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Nicolas Flamel

    Nicolas Flamel, francouzský písař a prodejce rukopisů, si po své smrti vybudoval pověst alchymisty, zejména díky své údajné práci na kameni mudrců. Navzdory mnoha legendám a pochybnostem o jeho existenci, které vedly k domněnkám, že jde o literární fikci 17. století, byly nalezeny oficiální dokumenty z jeho doby. Ačkoli jeho díla jsou stále předmětem sporů, nalezené dokumenty potvrzují jeho život a manželství s Perenelle.

    Nicolas Flamel
    Nicholas Flamel and the Philosopher's Stone
    Vysvětlení hieroglyfických obrazů
    • Nicolas Flamel was a successful scrivener and manuscript-seller who developed a posthumous reputation as an alchemist due to his reputed work on the philosopher's stone. An alchemical book published in 1624 as Exposition of the Hieroglyphical Figures was attributed to Flamel. It is a collection of designs purportedly commissioned by Flamel for a tympanum at the Cimeti re des Innocents in Paris, long disappeared at the time the work was published. Some considered Flamel the most accomplished of the European alchemists. The essence of his reputation is that he succeeded at the two magical goals of alchemy -- that he made the Philosopher's Stone which turns lead into gold, and that he and his wife Perenelle achieved immortality.

      Nicholas Flamel and the Philosopher's Stone
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