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Alchemy is an influential philosophical tradition whose practitioners have, from antiquity, claimed it to be the precursor to profound powers. The defining objectives of alchemy are varied but historically have typically included one or more of the following goals: the creation of the fabled philosopher`s stone; the ability to transmute base meta....
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[event] Alchemy is a burn event operated according to the 10 Principles of Burning Man held annually in the early fall. Alchemy was first held in 2007 and grew quickly to become the largest regional burn in the United States and second largest in the world in 2012. In 2013, the event cap was lowered by approximately 1,000. However the 2014 ...
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[game] Alchemy is a computer puzzle game from PopCap Games. This title can be played for free online at various websites minus some components, or a full version can be downloaded and unlocked for a fee. On mobile devices, the game can only be played if downloaded for a fee. ==Release== Alchemy was first introduced on August 29, 2001. The o...
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[microarchitecture] The Alchemy (microarchitecture) is a low power microprocessor design developed by Alchemy Semiconductor implementing the MIPS32 instruction set by MIPS Technologies. The first and only processor implementing it is the Au1 Central processing unit. == Au1-based SoCs == Products include: AMD Alchemy Au1000 and Au1550, Sun R...
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• (n.) An imaginary art which aimed to transmute the baser metals into gold, to find the panacea, or universal remedy for diseases, etc. It led the way to modern chemistry. • (n.) A mixed metal composed mainly of brass, formerly used for various utensils; hence, a trumpet. • (n.) Miraculous power of transmuting something common into ...
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a form of speculative thought that, among other aims, tried to transform base metals such as lead or copper into silver or gold and to discover a ... [12 related articles]
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Several of the great Greek philosophers considered all matter to be composed of four basic elements, fire, air, earth and water, and that all materials were had these components mixed in different proportions. If this theory was true, then it was believ
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Alchemy refers to both an early protoscientific and an early philosophical discipline, both combining elements of chemistry, metallurgy, physics, medicine, astrology, semiotics, mysticism, spiritualism, and art. Alchemy has been practiced in Ancient Egypt, Persia, India, and China, in Classical Greece and Rome, in the Islamic empire, and then in Eu...
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Alchemist's Laboratory, painted by Hans Vredman de Vries A primitive form of chemistry practiced in western Europe from early Christian times until the 17th century. Alchemy is to modern chemistry what astrology is to astronomy, or legend to history. In the eye of the astrologer, a knowledge of...
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1. <study> An imaginary art which aimed to transmute the baser metals into gold, to find the panacea, or universal remedy for diseases, etc. It led the way to modern chemistry. ... 2. A mixed metal composed mainly of brass, formerly used for various utensils; hence, a trumpet. 'Put to their mouths the sounding alchemy.' (Milton) ... 3. Miracu...
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The medieval and Renaissance precursor to modern chemistry, characterized by mystical philosophy and
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A branch of High Magick developed in the Middle Ages which sought to magickally and/or chemically turn base metals into gold.
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Several of the great Greek philosophers considered all matter to be composed of four basic 'elements', fire, air, earth and water, and that all materials were had these components mixed in different proportions. If this theory was true, then it was believed that all substances could be converted (transmuted) into each other by varying the proportions of the mixture. This tansmutation theory was the basis of Alchemy from approx. 300 B.C. to 1500 A.D., after which it slowly gave way to the more scientific concepts of chemistry from the 17th century onwards. The alchemists represented their 'element' by a variety of symbols (see below), some of which were based on astrological signs
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Al'che·my noun [ Old French
alkemie ,
arquemie , French
alchimie , Arabic
al-kīmīa , from late Greek ..., for ..., a mingling, infusion, ... juice, liquid, especially as extracted from plants, from ... to pour; for chemistry was originally the art of extracting...
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Alchemy or alchymy is the art which in former times occupied the place of and paved the way for the modern science of chemistry (as astrology did for astronomy), but whose aims were not scientific, being confined solely to the discovery of the means of indefinitely prolonging human life, and of transmuting the baser metals into gold and silver.
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Alchemy was the medieval forerunner to chemistry. It was the supposed technique of transmuting base metals, such as lead and mercury, into silver and gold by the philosopher's stone, a hypothetical substance, to which was also attributed the power to give eternal life. This aspect of alchemy constituted much of the chemistry of the Middle Ages. Mor...
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alchemy The chemistry of the Middle Ages and 16th century; now applied distinctively to the pursuit of the transmutation of baser metals into gold, which (with the search for the alkahest, or universal solvent; and the panacea, or universal remedy) constituted the chief practical object of early chemistry. Via Old French alquemie and medieval Latin...
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noun a pseudoscientific forerunner of chemistry in medieval times
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Supposed technique of transmuting base metals, such as lead and mercury, into silver and gold by the philosopher's stone, a hypothetical substance, to which was also attributed the power to give eternal life. This aspect of alchemy constituted much of the chemistry of the Middle Ages. More broadly, however, alchemy was a system of philosophy th...
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a form of chemistry and speculative philosophy practiced in the Middle Ages and the Renaissance and concerned principally with discovering methods for transmuting baser metals into gold and with finding a universal solvent and an elixir of life. · any magical power or process of transmuting a common substance, usually of little value, into ...
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