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Index
Académie Royale des Sciences 224,
309
active principles 206 -9
Actua Eruditorum 329, 334
Agrippa, Cornelius 119 -20
Vanity and Nothingness of Human
Knowledge 120
Alari, Abbé 296
Albertus Magnus 36, 112 -13
alchemy
active principles 206 -9
anti-alchemy law 114 -15, 123
Arabic 110, 119
benefits of 123, 124, 130, 133
capital offence 87
Chinese 110
in England 114 -16
elixir vitae 108, 110, 113, 117
experimental methods 123 -5
and four elements 109 -10
futility of 110 -11
Hellenic 108, 109
hermetic tradition 109, 111, 119,
121, 206
literature 108, 111 -12, 113, 114,
115, 117, 119, 120, 121, 122,
124, 125 -6, 137, 138, 144,
146
London alchemists 137 -40
mad alchemists 124 n
medicine, application to 120
mercury, importance of 141 -4
modern 109 n
and modern physics 129 - 30
multiplication 250
philosophers' stone 104 -5, 110,
113, 117 -18, 123 -5, 144 -5
psychology of 127 -8, 142
in the Renaissance 111 -14
and the Rosicrucians 116 -19
science vs. magic 112 -13, 114
seventeenth century 120 -21, 123
spiritual aspects 126 -7, 128 -9
Star Regulus of Antimony 144 -6, 161, 162
transmutation of dements 87,
109 -10, 125, 142
vs. chemistry 23 n, 123, 128,
132 -3
Alexander the Great 30, 33
Alexandria, Library of 33 -4, 108,
110
algebra 66, 67
equations, solving 74 -5
and graphical representations 88
Alphonso X, king of Spain 71
analytical geometry 78 -9
Anaximander 68
Angell, John 20
Annals of Cambridge 84 -5
Anne, queen of England 282, 283,
296, 319, 322
anthropocentrism 70
antimony 144 -6
apple story 85, 86 -7, 279
Aquinas, St Thomas 36, 112
Arabs
alchemy 110, 119
interest in science 34
mathematics 66, 69, 72

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