Inside the Mind of an Alchemist - Featuring Larry Principe - Bytesize Science
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- Опубліковано 4 лип 2024
- The world of alchemy is shrouded in mystery. Alchemists tirelessly sought the recipe for the Philosophers' Stone -- a substance that could turn any base metal into pure gold. The Philosophers' Stone would give its user untold wealth and power, so alchemists were known to operate under total secrecy. They worked in codes and symbols -- to reserve their great knowledge for only those who were deemed deserving. Instead of the chemical formulas used today, alchemists created elaborate, fantastic illustrations of dragons, warriors, and monsters to represent the chemical experiments they carried out.
Centuries passed, and many historical alchemical texts and images remain undeciphered. Luckily for the history of science, we have brilliant minds like Larry Principe of Johns Hopkins University.
In our latest video, we take a look at Larry's work: digging deep into ancient manuscripts and texts, trying to find clues and cues as to what it was that alchemists really were up to. In addition to an enormous book collection in his office, Larry has a lab where he performs ancient alchemical experiments, helping to set the record straight on the history and development of alchemy. Is he a historian of alchemy or a get-rich-quick schemer in search of the legendary Philosophers' stone? You decide.
Video by Kirk Zamieroski
Produced by the American Chemical Society
Ah man. This is awesome. Been trying to find a video like this forever that explains it in a way that makes sense and isn't stepped too heavy in the dissonance of the modern occult. Wish there was more. Thanks for the upload!
I would recommend the 1st part of the BBC documentary BBC Chemistry - A Volatile History: Episode 1
ua-cam.com/video/g_2bo4abkPI/v-deo.html
Robert allen bartlett
Manfred Junius
Phoenix aurelius research academy.
Look harder.
I watched this for my class on scientific revolutions; really interesting stuff. I want to learn more about alchemy!
Robert allen bartlett
Manfred Junius
Phoenix aurelius research academy.
Look harder.
"I also have one [a retort] that I keep at home and use on the kitchen stove to distill after-dinner drinks in."
OMG, that's great! XD
Now this looks like a fun and worthwhile project to be working on!
This is the nicest video you guys have made! It's wonderful!
One of the best presentations on Alchemy I've ever seen. Extremely engaging and interesting, thank you all!
Robert allen bartlett
Manfred Junius
Phoenix aurelius research academy.
Well taught! Interesting.
Really appreciate his work! Fun video
The learning curve can throw some people for a loop!
Good interview, well produced.
You are the man!
I like it. Great host! Neat production!
Very interesting!
Hohenheim? is that you?
this guy is awesome
I am so happy from seeing this but so hungry to learn more! At least I can fantasize while adjusting temperatures to cook dinner....
Robert allen bartlett
Manfred Junius
Phoenix aurelius research academy.
Start reading here
Finally I found a university professor who respect alchemy.........
Sadly many I met either think it is an illusion or they do not even want to believe in it even those working on study of Alchemy "historically" as if it is now a relic ??
It is in fact everything we hope for!??
Because it requires certain level of responsibility and commitment. If I tell you what it can do/ you can do using it you would think I am crazy..... I myself despite what I have seen some times do not even myself!!
Sandito Diaz - Catholic persecution. It's what made Hermeticism way sexier, cloaked, and more clandestine than Hindu or Buddhist esotericism.
Alchemy is nothing more than chemistry that lacks the knowledge of atoms and molecular bonds. This person clearly knows chemistry.
I got in a debate with a chemist because of this the chemist denied any link of alchemy to chemistry and that alchemy was just mombojombo. I even shared information from credited scientists and he still denied the link.
Most historians of science know that Alchemy is basically Chemistry with a spiritual component.
Fascinating topic; excellent delivery from Dr. Principe. However, I was quite distracted by the cornball music track.
Lead into gold, indeed.... more like refined by the fires of the crucible!
What?
This ain't destiny
@ destiny has so many references to alchemy, it's basically alchemy the game
oh yea ik that's why i fell in love with the game till D2 but nah i was just bein funny cuz he said crucible like the multiplayer over voice
super cool
Good job. Larry, do you know about the tree of Diana or the Philosopher's tree in alchemy ?
If I wanted to encrypt my alchemical experiments, I would do it in drawn circles with mixed shapes and the alchemical symbols in them.
I think you are mistaking demonic circle or others ritual with Alchemy
@@gandalf7262 No I’m not.
@@gandalf7262 demonic circles lol, as an occultist, demonic circles don't exist mate. Pentacles on the other hand do and this person isn't talking about that in the first place
im so interested to learn about Alchemy
Robert allen bartlett
Manfred Junius
Phoenix aurelius research academy.
Start your research here
Hi Larry, What would the alchemists do with the material they produced? Was it ingested or used to make talismans for example? Thank you
It produces potable medicines
It gives you super intelligence... Paracelsus, Isaac Newton, Boyle, to name a few.
one thing I came across was our no all soler systems I just a giant symbol it was from the year 12 dc
Take care with customhouses and the respective invoices. :o
Your new nickname is Mister breakdown
I would love to know where the retort heater came from....
