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Alchemy: Ancient and Modern Being a Brief Account of the Alchemistic Doctrines, and Their Relations, to Mysticism on the One Hand, and ...
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Table of Contents
- ALCHEMY: ANCIENT AND MODERN
- PREFACE TO THE SECOND EDITION
- PREFACE
- CONTENTS
- LIST OF PLATES
- CHAPTER I THE MEANING OF ALCHEMY
- The Aim of Alchemy.
- The Transcendental Theory of Alchemy.
- Failure of the Transcendental Theory.
- The Qualifications of the Adept.
- Alchemistic Language.
- Alchemists of a Mystical Type.
- The Meaning of Alchemy.
- Opinions of other Writers.
- The Basic Idea of Alchemy.
- The Law of Analogy.
- The Dual Nature of Alchemy.
- “Body, Soul and Spirit.”
- Alchemy, Mysticism and Modern Science.
- CHAPTER II THE THEORY OF PHYSICAL ALCHEMY
- Supposed Proofs of Transmutation.
- The Alchemistic Elements.
- Aristotle’s Views regarding the Elements.
- The Sulphur-Mercury Theory.
- The Sulphur-Mercury-Salt Theory.
- Alchemistic Elements and Principles.
- The Growth of the Metals.
- Alchemy and Astrology.
- Alchemistic View of the Nature of Gold.
- The Philosopher’s Stone.
- The Nature of the Philosopher’s Stone.
- The Theory of Development.
- The Powers of the Philosopher’s Stone.
- The Elixir of Life.
- The Practical Methods of the Alchemists.
- CHAPTER III THE ALCHEMISTS[41] (A. BEFORE PARACELSUS)
- Hermes Trismegistos.
- The Smaragdine Table.
- Zosimus of Panopolis.
- Geber.
- Other Arabian Alchemists.
- Albertus Magnus (1193-1280).
- Thomas Aquinas (1225-1274).
- Roger Bacon (1214-1294).
- Arnold de Villanova (12—?-1310?).
- Raymond Lully (1235?-1315).
- Peter Bonus (14th Century).
- Nicolas Flamel (1330-1418).
- “Basil Valentine” and “The Triumphal Chariot of Antimony.”
- Isaac of Holland (15th Century).
- Bernard Trévisan (1406-1490).
- Sir George Ripley (14—?-1490?).
- Thomas Norton (15th Century).
- CHAPTER IV THE ALCHEMISTS (continued) (B. PARACELSUS AND AFTER)
- Paracelsus (1493-1541.)
- Views of Paracelsus.
- Iatro-Chemistry.
- The Rosicrucian Society.
- Thomas Charnock (1524-1581).
- Andreas Libavius (1540-1616.)
- Edward Kelley (1555-1595) and John Dee (1527-1608.)
- Henry Khunrath (1560-1605).
- Alexander Sethon (?-1604) and Michael Sendivogius (1566?-1646).
- Michael Maier (1568-1622).
- Jacob Boehme (1575-1624.)
- J. B. van Helmont (1577-1644) and F. M. van Helmont (1618-1699.)
- Johann Rudolf Glauber (1604-1668).
- Thomas Vaughan (“Eugenius Philalethes”) (1622-1666.)
- “Eirenæus Philalethes” (1623?-?) and George Starkey (?-1665).
- CHAPTER V THE OUTCOME OF ALCHEMY
- Did the Alchemists achieve the “Magnum Opus”?
- The Testimony of van Helmont.
- The Testimony of Helvetius.
- Helvetius obtains the Philosopher’s Stone.
- Helvetius performs a Transmutation.
- Helvetius’s Gold Assayed.
- Helvetius’s Gold Further Tested.
- The Genesis of Chemistry.
- The Degeneracy of Alchemy.
- “Count Cagliostro” (—?-1795).
- CHAPTER VI THE AGE OF MODERN CHEMISTRY
- The Birth of Modern Chemistry.
- The Phlogiston Theory.
- Boyle and the Definition of an Element.
- The Stoichiometric Laws.
- Dalton’s Atomic Theory.
- The Determination of the Atomic Weights of the Elements.
- Prout’s Hypothesis.
- The “Periodic Law.”
- The Corpuscular Theory of Matter.
- Proof that the Electrons are not Matter.
- The Electronic Theory of Matter.
- The Etheric Theory of Matter.
- Further Evidence of the Complexity of the Atoms.
- Views of Wald and Ostwald.
- CHAPTER VII MODERN ALCHEMY
- “Modern Alchemy.”
- X-rays and Becquerel rays.
- The Discovery of Radium.
- Chemical Properties of Radium.
- The Radioactivity of Radium.
- The Disintegration of the Radium Atom.
- “Induced Radioactivity.”
- Properties of Uranium and Thorium.
- The Radium Emanation.
- The Production of Helium from Radium.
- Nature of this Change.
- Is this Change a true Transmutation?
- The Production of Neon from Emanation.
- Ramsay’s Experiments on Copper.
- Further Experiments on Radium and Copper.
- Ramsay’s Experiments on Thorium and allied Metals.
- The Possibility of Making Gold.
- The Significance of “Allotropy.”
- Conclusion.
- Transcriber’s Notes
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