Download or read book Alchemy Adult Coloring Book written by Alchemy Adult Alchemy Adult Coloring Book and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2016-09-22 with total page 50 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Alchemy is a philosophical and protoscientific tradition practiced throughout Europe, Egypt and Asia. It aimed to purify, mature, and perfect certain objects. Common aims were chrysopoeia, the transmutation of "base metals" (e.g., lead) into "noble" ones (particularly gold); the creation of an elixir of immortality; the creation of panaceas able to cure any disease; and the development of an alkahest, a universal solvent. The perfection of the human body and soul was thought to permit or result from the alchemical magnum opus and, in the Hellenistic and western tradition, the achievement of gnosis. In Europe, the creation of a philosopher's stone was variously connected with all of these projects.