Main entry:

Doberer, Kurt Karl, 1904-1993.

Title & Author:

The goldmakers : 10,000 years of alchemy / Kurt Karl Doberer, translated by E.W. Dickes.

Publication:

London, Nicholson & Watson [1948]

Description:

301 pages illustrations, portraits 23 cm

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 295-301).
Gold: the flesh of the gods -- The golden calf -- Green tables of emerald -- Miriam, the woman alchemist -- Stagiritic art -- Zosimos the Wise and the foolish virgin -- Olympiodorus and the gold tribute -- Stephanus and the soul of copper -- Yabir and the Caliph of Bagdad -- The writings of the Faithful Brethren -- Albertus Magnus [Albert the Great] and the eight rules -- Alchemy and gunpowder -- Raimund Lullus [Raymond Lull] sets out to transmute the sea -- Pope John [XXII] and the elixir -- Nichols Flamel and the alchinistic pictorial language -- William de Brumley and cadmium-gold -- Jaques le Cor: Minister of Finance and alchemist -- Philosopher's stone from two thousand hen's eggs -- The lady of Lamspringk -- The golden fleece of Salomon Trismosin -- Agrippa von Nettesheim teaches occult alchemy -- Abbot Johanes Trithemus and the mountain of Wu-Ta-Wen -- Aureolus Bombastus Paracelsus: seeker of the quintessence -- Basil Valentine and the name-star of antimony -- Emperor Maximilian and the hundred years' experiment -- The tramsmuting powder usufur and the black root resch -- Report of the Carmelite monk [actually, friar] Albertus Bayr -- Abbot Dunstan makes the red tincture -- Edward Kelley, English writer and Bohemian knight -- Sebald Schwertzer and the gold factory -- Alexander Setonius Scotus, prophet of the great art -- Michael Sendivogius the faithful -- The man on the golden gallows.
The Order of the Golden Rosy Cross -- The wonderful salt of Johann Glauber -- Elias, preacher of the great art -- Robert Boyle and the anti-elixir -- Francesco Borri, the goldmaker of Sant'Angelo -- With Wenzel Seiler's powder he, from tin to gold transmuted me -- Costings for a gold factory -- Doctor Johann Joachim Becher makers gold out of Danube sand -- Johann Kunckel, the man who devised everything better -- Hennig Brand asks, Does the philosopher's stone shine? -- Van Helmont's philsopher's stone: glittering, heavy and saffron-coloured -- Johann Friedrich Böttger made gold and porcelain -- Johann Konrad Dippel and the three-coloured trimetal -- Too many cooks spoil the broth for the Elector Philipp of Treves -- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, alchemist and Rosicrucian -- Carl Friedrich Wenzel decomposes metals -- For Count Cagliostro goldmaking was just a hobby -- Doctor James Price makes first gold and then prussic acid -- The philosopher's stone in coal -- From the secret of green gold to the self-transmutation of radium -- Edward Pinter makes gold behind a "stink-screen" -- Doctor Stephen Emmens forces argentaurum to change into gold -- Rays build gold while forming and splitting atoms -- Franz Tausend formulates the symphonic synthesis of gold -- Oscillated gold out of the bottle: cheap or dear -- Dunikovski's Z-rays transmute and multiply gold -- Brief postscript.

Subject:

Alchemy History.
Alchemy history.
Alchimie Histoire.
Alchemy
Alchemie
Geschichte

Form/genre:

History

Added entries:

Dickes, E. W. (Ernest Walter), 1876- translator.

Holdings:

Location: Library photo collection 277339
Call No.: PHCON2002:0016:093:004
Status: Available