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17th century alchemist's scroll giving instructions for the 'elixir of life'
Daily Mail ^
| 17 December 2017
| Sophie Inge
Posted on 12/17/2017 2:27:40 PM PST by mairdie
An incredibly rare 17th century alchemist's scroll giving instructions for the elixir of life has sold for a magical 585,000 [pounds].
The delicate manuscript was an illustrative methodology of 15th century scientist George Ripley's recipe for the philosophers' stone which made a potion that supposedly granted the drinker eternal life.
It also gave instructions for turning base metals into gold.
Although the instructions were impossibly cryptic - there is one reference to using dragon's blood - it didn't stop scholars of the time, including Sir Isaac Newton, giving it a go.
(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk ...
TOPICS: History
KEYWORDS: alchemy; epigraphyandlanguage; georgeriple; godsgravesglyphs; isaacnewton; magic; magnumopus; middleages; ohsomysteriouso; philosophersstone; renaissance; sirisaacnewton
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posted on
12/17/2017 2:27:40 PM PST
by
mairdie
To: mairdie
Barley, water, yeast.........
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posted on
12/17/2017 2:29:31 PM PST
by
Species8472
(It's the only way to be sure)
To: mairdie
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posted on
12/17/2017 2:29:51 PM PST
by
Fiddlstix
(Warning! This Is A Subliminal Tagline! Read it at your own risk!(Presented by TagLines R US))
To: mairdie
It also gave instructions for turning base metals into gold.Bitcoin is still a safer bet.
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posted on
12/17/2017 2:31:27 PM PST
by
Ciaphas Cain
(Liberalism, as with all else evil, can never create. It can only corrupt.)
To: mairdie
I keep thinking what a great poster it would make in the kitchen. Next to my New Orleans shrimp recipe poster.
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posted on
12/17/2017 2:32:51 PM PST
by
mairdie
To: mairdie
All these alchemists were so intent on teaching others how to turn lead into gold. If they knew how, they would have done it, shut their mouth, and gotten rich.
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posted on
12/17/2017 2:34:20 PM PST
by
Fungi
(Eat a fungus or two today.)
To: Fungi
That is so insightful! You are absolutely right!
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posted on
12/17/2017 2:36:22 PM PST
by
mairdie
To: Species8472
Lol!
Yeah, my thoughts exactly. I was gonna say “booze”.
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posted on
12/17/2017 2:37:11 PM PST
by
ifinnegan
(Democrats kill babies and harvest their organs to sell)
To: Fiddlstix
Alway an honor to be on the same thread with the immortal Fiddlstix.
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posted on
12/17/2017 2:40:51 PM PST
by
Fungi
(Eat a fungus or two today.)
To: Fungi
Reminds me of the F. Scott Fitzgerald short about the family that lives on a gargantuan diamond.
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posted on
12/17/2017 2:41:13 PM PST
by
txhurl
(Banana Republicans, as far as the eye can see)
To: Fungi
GEEZ! Shouldn’t you set yourself higher standards~ ROTFL!
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posted on
12/17/2017 2:49:05 PM PST
by
Fiddlstix
(Warning! This Is A Subliminal Tagline! Read it at your own risk!(Presented by TagLines R US))
To: ifinnegan
Ironside said good chili had everything needed to sustain life.
The recipe was never mentioned.
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posted on
12/17/2017 2:55:30 PM PST
by
wally_bert
(I didn't get where I am today by selling ice cream tasting of bookends, pumice stone & West Germany)
To: mairdie
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posted on
12/17/2017 2:57:16 PM PST
by
JoeProBono
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To: Species8472
Barley, water, yeast..............toads and dragons. Toads, OK but dragons are hard to come by..........
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posted on
12/17/2017 2:57:34 PM PST
by
Hot Tabasco
(My cat is not fat, she is just big boned........)
To: ifinnegan
Yeah, my thoughts exactly. I was gonna say “booze”. Well, the Scots and the Irish got that one right at least.
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posted on
12/17/2017 2:59:54 PM PST
by
COBOL2Java
(John McCain treats GOP voters like he treated his first wife)
To: Species8472
LOL! Just what I was going to say.
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posted on
12/17/2017 3:02:11 PM PST
by
GrandJediMasterYoda
(Trump: Greatest POTUS of all time solely for preventing Satan from taking office.)
To: Species8472
LOL! Just what I was going to say.
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posted on
12/17/2017 3:02:11 PM PST
by
GrandJediMasterYoda
(Trump: Greatest POTUS of all time solely for preventing Satan from taking office.)
To: mairdie
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posted on
12/17/2017 3:04:22 PM PST
by
wastedyears
(US out of the UN, UN out of the US.)
To: Hot Tabasco
That’s why we are so short of dragons now!
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posted on
12/17/2017 3:04:30 PM PST
by
Reily
To: mairdie
Poor fellow. Didn’t seem to work for him.
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