Chemical Experiments on the Radical Dissolution of Bodies

to assemble them again, without being able to produce such bodies through human art In this context, "art" refers to Ars, the technical skill or craft of the chemist or alchemist in manipulating natural substances..

If someone asks me: "Is the artificial production of gold possible?" I answer: I deny nothing until I am convinced of its total impossibility; however, I believe that demonstrating the impossibility of gold production in practice is just as difficult as making the gold itself.

Meanwhile, I flatter myself that I have rendered a service to chemistry original: Chimie through my experience, because it leads us further toward the knowledge of nature. The gold that I seek is Truth.

But to the gentlemen alchemists, I write the following:

Alchemists and lottery players share almost the same fate; the former hope in vain for their universal Universale: Also known as the Universal Medicine or the Philosopher’s Stone, this was the legendary substance alchemists believed could cure all diseases and transmute base metals into gold. with every operation, just as the latter hope for their five-number win Quinterne: In the historical lottery systems of the 18th and 19th centuries, this was the highest possible win, achieved by correctly guessing five drawn numbers. with every draw.

I wish to tell them my opinion on alchemy.

It seems to me that he who seeks gold does not find it; but he who seeks God, as the primal force original: Urkraft of all forces, might well find everything in God.