INDEX
Project Gutenberg EPUB3 edition
Muir, M. M. Pattison (Matthew Moncrieff Pattison)
Air, ancient views regarding, 129.
—— views of Mayow and Rey regarding, 129.
Alchemical account of changes contrasted with chemical account, 169.
—— agent, the, 64.
—— allegories, examples of, 41, 97.
—— classification, 59.
—— doctrine of body, soul, and spirit of things, 48.
—— doctrine of transmutation, 47, 74, 123, 170.
—— language, 36, 96, 101, 102.
—— quest of the One Thing, modern form of, 179.
—— signs, 105.
—— theory, general sketch of, 26.
Alchemists, character of, according to Paracelsus, 25.
—— made many discoveries, 87.
—— sketches of lives of some, 115.
—— their use of fanciful analogies, 31.
Alchemy, beginnings of, 23.
—— change of, to chemistry, 126.
—— contrasted with chemistry, 202.
—— general remarks on, 123.
—— lent itself to imposture, 106.
—— object of, 9, 26, 32, 105.
—— probable origin of word, 25.
—— quotations to illustrate aims and methods of, 11-14.
Alembic, 92.
Apparatus and operations of alchemists, 90.
Art, the sacred, 122.
Atom, meaning given to word by Dalton, 173.
Atomic theory of Greeks, 16.
—— additions made to, by Dalton, 21.
—— as described by Lucretius, 19.
Atomic weight, 174.
Atoms and electrons, 190, 198.
Bacon's remarks on alchemy, 95.
Balsamo, Joseph, 110.
Basil Valentine, his description of the three principles, 51.
—— his description of the four elements, 49.
—— some of his discoveries, 88.
Becquerel, his discovery of radiation of uranium, 181.
Body, soul, and spirit of things, alchemical doctrine of, 48.