Remarks upon Alchemy and th Alchemists: Indicating a Method of Discovering the True Nature of Hermtic Philosophy

by Ethan Allen Hitchcock

Excerpt from Remarks Upon Alchemy and the Alchemists, Indicating a Method of Discovering the True Nature of Hermetic And Showing That the Search After the Philosopher's Stone Had Not for Its Object the Discovery of an Agent for the Transmutation of Metals

The writings of the Alchemists are all symbol ical, and under the words gold, silver, lead, salt, sulphur, mercury, antimony, arsenic, orpiment, sol.

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307 pages, Hardcover

First published July 6, 2015

About the author

Ethan Allen Hitchcock (May 18, 1798 – August 5, 1870) was a career United States Army officer and author who had War Department assignments in Washington, D.C., during the American Civil War, in which he served as a major general.