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Libra Esoterica

Remarks upon alchemy and the alchemists, indicating a method of discovering the true nature of Hermetic philosophy

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

by Ethan Allan Hitchcock & University of Glasgow. Library

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  • 19th century
  • Language: English
  • Content type: Primary source
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  • Alchemy and Hermeticism

    Controlled discovery queries from internet-archive and openlibrary-historical matched “Alchemy”. Retained metadata contains “Alchemy” in the title, “hermetic” in the title, “Alchemy” in the subject metadata, and 2 additional metadata match(es).

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    • “Alchemy”· via Open Library
    • “Alchemy”· in title
    • “hermetic”· in title
    • “Alchemy”· in subject
    • “Alchemy”· in edition title

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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

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1865New YorkEnglish—Public

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  • Contributing institution: University of Glasgow Library
  • Digitization sponsor: Jisc and Wellcome Library
  • Discovery required Internet Archive search metadata to report a PDF format; the exact direct-file URL is added only after the item's file listing confirms an unrestricted PDF filename.
  • Internet Archive institutional collection: europeanlibraries; medicalheritagelibrary
  • Scanner: scribetteu5
  • Source-reported rights: <a href="http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/" rel="ugc nofollow">This work is available under the Creative Commons, Public Domain Mark</a>
  • Source-reported rights: This work is available under the Creative Commons, Public Domain Mark
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openlibrary-work:OL17675067W
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