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CHAPTER I. THE MEANING OF ALCHEMY

§ 1. The Aim of Alchemy

§ 2. The Transcendental Theory of Alchemy

§ 3. Failure of the Transcendental Theory

§ 4. The Qualifications of the Adept

§ 5. Alchemistic Language

§ 6. Alchemists of a Mystical Type

§ 7. The Meaning of Alchemy

§ 8. Opinions of other Writers

§ 9. The Basic Idea of Alchemy

§ 10. The Law of Analogy

§ 11. The Dual Nature of Alchemy

§ 12. “Body, Soul and Spirit”

§ 13. Alchemy, Mysticism and Modern Science

CHAPTER II. THE THEORY OF PHYSICAL ALCHEMY

§ 14. Supposed Proofs of Transmutation

§ 15. The Alchemistic Elements

§ 16. Aristotle’s Views regarding the Elements

§ 17. The Sulphur-Mercury Theory

§ 18. The Sulphur-Mercury-Salt Theory

§ 19. Alchemistic Elements and Principles

§ 20. The Growth of the Metals

§ 21. Alchemy and Astrology

§ 22. Alchemistic View of the Nature of Gold

§ 23. The Philosopher’s Stone

§ 24. The Nature of the Philosopher’s Stone

§ 25. The Theory of Development

§ 26. The Powers of the Philosopher’s Stone

§ 27. The Elixir of Life

§ 28. The Practical Methods of the Alchemists

CHAPTER III. THE ALCHEMISTS (A. BEFORE PARACELSUS)

§ 29. Hermes Trismegistos

§ 30. The Smaragdine Table

§ 31. Zosimus of Panopolis

§ 32. Geber

§ 33. Other Arabian Alchemists

§ 34. Albertus Magnus

§ 35. Thomas Aquinas

§ 36. Roger Bacon

§ 37. Arnold de Villanova

§ 38. Raymond Lully

§ 39. Peter Bonus

§ 40. Nicolas Flamel

§ 41. “Basil Valentine” and the Triumphal Chariot of Antimony

§ 42. Isaac of Holland

§ 43. Bernard Trévisan

§ 44. Sir George Ripley

§ 45. Thomas Norton

CHAPTER IV. THE ALCHEMISTS (B. PARACELSUS AND AFTER)

§ 46. Paracelsus

§ 47. Views of Paracelsus

§ 48. Iatro-chemistry

§ 49. The Rosicrucian Society

§ 50. Thomas Charnock

§ 51. Andreas Libavius

§ 52. Edward Kelley and John Dee

§ 53. Henry Khunrath

§ 54. Alexander Sethon and Michael Sendivogius

§ 55. Michael Maier

§ 56. Jacob Boehme

§ 57. J. B. van Helmont and F. M. van Helmont

§ 58. Johann Rudolf Glauber

§ 59. Thomas Vaughan (“Eugenius Philalethes”)

§ 60. “Eirenæus Philalethes” and George Starkey

CHAPTER V. THE OUTCOME OF ALCHEMY

§ 61. Did the Alchemists achieve the Magnum Opus?

§ 62. The Testimony of van Helmont

§ 63. The Testimony of Helvetius

§ 64. Helvetius obtains the Philosopher’s Stone

§ 65. Helvetius performs a Transmutation

§ 66. Helvetius’s Gold Assayed

§ 67. Helvetius’s Gold Further Tested

§ 68. The Genesis of Chemistry

§ 69. The Degeneracy of Alchemy

§ 70. “Count Cagliostro”

CHAPTER VI. THE AGE OF MODERN CHEMISTRY

§ 71. The Birth of Modern Chemistry

§ 72. The Phlogiston Theory

§ 73. Boyle and the Definition of an Element

§ 74. The Stoichiometric Laws

§ 75. Dalton’s Atomic Theory

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

§ 77. Prout’s Hypothesis

§ 78. The “Periodic Law”

§ 79. The Corpuscular Theory of Matter

§ 80. Proof that the Electrons are not Matter

§ 81. The Electronic Theory of Matter

§ 82. The Etheric Theory of Matter

§ 83. Further Evidence of the Complexity of the Atoms

§ 84. Views of Wald and Ostwald

CHAPTER VII. MODERN ALCHEMY

§ 85. “Modem Alchemy”

§ 86. X-Rays and Becquerel Rays

§ 87. The Discovery of Radium

§ 88. Chemical Properties of Radium

§ 89. The Radioactivity of Radium

§ 90. The Disintegration of the Radium Atom

§ 91. “Induced Radioactivity”

§ 92. Properties of Uranium and Thorium

§ 93. The Radium Emanation

§ 94. The Production of Helium from Emanation

§ 95. Nature of this Change

§ 96. Is this Change a true Transmutation?

§ 97. The Production of Neon from Emanation

§ 98. Ramsay’s Experiments on Copper

§ 99. Further Experiments on Radium and Copper

§ 100. Ramsay’s Experiments on Thorium and allied Metals

§ 101. The Possibility of Making Gold

§ 102. The Significance of “Allotropy”

§ 103. Conclusion

PORTRAIT OF PARACELSUS