Kanada

-600 BC

-Gujarat, India

-Vedic Period

-Rasavadam

-Added fifth aspect – Aether – matter that fills universe about terrestrial sphere

-Explains light travel and gravity

-Still debated

  -First idea of atom – independent from greeks

    -atom is indivisible, indestructible, invisible to naked eye

  -Vaisheshika – one of 6 ortho. Schools of Hinduism from India

  -writes Vaisheshika Sutra

  -life in temporary life is futile

  -understanding of god frees individual from karma

  -9 sections – 4 main ideas

  -9 classes of realities: space, time, direction, mind, infinity of souls, earth, air, fire, water

  -everything is made of atoms that connect together to form molecules

  -individual souls are eternal and only live in material body short time

  - seven categories of experience: generality activity, substance, quality, particularity, inherence, non-existence

Dzou Yen (Zou Yan)

  -305-240 BC

  -China

  -Spring and Autumn period of Zhou Dynasty in state of Qi

  -longest lasting dynasty (1046-256 BC)

  -gave birth to Confucianism and Taoism

  -philosopher, historian, politician, naturalist, geographer, and astrologer

  -Five Chinese elements: wood, water, fire, earth, and metal

  -Yin and Yang

  -First to transmute base metals into noble metals

  -unable to be replicated

  -Liu Hsiang tried, failed, fired, sentenced to death

Zosimos of Panopolis

  -300 AD in Panopolis, Egypt

  -wrote oldest surviving alchemy texts; some still being discovered (1995)

  -Influenced by Hermetic teachings and Gnosticism

  -composition of waters, movement, growth, embodying and disembodying, drawing the spirits from the bodies and bonding the spirits within bodies

  -transmutations must:

  -reflect inner process of purification

  -balance and equivalent exchange

  -Visions

  -meeting god Ion

  -Self-sacrifice leads to creation

  -Carl Jung cites as first homunculus idea

  -Ouroboros

Nicolas Flamel

  -1327

  -Paris, France

  -Attended Beauxbatons

  -Met Perenelle – married in 1368

  -very rich, donated to churches and hostels

  -skilled alchemist, worked with Nicolas

  -late 1300s – craft Philosopher's Stone

  -base metals into gold

  -cure illness

  -Elixir of Life

  -reviving dead plants

  -turning crystals into diamonds

  -creating perpetually burning lamps

  -flexible glass

  -ability to create a homunculus

  -Created essential rules and ethics of Medieval Alchemy

  -Autumn Maddox (HoM) is descendent ono father's side

Philippus Aureolus Theophrastus Bombastus von Hohenheim (Paraclesus)

  -1493

  -medicine and philosophy

  -Education

  -St. Paul's Abbey in Lavanttal

  -Uni of Basel for med

  -Dr. from Uni of Ferrara

  -Magical @ Hogwarts? – descendant of Slytherin

  -Wandering physician

  -Discovered Parseltongue

  -Named Zinc

  -Alphabet of the Magi  https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/h5BHMBHB9WzIpLIVHchDeA9n3wIdz9Zc4_BlOfnFBJ3pzuKGZKabl_Id2dTT_5hcMPwwVCvT7BvB1yXPFR1VuckaMhVsUbg3U-BW59GdO8cSEEvBomX5yALbclSl3ucMIRBaiL4

  -used for angelic names

  -used to enchant items

  -laudanum – opium pain reducer

  -Psychotherapy – first to mention unconscious

  -Harmony of Elements and Organs - every human needs balance of minerals and metals in body http://i.imgur.com/7gZTRdi.jpg

  -sickness and health rely on harmony of man and nature