Noël Falconet was a physician who died in 1734. He wrote letters and remarks concerning so-called potable gold, reflecting debates among alchemists over gold-based medicinal preparations. He produced observations about the feasibility of this practice. Related Posts:AstrologyMoney (Associated with the Devil)Zairagiah, Divination by Rotating Letters in Arabic…Potable Silver
Edward Fairfax was an English poet active during the sixteenth century. He authored a work called Démonologie, which detailed witchcraft beliefs of that period. He included accounts aligned with the era’s concepts on sorcery. Related Posts:20+ German Photographers Who Redefined Artistic ExpressionMythological Anatomy: The Hidden Vocabulary of the…Regions with the Highest Life Expectancy in EuropeThe … Read more
Pierre-Jean Fabre (French: Pierre-Jean Fabre) was a physician from Montpellier who made contributions to chemistry in the early seventeenth century. He integrated alchemy into his studies and wrote several works on spagyric medicine, including Alchimista christianus (Toulouse, 1632) and Hercules piochymicus (Toulouse, 1634). He advanced the idea that the Labors of Hercules symbolized hermetic philosophy. … Read more
Albert Belin (French: Albert Belin) was a Benedictine born in Besançon in 1610. He wrote works on talismans and sympathetic powders, including the Traité des talismans, ou Figures astrales, first published in 1671, which addressed their natural effects and methods for their creation. The 1709 edition included his treatise La Poudre de sympathie justifiée. Another … Read more