The Alchemist’s Secret (Ben Hope, Book 1)

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John also wrote On the Consideration of the Fifth Essence of All Things. With it, he extended alchemy into a new area—medicine. During the Antichrist’s reign, Christians would need not only gold but also their full health. Thus, John recounts how he sought a substance that could prevent corruption and decay and thus preserve the body from illness and premature aging. He found such a substance in the distillate of wine—what he called “burning water” or “water of life,” and what we call alcohol. The Latin alchemical term for this delightful liquid— aqua vitae—lives on in the names of several liquors: the Italian acquavite, the French eau-de-vie, and the Scandinavian akvavit. Access-restricted-item true Addeddate 2020-09-14 09:02:26 Boxid IA1928920 Camera Sony Alpha-A6300 (Control) Collection_set printdisabled External-identifier Zosimos’s orientation toward a central goal (metallic transmutation), his insightful engagement with the practical problems in reaching it, his search for the means of surmounting these problems, and his formulation and application of theoretical principles clearly underscore his writings as something new. Zosimos’s texts witness a coherent program of research that draws on both material and intellectual resources. He describes a wide array of useful apparatus—for distillation, sublimation, filtration, fixation, and so forth—in great detail.

John describes a series of sublimations of mercury with vitriol and saltpeter, followed by digestions and distillations. Despite the apparently clear directions, however, his first step will not work in a modern laboratory if followed verbatim. The sublimate “white as snow” that John describes making is undoubtedly mercuric chloride; therefore, the starting mixture must have included common salt, but this substance is not mentioned in the list of ingredients. There are two possible explanations. First, John’s saltpeter might have been quite impure and contained a large quantity of common salt. In fact, his book contains an annotation toward the end that notes how crude saltpeter ordinarily contains salt, and gives a method for purifying it by fractional crystallization. The second possibility is that John intentionally left out the crucial ingredient as a way of preserving secrecy. If this is the case, then it is significant that the end of his book includes a rather out-of-place paragraph describing the general importance of table salt, its ubiquity, its use in purifying metals, and so forth, and then states that “the whole secret is in salt.” Whichever explanation is correct, the historical message is the same: alchemical recipes have to be read with care. Those that seem unworkable need not reflect negatively on the author’s abilities or veracity, but might rather indicate a “hidden ingredient”—either something present as an unsuspected impurity or something artfully omitted. Străinul vorbea singur, cu voce scăzută, murmurând cuvinte trunchiate, amestecate cu suspine, cu umerii tresăltând. Părintele Pascal îi puse haina în spate, simţind cum ploaia torenţială îi uda leoarcă, instantaneu, propria cămaşă.

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Professor Ambrose has come across an old diary. A secret chamber when the university was constructed over 300 years ago that might contain the mysteries of making gold or some other treasures. Like a Hollywood movie it started, like a movie it ended. What's in between, is a story of suspense thriller, action adventure, conspiracy, love and hardcore killings and survival. Furthermore, many of the substances that alchemists worked with, such as sulfur, mercury, and salt, are still used in chemistry today. While alchemists may not have been able to turn lead into gold, their experiments and discoveries paved the way for modern chemistry. Conclusion:

găsi repede pe străinul prăbuşit cu faţa în jos printre mărăcinii şi frunzele căzute de la marginea pădurii. Tremura din toate încheieturile şi îşi cuprinsese cu braţele trunchiul costeliv. În întunericul umed, preotul reuşi să vadă că straiele îi atârnau de trup, zdrenţuite. The first book in the Ben Hope series is called The Alchemist’s Secret. The Alchemist’s Secret introduces our hero, Ben, as a former elite SAS soldier. He is highly skilled, but tortured by catastrophe from his past. He’s put that life behind him as best he could and now devotes his entire life to rescuing kidnapped children. However, when Ben is recruited to locate an old manuscript that could help in saving the life of dying child. He is inspired to change his mind and ends up embarking on the deadliest quest for his life.

