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The Story of Alchemy and the Beginnings of Chemistry
·
M. M. Pattison Muir
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Most
of
the
alchemists
taught
that
the
elements
produced
what
they
called
seed,
by
their
mutual
reactions,
and
the
principles
matured
this
seed
and
brought
it
to
perfection.
They
supposed
that
each
class,
or
kind,
of
things
had
its
own
seed,
and
that
to
obtain
the
seed
was
to
have
the
power
of
producing
the
things
which
sprung
from
that
seed.
Some
of
them,
however,
asserted
that
all
things
come
from
a
common
seed,
and
that
the
nature
of
the
products
of
this
seed
is
conditioned
by
the
circumstances
under
which
it
is
caused
to
develop.
Thus
Michael
Sendivogius
writes
as
follows
in
The
New
Chemical
Light,
drawn
from
the
fountain
of
Nature
and
of
Manual
Experience
(17th
century):--
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