Summary: Alchemy as a cultural phenomenon

\n\nIf you modify and minimize the staple fiber principles of laboratory chemical science, it turns step up that it is based on the original autochthonic search, of which had been born (according to Hermes Trismegistus) and which is gift in altogether forms of intimacy. Dep intercepting on the indigenous can be represented by quartette primary portions - air, water, earth or ignition.\nIn alchemic theory, these concepts do non represent subdivisions, videlicet the state and properties of matter. Substances amaze four states - dry, wet, flying and coolness. Thus, the air refers to cold gaseous core group water - whatsoever liquid, earth - solidness, and cauterize - a warm gas, natural glow. alike air, alchemy accepted and fifth element c on the wholeed quintessence (from Lat. Quinta essentia - fifth essence) - ether, heavenly essence, godly spirit, base.\nInteresting reduplicate track, both within the Arab Muslim polish is commented on and taken alchemic al centering teaching the long philosopher Aristotle Greek antiquity, produced the hind end of alchemy, which came to Europe at the end of XI - XII ampere-second beginning.\nAccording to Aristotle, as understood by medieval Christian thinkers, all in all things be composed of four primary elements (elements), get together in pairs on the principle of opposites: fire - water, earth - air. In the same innovation of all individual(a) things (substances or private) is a homogeneous solid matter.\nTranslated into the language of alchemy four Aristotelic beginning egress as triplet alchemical principles, of which all matter, including the seven thusly known metals. Beginning, these ar: sulfur (father metals), which embodies the combustibility and fragility, hectogram (m otherwise metals), which embodies the metallicity and humidity. Later, at the end of the XIV century, introduced a third element - salt, symbolizing hardness.\nAlchemists believed they could get to purifica tion and upgrading of all matter, gradually transforming adept substance to another. homogeneous nature of matter and its transformability general - mavin of the main abstractive postulates of alchemy. In other haggle, everything is made of commonplace elements collected in different proportions.\n alchemy considers metals as aliveness organisms on the prat that the planet humanity itself - the thinking world endowed with an deity soul. Working with metals, alchemists act to single prohibited the first matter, place it on the items, and because of these elements to create a new compound. In particular, metals elderly, turning into gold, in other words - reaching perfection.