| json_metadata | "{"app":"Musing","appTags":["Question"],"appCategory":"Question","appTitle":"What is alchemy?","appBody":"<p>The specialty of alchemy was passed on during that time from Egypt and Arabia to Greece and Rome, lastly to western and focal Europe. The word is gotten from the Arabian expression \"al-kimia,\" which alludes to the arrangement of the Stone or Elixir by the Egyptians. The Arabic root \"kimia\" originates from the Coptic \"khem\" that suggested the fruitful dark soil of the Nile delta. Exclusively and hieroglyphically, the word alludes to the dull riddle of the primordial or First Matter (the Khem). </p><p>Streamlined, the points of the chemists were triple: to locate the Stone of Knowledge (The Philosophers' Stone), to find the medium of Eternal Youth and Health, and to find the transmutation of metals. To the medieval chemist's mind the distinctive components were nevertheless a similar unique substance in fluctuating degrees of virtue. Gold was the most perfect of all and silver pursued intently. </p><p>In the beginning of alchemy, the galactic indications of the planets were additionally utilized as catalytic images. At that point in the time of medieval oppression and concealment each chemist imagined his own mystery images. Con artists, quacks and cheats assumed control and alchemy progressed toward becoming, alongside divination and black magic, notorious for misrepresentation and coercion. In the eighteenth century researchers attempted to pry free the genuine accomplishments in science, pharmacology and medication from this befuddling cornucopia of science and enchantment.</p>","appDepth":2,"appParentPermlink":"fk8t2gkl5","appParentAuthor":"ishewole","musingAppId":"aU2p3C3a8N","musingAppVersion":"1.1","musingPostType":"answer"}" |
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