Home About us Editorial board Search Ahead of print Current issue Archives Submit article Instructions Subscribe Contacts Login 
Users Online: 1130 | Home Print this page Email this page Small font size Default font size Increase font size
ARTICLE
Year : 1988  |  Volume : 7  |  Issue : 3  |  Page : 134-138

Lead and mercury each as prime matter in alchemy


SD, 34 - Block A, North Nazimabad, Karachi - 33, Pakistan

Correspondence Address:
S Mahdihassan
SD, 34 - Block A, North Nazimabad, Karachi - 33
Pakistan
Login to access the Email id

Source of Support: None, Conflict of Interest: None


Rights and PermissionsRights and Permissions

Prime Matter is matter-cum-energy. The first substance identified as such was lead. When gently heated it becomes red and redness means soul or energy so that lead was potentially red or soul-like and as such dual natured. Mercury also becomes red and can return to white metal. It was thus dual natured and was the second substance recognized as Prime Matter. First lead alone and then lead and mercury were considered as the source of all metals.


[PDF]*
Print this article     Email this article
 Next article
 Previous article
 Table of Contents

 Similar in PUBMED
   Search Pubmed for
   Search in Google Scholar for
 Citation Manager
 Access Statistics
 Reader Comments
 Email Alert *
 Add to My List *
 * Requires registration (Free)
 

 Article Access Statistics
    Viewed736    
    Printed33    
    Emailed0    
    PDF Downloaded63    
    Comments [Add]    

Recommend this journal