Me to
how do i start if i want to become an alchemist. I have the basic understanding of the atom, and i can understand and use the ptable.
Robert allen bartlett
Manfred Junius
Phoenix aurelius research academy.
Start here
So many that know so little
We know 90% of the people here are because of FullMetal Alchemist and we all know the first law
but of course
that's kinda true....
cool im part of the 10%
+Alicia Laucirica o boi
Austin Nunn * One is All and All is One
I wonder if all the people commenting that alchemy is "only for those worthy" know that if you need to believe something for it to be real, then it is not...
It is not wise nor religious to judge what you do not know 😉
kind of like how people today believe that scientific materialism is the only "real" knowledge about how the world and universe works.
If you haven't done the laboratory work your pseudo-intellectual posturing is a joke.
cool
Anyone else about FullMetal Alchemist?+1
No. I'm here because I learned that JK Rowling researched Alchemy for the Harry Potter books.
Harry Potter and the History of Alchemy
A lecture and a quiz about Harry Potter and the history of alchemy, delivered at the Augustus C. Long Health Sciences Library at Columbia University, Jan. 28, 2015.
ua-cam.com/video/jETN5txYIbE/v-deo.html
I would love to do this
Im so fascinated with alchemy and chemistry
@@marialapura5101start here:
Robert Allen Bartlett
Dr. Ross Mack
Manfred Junius
is there any good movies on alchemists?
*whispers into your ear*
"FULLMETAL ALCHEMIST!"
Hi, I'd like to learn alchemy which book(s) would you suggest I purchase? Thank you very much!
Just go and learn chemistry then learn how to drow and voila! Your an alchemist...
go to google.. type in the name of the book followed by pdf. i wasted a lot of time and money trying to find the actual books, but i learned you can get almost any book for free, just download and print or download and take notes. as for suggested reading i recommend Practical plant alchemy, the alchemists handbook, and any of the writings of Paracelsus..
...the important thing to understand is that alchemy to the uninitiated is not understandable.. the ancient alchemists used symbols, metaphors, anagrams, and symbolism to hide their true meaning... you have to start your learning from the writers who said things in the most plain way, then when u understand what they are talking about, you can find older books, and when you read them u will know what they are talking about instead of what they said...
... hope this helps.. also look into RAMS collection of manuscripts, the Rosicrucians, Freemasonry, Bacon, Shakespeare, meir, and the ancient egyptions to the Chinese to the Arabs and to the Jewish alchemists of old... also its important to learn the processes and steps involved, as well as the tools required, cause without knowing these nothing can be done..
Philalethes
Real Alchemy by Robert Barlet is a greate place to start
@@TheMelopeusalchemy isn't chemistry. If you haven't done the lab work your opinion is comedy.
Good interview! Bad music.
I wonder if Philosophers Stone will ever be made
I think it will
The philosopher stone is an idea to hold something in your mind and hold it in your hands at the same time
@dallasunboxer6716 your dumber than a box of rocks. Go do the lab work and stop talking about things you know nothing about.
This is super awesome cool 😎 I’m a biologist 🧪 I was a lab assistant
I clapped my hands about 29 times and still no success
1) Learn Chemistry
2) Learn the history of Alchemy
3) Do experiments.
4) Bam! you are a real Alchemist.
@justarandomgal2683 you're a sad liar.
Start reading here:
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Dr. Ross Mack
Manfred Junius
A real true alchemist is one that turns your heart to gold spiritualy..... now that's the true true alchemist
I haven't read all the comments but you are the only one who understands the truth. I too, am a miner for a heart of gold.
Yes this is the story provided for fools.
As above so below.
Lol. No. If you haven't done the lab work your opinion is irrelevant. Robert allen bartlett
Manfred Junius
Phoenix aurelius research academy.
Study and work.
@@buckaroobonsaitree7488you're a fool lol
What are the base alchemical elements
Fire, water, air, earth. Or copper, tin, mercury, and lead.
@@buckaroobonsaitree7488wrong
Start reading here:
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Manfred Junius
Dr. Ross Mack
Those glasswares are more convenient than todays glassware but yeah some are now attachable. HAHAHA
Not the same
this video was fun ... not informative ... Alchemy is not dead , just a very hard subject to penetrate , yes real Alchemy uses lab work , its not all symbology ... good luck on your search for Alchemical secrets !
I'm gonna start calling people a "retort"
Super informative. The fuck is with this tiny toons music though
So he’s a historian of science... interesting...👁👄👁
i dont know if most chemists are named al now that you mentioned it was einstein a al or a chemists or alchemist,
noice
hi do you teach alchemy? im looking for a mentor?
Start by learning Chemistry.
