Alchemy
1)Which elements does alchemy combine?
Alchemy combines elements of chemistry, physics, astrology, art, semiotics,
metallurgy, medicine, mysticism and religion.
2) 3 goals of alchemy
1.transmutation of any metal into gold or silver
2.creating universal panacea, remedy what would cure all diseases and prolong
life indefinetely. – philospher´s stone was the key in these goals
3. creating human life
3) Idea of making gold and silver. Where does it originate and / how to
Western Europe?
The idea of transmutation arose among the Alexandrian Greeks in the early
centuries of the Christian era, then it passed to Arabs and then from Arabs to
Western Europe. Since then realization was very important to all chemical
workers down to the time of Paracelus and even later.
4)narrow and wider meaning of alchemy