Lead-to-gold pseudoscience

Usage examples of alchemy.

It has been proposed that these words refer to a sort of alchemy for farming, and that therefore agrichemicals are some especial sort of manure.

Besides the Cathars, the region was, and always has been, a centre of alchemy, and several villages attest to the alchemical preoccupations of its former residents, notably Alet-les-Bains near Limoux, where the houses are still decorated with esoteric symbolism.

Haeffner, Mark,The Dictionary of Alchemy , Aquarian Press, Wellingborough, 1991.

He learned sword-fighting and riding, swimming and diving, how to shoot with the bow and play on the recorder and the theorbo, how to hunt the stag and cut him up when he was dead, besides Cosmography, Rhetoric, Heraldry, Versification, and of course History, with a little Law, Physic, Alchemy, and Astronomy.

Then was created the jargon of alchemy, a continual deception for the vulgar herd, greedy of gold, and a living language for the true disciples of Hermes alone.

And so of course he must eulogize alchemy, astrology, primitive participation, etc.

There was a suspicion that this Fid had poisoned Yang, for his talent related to alchemy, and he could make potions do sinister things.

The three schools lay in a narrow band along the line, piled high over its power, and beyond them Gracile could see the tops of trees and the tiniest bit of roof of the low Alchemy building.

The manuscript writing consisted of the common traditional symbols used today in astronomy and anciently in alchemy, astrology, and other dubious arts--the devices of the sun, moon, planets, aspects, and zodiacal signs--here massed in solid pages of text, with divisions and paragraphings suggesting that each symbol answered to some alphabetical letter.

To the extent that either attempts to escape the flatland interlocking order at all, they do so by regression to agrarian alchemy, magico-mythic animism, astrology, horticultural planting mythology, or foraging human-nature indissociationall of which is based, of course, on the new physics.

Though not gifted with the strength and suppleness of a great humorist, he had an intermingled sweetness and brightness beyond even the alchemy of Addison.

This English knight was at different periods of his life an admiral, a theologian, a critic, a metaphysician, a politician, and a disciple of Alchemy.

IT is well known that alchemy preceded chemistry and hence the Secreta came first.

But by some unguessable alchemy the ruts had been refilled with the stalagmitic stuff, restoring the perfect squareness of the hewn blocks.

In transvestic terms, the search for the Erotic Mother takes the form of alchemy, for when he cross-dresses, the CD is unconsciously attempting to transform his ordinary longing and unremarkable maleness into a thing of great beauty: the very embodiment of the Erotic Mother.