@@justarandomgal2683alchemy is diametrically opposed to chemistry. Stop misguiding people.
Your ancestors
Everybody knows that in order to create a philosopher’s stone you’ll need human sacrifices. Duh 🙄
Prove it. From which lecture or images?
@@gandalf7262 have you watched Full metal alchemist? Duh 🙄😒
@@gandalf7262 a young scientist in early 1900 Europe named Edward Elric discovered this
@@gandalf7262 He died btw
Life essence can be found anywhere. Urine is the most common.
considering gold was a form of currency, wouldn't alchemists use alchemy to "create" gold to express their wealth?
Not how it works
Alchemy is black majic
Stfu
No. It's just too hard for the Arab mind.
ELDEN RING!
This guy has a philosophers stone.
Alchemy is Def more than just this. But good job keeping ppl away from the truth
were you expecting a 5-minute video to explain the metaphorical aspect of it as well as the practical aspect of it?
You sound mad and ridiculous.
Go do the lab work and grow.
hasn't the "science" of alchemy been debunked for hundreds of years
It was debunked by Carl Jung who analyzed it psychologically. Just as any spiritual / religious movement alchemy is about psychic projections and symbolism. That's why it fascinated people so much. Alchemy is not proto science, it hasn't really anything to do with chemistry, only superficially, since the symbolism is projected onto chemical substances. in the same way as beliefs in UFOs has nothing to do with actual astronomy. Different religions have different words for the same thing. Alchemy talks about "gold", christianity of "heaven", and buddhism about "enlightenment".
@@frenne_dilley Alchemy became modern Chemistry.
From Alchemy to Chemistry
The Origins of Today's "Central Science"
Many of the earliest chemists, physicians, and philosophers were also alchemists.
www.khanacademy.org/partner-content/big-history-project/stars-and-elements/other-material3/a/from-alchemy-to-chemistry
Lol. Have you ever done the lab work?
If not then what place do you have to speak on it?
@tjovadevalivat Carl Jung is so stupid he never even did the lab work and then wrote abook about something he never did.
He's so stupid he couldn't even decipher the texts.
that all Wrong
Explain
If he doesn’t saw the first law he’s a fake
Real alchemist is edward elric
The music sucks....
Why not just label these substances using IUPAC nomenclature?
Because it doesn't fit.
Go see Robert allen bartletts analytics on alchemical products.
Alchemy is a true science and what it produces cannot be explained always via the sad fractal obsession called chemistry
those nails🤮
This man is a chemist. This is alchemy misunderstood. You do not need "lab ware" to practice the art of alchemy. He could buy a thousand more books ....but he still doesn't know the secret. It's really quite simple. The experts tend to overthink things. I hope he learns one day, then it will make sense and he will have a good laugh. Truth is stranger than fiction. Soli Deo Gloria
Kevin Christie Then, do you know? How can you say it is simple?
+Kevin Christie Ok genius
John Christie Very true, he is making a ancient mistake.
@John Christie , and you obviously don't know the secret. Alchemy, like all great practices, has a Material, Mental, and Spiritual side symbolized by the Body, Mind/Soul (personality), and Spirit (divine spark within). To deny one part of these is to deny a fundamental of the "Whole", an important and existent part of the emanations of all reality. You have far to go my friend.
You are an absolute fool.
Read a book and do the labwork.
Start here:
Robert Allen Bartlett
Manfred Junius
Dr. Ross Mack
Alchemy is natural only and does not require a lab. It is the language of the birds…pure symbolism: a process in nature that nature would not accomplish alone, and requires the alchemist to help.
It requires, Mercury which is water (Mer-cury), sulphur which is sun (sol-fire) and salt which is a type of earth. It also requires a vessel that adheres to the golden ration (firmament).
It’s in Genesis and other myths….
So all this is unnecessary
You are a sad fool.
If you haven't done the lab work and attained results you should stay silent about things you know nothing of.
This is about Chemistry and not Alchemy. Where's the pyramid?
@Dimitri Mendeleev said the highly misinformed skeptic. Alchemy is as real as the sun in the sky and is what inspired many world religions. The whole big secret of the ages is Alchemy.
@@skiwalker9041I can tell you've never done the lab work.
Do the lab work.
@@NdjdhdjdbdDhhdhdhd "Lab Work" is chemistry, as Alchemy is worked out in nature and not in a lab. This is why chemists will never know the secret of Alchemy because they do not seek it in nature, always trying to bend nature and matter to their desired will.
@@skiwalker9041 tldr. Do the lab work or don't speak on things you know nothing about.
@@skiwalker9041 sorry but I'm not impresses by your pseudo-intellectual oregon-hippie style new-age nonsense. Do the work or stop pretending to know.
Thank you Larry, but it's still my least favorite skill Skyrim. Just way too much work.
Seems like a waste of time, those people back then should have known better.
If you haven't done the lab work, shut your mouth lol
This guy will not discover the stone