His ideas and experiments on the nature of minerals and other substances are voluminously set forth in his Physica Subterranea (Frankfort, 1669); an edition of this, published at Leipzig in 1703, contains two supplements (Experimentum chymicum novum and Demonstratio Philosophica), proving the truth and possibility of transmuting metals, Experimentum novum ac curiosum de minera arenaria perpetua, the paper on timepieces already mentioned and also Specimen Becherianum, a summary of his doctrines by Stahl, who in the preface acknowledges indebtedness to him in the words Becheriana sunt quae profero. [Please select]
0
What a revelation it was, this transmuting power, which could change mortal dross into the coin of immortal wealth. [Please select]
0
No doubt his heart had been gradually losing its human substance and transmuting itself into insensible metal, but had now softened back again into flesh. [Please select]
0
But reputation is a great magician in transmuting heresy into accepted teaching. [Please select]
0
A curious light, that seemed to rise from below rather than to descend from above, was transmuting the whiteness of the sands. [Please select]
0
The deepening shroud of evening was now upon all, transmuting white and yellow walls alike to a pearly greyness. [Please select]
0
No doubt his heart had been gradually losing its human substance, and transmuting itself into insensible metal, but had now softened back again into flesh. [Please select]
0
No doubt, his heart had been gradually losing its human substance, and transmuting itself into insensible metal, but had now softened back again into flesh. [Please select]
Do you have a better example in your mind? Please submit your sentence!