History of Indian Medical Literature | The theory on which Jabir supports his operations is one of clearness and of an impressive unity |
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Since then alchemy has confronted natural philosophy for several centuries | in: Studia graeco-arabica, 6, pp |
In vain one would seek in the Greek texts a work as systematic as that which is presented for example in the Book of Seventy.
3More than with the other Arab authors, one notes with him a balance between theoretical teaching and practical teaching, between the and the | University of Chicago Press, 2012, pp |
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In the Western world alchemy presented itself at its advent as a sacred art | Rutherford bombarded nitrogen with energetic alpha particles that were moving fast enough to overcome the electric repulsion between themselves and the target nuclei |
Alchemy is the quest for an agent of material perfection, produced through a creative activity opus , in which humans and nature collaborate.
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