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Page 264
... gold foil . The success of the Ashanti kingdom depended on the trade in gold not only with Europeans at the coast but with the Muslim north . Gold dust was the currency , weighed against small brass weights ( Figure 23 ) that were often ...
... gold foil . The success of the Ashanti kingdom depended on the trade in gold not only with Europeans at the coast but with the Muslim north . Gold dust was the currency , weighed against small brass weights ( Figure 23 ) that were often ...
Page 433
... gold and long life . Mercury , which was so vital to alchemy everywhere , is first mentioned in the 4th- to 3rd - century- BC Arthaśāstra , about the same time it is encountered in China and in the West . Evidence of the idea of trans ...
... gold and long life . Mercury , which was so vital to alchemy everywhere , is first mentioned in the 4th- to 3rd - century- BC Arthaśāstra , about the same time it is encountered in China and in the West . Evidence of the idea of trans ...
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... gold making still persisted al- though overshadowed by this development . In the 15th century it entered its most picturesque period , for then the personal reminiscences of alchemists began to ap- pear . Most famous was the Paris ...
... gold making still persisted al- though overshadowed by this development . In the 15th century it entered its most picturesque period , for then the personal reminiscences of alchemists began to ap- pear . Most famous was the Paris ...
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