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MEMOIRS OF EXTRAORDINARY POPULAR DELUSIONS.

BY CHARLES MACKAY.

AUTHOR OF THE THAMES AND ITS TRIBUTARIES," "THE HOPE OF THE WORLD," ETC.

"Il est bon de connaitre les delires de l'esprit humain. Chaque peuple a ses folies plus ou moins grossieres."

Millot

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VOL. III.

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CONTENTS OF THE THIRD VOLUME.

BOOK I.

INTRODUCTION

THE ALCHYMISTS; or, Searchers for the Philosopher's Stone and the Water of Life

PART I. -- History of Alchymy from the earliest periods to the

Fifteenth Century. -- Pretended Antiquity of the Art. -- Geber. -- Alfarabi. -- Avicenna. -- Albertus Magnus. -- Thomas Aquinas. -- Artephius. -- Alain de Lisle. -- Arnold de Villeneuve. -- Pietro d'Apone. -- Raymond Lulli. -- Roger Bacon. -- Pope John XXII. -- Jean de Meung.-- Nicholas Flamel. -- George Ripley. -- Basil Valentine. -- Bernard of Treves. -- Trithemius. -- The Marechal de Rays. -- Jacques Coeur. -- Inferior Adepts.

PART II.--Progress of the Infatuation during the Sixteenth and

Seventeenth Centuries. -- Augurello. -- Cornelius Agrippa. -- Paracelsus. -- George Agricola. -- Denys Zachaire. -- Dr. Dee and Edward Kelly. -- The Cosmopolite. -- Sendivogius. -- The Rosicrucians. -- Michael Mayer. -- Robert Fludd. -- Jacob Bohmen. -- John Heydn. -- Joseph Francis Borri. -- Alchymical Writers of the Sev

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