Memoirs of extraordinary popular delusions.

Main Author: Mackay, Charles, 1814-1889.
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Champaign, Ill. : Project Gutenberg, [199-?]
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Table of Contents:
  • The Alchymists; or, Searchers for the Philosopher's Stone and the Water of Life
  • Part I.
  • History of Alchymy from the earliest eriods to the Fifteenth Century.
  • Pretended antiquity of the art.
  • Geber
  • Alfarabi.
  • Avicenna.
  • Albertus Magnus.
  • Thomas Aquinas.
  • Artiephius.
  • Alain de Lisle.
  • Arnold de Villeneuve.
  • Pietro d'Apone.
  • Rayomnd Lulli.
  • Roger Bacon.
  • Pope John XXII.
  • Jean de Meung.
  • Nicholas Flamel.
  • George Ripley.
  • Basil Valentine.
  • Bernard of Treves.
  • Tritihemius.
  • The Marechal de Rays.
  • Jacques Coeur.
  • inferior Adepts.
  • Part II.
  • Progress of the Infatuation during the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries.
  • Augurello.
  • Cornelius Agrippa.
  • Paracelsus.
  • George Agricola.
  • Denys Zachaire.
  • Dr. Dee and Edward Kelly.
  • The Cosomopolite.
  • Sendivogius.
  • The Rosicrucians.
  • Michael Mayer.
  • Robert Fludd.
  • Jacob Bohmen.
  • John Heydn.
  • Joseph Francis Borri.
  • Alchymical Writers of the Seveenteenth Century.
  • De Lisle.
  • Albert Aluys.
  • Count de St. Germains.
  • Cagliostro.
  • present State of the Science.
  • Book II. Fortune telling
  • Book II.
  • The Magnetisers.