Sage Stone (the Philosopher's stone) is a material exists in thelegend or myth. It is considered that the general non-precious metalsinto gold, can be used or manufacturing can make people immortalpanacea or cure all diseases. The other title of philosopher s stone,the stone of heaven, the red liquid, The Fifth Element, and so on.Alchemist of the relentless pursuit of this substance, it has also beengiven a great miracle great creative title. Sometimes, these designations are also used to the title of Sage Stone manufacturer in order to vividly demonstrate their living in vertices of Alchemy.
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The ↓ Alchemist in the Sage Stone
The concept of Sage Stone obvious from the eighth century AD, an Arab of Yemen was born in Persia Alchemist Jabir (Geber).Empedocles the four that material to consist of four elements, namely the "fire", "soil" and "water", "gas". The fire is hot and dry, the soil is cold and dry, the water is cold and wet, the air is hot and wet. He further established the "all metals are a combination of these four principles" theory: two internal, the other two external.
In this case, a metal deterioration into another metal, the process of inference for the reorganization of the four basic qualities. The hypothesis, contributed to this change of the medium is the material referred to in Arabic as al-iksir (this word is derived from the Western word panacea elixir). The substance is to imagine is a powder made of mysterious stone ─ ─ Sage Stone. When people believe that Sage Stone called carmot by a material composition.
Demand and fraud
The substance can be the base metal into precious gold, the idea naturally attracted all kinds of entrepreneurs - insiders and laymen, suspicious and gullible people, honest people and dishonest people. A typical example of this era is the Holy Roman Empire Rudolf II. Bohemian King Rudolf II, was experiencing financial problems and decided that substantial investment in finding Sage Stone. A result, he attracted a large group of alchemists came to the Bohemian capital, Prague. Where warlocks are to research the necessary material and financial assistance. And Rudolf II commitments, if they successfully solve the problem, get a reward of course will be more. This is a "virtual gold rush" to the results of Denmark's famous astronomer Tycho also led to the court of Rudolf II and his observation on the basis of the help of Rudolf II established a chain of gold laboratory.
Unfortunately, Rudolf II not only failed to finish the dream, and also allowed him to become irrational, results to be abandoned by the family. Him how irrational, natural causes or because of frequent contact with the toxic heavy metals, we do not know. However, Alchemy usually will use lead, mercury, arsenic, antimony and other toxic metals and semi-metallic, while the people of that era did not know of these metals causes chronic poisoning.