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It seems that everyone – from the Nazis during WW2 and powerful Catholic organisation Gladius Domini – wants to unearth the secrets of immortality. This is pretty good; in fact I'd put it alongside Andy McDermott and Steve Berry. All three follow the lead character safety net of a stoical, military trained loner with a sense of failure in their emotional past, one that can only be put right by saving others. Cliched, but it works. In this case we have one Ben Hope, probably from the same fictional regiment as Cotton Malone and Eddie Chase. In this case - whereas Eddie is given over to exuberant cursing and cheesy one-liners as he gallivants around after Nina Wilde and Cotton is a bit more intellectual with his Nordic bookshop and CIA help, Ms Stephanie Nelle - Ben is a loner with a drink problem, who is capable of killing with a Browning 9mm in a way not seen since...oh, I don't know... the last brilliant sniper in a literary context. Lawrence Principe is one of the foremost scholars of alchemy in the world. He earned his first PhD in chemistry and his second in the history of science.We asked him to give our readers a taste of his bookThe Secrets of Alchemy .

Ask me why I liked The Alchemist's Secret? And the answer is simple. Because it's good. From the first chapter its fast paced, and it rarely slow down. Of course there are loop-holes within the story, but those didn't bother me much to avoid fun. Often when a story can give me enough joy, I tend to ignore that tiny errors it beholds. Because, every story has errors if you really want to find them. But, the main goal should be to enjoy it while we can. That's why we read books to begin with, isn't it?

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Ocr ABBYY FineReader 11.0 (Extended OCR) Ocr_converted abbyy-to-hocr 1.1.7 Ocr_module_version 0.0.13 Old_pallet IA19218 Openlibrary_edition WITH GREAT POWER, COMES GREAT RESPONSIBILITY. “অ্যালকেমি”র মতো শব্দ যখন শিরোনামে, তখন এই শব্দের সম্মান রাখা লেখকের অবশ্য কর্তব্য। নইলে, আপনার শিরোনাম পছন্দ করা কেবল বেনিয়াবৃত্তি মনে হবে। It might seem incongruous that a man so fervently committed to the ideal of poverty would also devote himself to finding the secret of making gold. The manuscript is reported to have contained the formula for the elixir of life, invented by the brilliant alchemist Fulcanelli decades ago. It was later discovered that other people were also hunting for this precious treasure, but it seems that almost everyone, from the Nazis of the past to the modern Shadowy organization known as Gladius Domini, is determined to discover the secrets of immorality. Father Brown gets to be Indiana Jones in this episode. Sunlight pointing the way to hidden rooms. Maps about a village that suddenly disappeared. A box that should remain unopened.

Besides authoring books, Scott also has a passion in shooting photography, archery, and astronomy. He considers himself to be a nature lover and a strong activist of conservation, supporting charities like The Woodland Trust and The World Life fund. According to most readers, Scott is an author who has a unique way of captivating the heart of his readers. In the cosmopolitan crossroads of Greco-Roman Egypt, the two streams of craft traditions and philosophical traditions coexisted. Their merger—probably in the third century AD—gave rise to the independent discipline of alchemy. The intimate mingling of the two traditions is evident in the earliest substantial texts we have about chrysopoeia [gold making]. These writings come from a Greco-Egyptian alchemist who would be revered as an authority for the rest of alchemy’s history, and the first about whom we have any reasonably substantial or reliable historical details: Zosimos of Panopolis. Much of this new understanding remains little known outside of a small circle of academic specialists. In the wider world the revolution in our knowledge of alchemy might count as one of alchemy’s biggest secrets. But the subject of alchemy remains evocative and alluring for a broad array of people; I have met many who would genuinely like to know more about it. Unfortunately, the resources currently available are rather slim. The readily available general histories of alchemy in English are all over 50 years old, and while they were excellent resources in their day, they now need updating. My goal in writing The Secrets of Alchemy was to bring the results of recent academic work to a broader public. The book surveys the history of alchemy from its origins in late antiquity to the present day. It focuses on a few representative characters and ideas from each of alchemy’s several historical epochs in the West—the Greco-Egyptian, the Arabic, the Latin medieval, the early modern, and the modern. The Secrets of Alchemy also shows how the frustratingly obscure secret language of code and metaphor routinely used by alchemists to hide their knowledge (and hopes) can be deciphered—sometimes into impressive feats of chemical experimentalism—and even replicated in a modern laboratory. The text is written for anyone interested in the story of alchemy and its remarkable practitioners and ideas. Extensive endnotes (almost a third of the book) provide a guide through the current scholarly literature on the subject for those wishing to wade further into the subject’s deep waters.După atâţia ani în care îşi păstorise enoriaşii, un instinct firesc îl îmboldea să încerce să vină în ajutorul unui suflet nefericit. The Ben Hope series is a must-read for fans of Dan Brown, Lee Child and Mark Dawson. Join the millions of readers who get breathless with anticipation when the countdown to the new Ben Hope thriller begins…