0 a science studied in the Middle Ages which involved trying to change ordinary metals into gold. -- thuật giả kim
By what alchemy, at what point and when was the change made?
Later in life, his views changed even further, and he started comparing astrology and alchemy with ghosts guiding human fantasy in its desire to learn the true causes of things.
He then experimented with various combinations and modifications of the material until, as he puts it in the published programme notes, 'an interesting ' 'sonic alchemy' ' was found'.
Noise had become a universal anti-music, but its new circulation was dislocated from its creative modes of listening, and its genre-defying alchemy was lost in translation.
One attached no weight to it, if need be one saw smaller or lager detours which like astrology and alchemy went away from the actual goal.
The fundamental and fatal error of alchemy and incantation consists in the mistaken belief that these proportions can be reproduced in the laboratory or in the field.
However, this fantasy of chivalrous old soldiers and gentlemen rallying around their childish representative proves unnecessary: the mystical alchemy of the ancestral throne has matured the girl overnight.
Nuclear reprogramming - alchemy or analysis?
