 That there abides in nature a certain pure matter, which, being discovered and brought by art to perfection, converts to itself proportionally all imperfect bodies that it touches.  Elementary Chemistry - Page 11by Matthew Moncrieff Pattison Muir, Charles Slater - 1887 - 368 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Matthew Moncrieff Pattison Muir - Chemistry - 1901 - 208 pages
...unchanged. In chapter I. I quoted from an alchemist who said; "There abides in nature a certain form of matter which, being discovered and brought by art to perfection, converts to itself, proportionally, all imperfect bodies that it touches." I shall conclude this chapter by quoting from... | |
 | Ben Jonson - Alchemists - 1903 - 398 pages
...the end in view, how is it to be attained? I quote again: 'There abides in nature a certain form of matter which, being discovered and brought by art to perfection, converts to itself, proportionally, all imperfect bodies that it touches V This was a fundamental proposition in alchemy.... | |
 | Ben Jonson - English language - 1903 - 396 pages
...the end in view, how is it to be attained ? I quote again: ' There abides in nature a certain form of matter which, being discovered and brought by art to perfection, converts to itself, proportionally, all imperfect bodies that it touches V This was a fundamental proposition in alchemy.... | |
 | Robert Kennedy Duncan - Astrophysics - 1905 - 296 pages
...changing forms of matter are but a superficial manifestation. " There abides in nature a certain form of matter which being discovered and brought by art to perfection, converts to itself all imperfect bodies that it touches." This is a saying of the ancient alchemy, and it constitutes... | |
 | Matthew Moncrieff Pattison Muir - Chemistry - 1906 - 610 pages
...particular qualities of some substances than those of others. "There abides in nature a certain form of matter which, being discovered and brought by art to perfection, converts to itself, proportionally, all imperfect bodies that it touches." What Berthelot says of this doctrine is true... | |
 | Mary Anne Atwood - Alchemy - 1918 - 712 pages
...comprehended in that only statement of Arnold di Villanova, in his Speculum, — That there abides in nature a certain pure matter, which, being discovered and brought by art to perfection, converts to itself proportionally all imperfect bodies that it touches. And this would seem to be the true ground of metalline... | |
 | Asia - 1919 - 692 pages
...comprehended in that only statement of Arnold di Villanova in his "Speculum": That there abides in nature a certain pure matter which, being discovered and...proportionately all imperfect bodies that it touches. And this would seem to be the true ground of metalline transmutation, and every other — namely, the... | |
 | A. Cochren - 2001 - 166 pages
...Speculum ' of Arnaud de Villeneuve come these words : ' There is in Nature a certain fine essence, which being discovered and brought by art to perfection...proportionately all imperfect bodies that it touches,' so that the first matter of all metals and substances is a fixed something altered by the diversities... | |
 | Mircea Eliade - Philosophy - 1978 - 239 pages
...capacity to transmute metals into gold. In the words of Arnold of Villanova, 'there abides in Nature a certain pure matter which, being discovered and brought by Art to perfection, converts to itself all imperfect bodies that it touches' (quoted by J. Read, op. cit., p. 119). Here then, very much alive,... | |
 | John Read - Science - 1995 - 260 pages
...at about the opening of the fourteenth century, in the following words: 'That there abides in Nature a certain pure matter, which, being discovered and brought by Art to perfection, converts to itself proportionally all imperfect bodies that it touches.' The idea had originated long before that time:... | |
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