . . 72
PLATE 11. Portrait of Jacob Boehme. . . . . . . 74
PLATE 12. Portraits of J. B. and
F. M. van Helmont . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 76

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PLATE 13. Portrait of J. F. Helvetius . . . . . 84
PLATE 14. Portrait of "Cagliostro". . . . . . . 92
PLATE 15. Portrait of Robert Boyle. . . . . . . 94
PLATE 16. Portrait of John Dalton . . . . . . . 100
TABLE SHOWING THE PERIODIC CLASSIFICATION OF THE CHEMICAL
ELEMENTS. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Pages 106, 107

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