Alchemy: Ancient and Modern

Redgrove, Herbert Stanley, 1887-1943 . Alchemy: Ancient and Modern
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Chapter 1 <hi rend="bold">ALCHEMY: ANCIENT AND MODERN</hi> CHAPTER I THE MEANING OF ALCHEMY

Section 1 § 1. The Aim of Alchemy.

Section 2 § 2. The Transcendental Theory of Alchemy.

Section 3 § 3. Failure of the Transcendental Theory.

Section 4 § 4. The Qualifications of the Adept.

Section 5 § 5. Alchemistic Language.

Section 6 § 6. Alchemists of a Mystical Type.

Section 7 § 7. The Meaning of Alchemy.

Section 8 § 8. Opinions of other Writers.

Section 9 § 9. The Basic Idea of Alchemy.

Section 10 § 10. The Law of Analogy.

Section 11 § 11. The Dual Nature of Alchemy.

Section 12 § 12. "Body, Soul and Spirit".

Section 13 § 13. Alchemy, Mysticism and Modern Science.

Chapter 2 CHAPTER II THE THEORY OF PHYSICAL ALCHEMY

Section 14 § 14. Supposed Proofs of Transmutation.

Section 15 § 15. The Alchemistic Elements.

Section 16 § 16. Aristotle's Views regarding the Elements.

Section 17 § 17. The Sulphur-Mercury Theory.

Section 18 § 18. The Sulphur-Mercury-Salt Theory.

Section 19 § 19. Alchemistic Elements and Principles.

Section 20 § 20. The Growth of the Metals.

Section 21 § 21. Alchemy and Astrology.

Section 22 § 22. Alchemistic View of the Nature of Gold.

Section 23 § 23. The Philosopher's Stone.

Section 24 § 24. The Nature of the Philosopher's Stone.

Section 25 §25. The Theory of Development.

Section 26 § 26. The Powers of the Philosopher's Stone.

Section 27 § 27. The Elixir of Life.

Section 28 § 28. The Practical Methods of the Alchemists.

Chapter 3 CHAPTER III THE ALCHEMISTS1 (A. BEFORE PARACELSUS)

Section 29 § 29. Hermes Tismegistos.

Section 30 § 30. The Smaragdine Table.

Section 31 § 31. Zosimus of Panopolis.

Section 32 § 32. Geber.

Section 33 § 33. Other Arabian Alchemists.

Section 34 § 34. Albertus Magnus.

Section 35 § 35. Thomas Aquinas.

Section 36 § 36. Roger Bacon.

Section 37 § 37. Arnold de Villanova.

Section 38 § 38. Raymond Lully.

Section 39 § 39. Peter Bonus.

Section 40 § 40. Nicolas Flamel.

Section 41 § 41. "Basil Valentine" and "The Triumphal Chariot of Antimony".

Section 42 § 42. Isaac of Holland.

Section 43 § 43. Bernard Trévisan.

Section 44 § 44. Sir George Ripley.

Section 45 § 45. Thomas Norton.

Chapter 4 CHAPTER IV THE ALCHEMISTS (continued) (B. PARACELSUS AND AFTER)

Section 46 § 46. Paracelsus.

Section 47 § 47. Views of Paracelsus.

Section 48 § 48. Iatro-Chemistry.

Section 49 § 49. The Rosicrucian Society.

Section 50 § 50. Thomas Charnock.

Section 51 § 51. Andreas Libavius.

Section 52 § 52. Edward Kelley and John Dee.

Section 53 § 53. Henry Khunrath.

Section 54 § 54. Alexander Sethon and Michael Sendivogius.

Section 55 § 55. Michael Maier.

Section 56 § 56. Jacob Boehme.

Section 57 § 57. John Baptist van Helmont.

Section 58 § 58. Johann Rudolf Glauber.

Section 59 § 59. Thomas Vaughan (Eugenius Philalethes).

Chapter 5 CHAPTER V THE OUTCOME OF ALCHEMY

Section 61 § 61. Did the Alchemists achieve the "Magnum Opus"?.

Section 62 § 62. The Testimony of van Helmont.

Section 63 § 63. The Testimony of Helvetius.

Section 64 § 64. Helvetius obtains the Philosopher's Stone.

Section 65 § 65. Helvetius performs a Transmutation.

Section 66 § 66. Helvetius's Gold Assayed.

Section 67 § 67. Helvetius's Gold Further Tested.

Section 68 § 68. The Genesis of Chemistry.

Section 69 § 69. The Degeneracy of Alchemy.

Section 70 § 70. "Count Cagliostro".

Chapter 6 CHAPTER VI THE AGE OF MODERN CHEMISTRY

Section 71 § 71. The Birth of Modern Chemistry.

Section 72 § 72. The Phlogiston Theory.

Section 73 § 73. Boyle and the Definition of an Element.

Section 74 § 74. The Stoichiometric Laws.

Section 75 § 75. Dalton's Atomic Theory.

Section 76 § 76. The Determination of the Atomic Weights of the Elements.

Section 77 § 77. Prout's Hypothesis.

Section 78 § 78. The "Periodic Law".

Section 79 § 79. The Corpuscular Theory of Matter.

Section 80 § 80. Proof that the Electrons are not Matter.

Section 81 § 81. The Electronic Theory of Matter.

Section 82 § 82. The Etheric Theory of Matter.

Section 83 § 83. Further Evidence of the Complexity of the Atoms.

Section 84 § 84. Views of Wald and Ostwald.

Chapter 7 CHAPTER VII MODERN ALCHEMY

Section 85 § 85. "Modern Alchemy".

Section 86 § 86. X-Ray's and Becquerel rays.

Section 87 § 87. The Discovery of Radium.

Section 88 § 88. Chemical Properties of Radium.

Section 89 § 89. The Radioactivity of Radium.

Section 90 § 90. The Disintegration of the Radium Atom.

Section 91 § 91. Induced Radioactivity.

Section 92 § 92. Properties of Uranium and Thorium.

Section 93 § 93. The Radium Emanation.

Section 94 § 94. The Production of Helium from Radium.

Section 95 § 95. Nature of this Change.

Section 96 § 96. Is this Change a true Transmutation?

Section 97 § 97. The Production of Neon from Emanation.

Section 98 § 98. Ramsay's Experiments on Copper.

Section 99 § 99. Further Experiments on Radium and Copper.

Section 100 § 100. Ramsay's Experiments on Thorium and allied Metals.

Section 101 § 101. The Possibility of Making Gold

Section 102 § 102. The Significance of "Allotropy."

Section 103 § 103. Conclusion.

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