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Now I ask, 'Why cannot copper be freed from this last, and refined to gold?" "Yes," answered the expert, "it can, if one uses atramentum or the philosopher's stone." "What is that?" "Atramentum is copperas." "Ventre-saint-gris! that is Plato's iron! Now I see! Who taught you that?" "I learnt it from the greatest living magician in Wittenberg. His name is Dr.
A painting by Bularchus, which Candaules had purchased for its weight in gold, executed upon the wood of the female larch-tree, and representing the defeat of the Magnesians, evoked universal admiration by the beauty of its design, the truthfulness of the attitude of its figures, and the harmony of its colouring, although the artist had only employed in its production the four primitive colours: Attic ochre, white, Pontic sinopis and atramentum.
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