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You find on ours, three test tubes that are yellow, red, and a bluish green. Why do young children, one of the first words—I don’t know if it’s one of the first words, but certainly by the age of five, they start asking why, how, what? It’s an icosahedron, twenty-sided. I—well, I said, “Well, I think art is when someone is inspired by what they see in the world, to express something physically in the world.”And I was also asked, “What is alchemy?” Which, a question that makes anybody stutter. If you use alchemical apparatus—furnaces and condensers and distillers—to separate out mercury and sulfur, get out all the extraneous crap, if I may say, and you’ll have mercury and sulfur in pure form. Kraus, Rare Books and Manuscripts, one of the world's leading dealers in rare books and manuscripts from the Middle Ages to the Enlightenment. Now recognized as the ancestor of modern chemistry, alchemy is a mysterious and often misunderstood blend of science, philosophy, and spirituality. And in this respect, we’re standing right now in front of a very long and intensely drawn and painted scroll called the Ripley Scroll, which dates from about 1700, I think. And it—and it’s exhibited against a book that is opened to a page in which there’s an image of, I suppose, the same form. Tell us how that came to be, and how do we see that here, standing in front of this case with things related to the so-called stone of the philosophers?BRAFMAN: Well, certainly, alchemy becomes associated with creativity much earlier in parts of Asia and in Africa. You could wield it in the service of human benefits.CUNO: You write that the Sicilian-Greek philosopher Empedocles proposed that all matter was composed of four elements. They could’ve been simultaneously created or explored.BRAFMAN: Egyptologists and Sinologists are in a constant argument about whether the Egyptians invented the first synthetic pigment or whether the Chinese invented the first synthetic pigment.CUNO: Now, I think you said that alchemy became associated with creativity during the Medieval and Renaissance eras in the West. Tell us where we see alchemy at work in this beautiful, beautiful painting.BRAFMAN: Well, the context for it is that the Egyptians are credited by many as the first culture where their chemists created the first synthetic paint pigment of taking different materials and combining them to get a color. But it was—it’s attributed to Leonardo.CUNO: Yeah. Prof. Dr. David Brafman. And the engraving, which is a 1687 Swiss engraving, I guess, it’s called BRAFMAN: Yeah. What was the nature of creation, in a sense. And in fact, this—the facsimile that we have in the show of what’s actually a seventeenth century woodcut from 1637 of a Chinese work that’s called And in fact, a Chinese alchemist named Wei Boyang in the first century, figures out that one could use sulfur as the main ingredient in what he called CUNO: So by that story, you’re letting us know that alchemy, as a practice, was evident in China almost as early as it was in the Mediterranean. It’s filled with cryptic imagery. Now just down the way from that rock crystal is a very beautiful second century Romano-Egyptian mummy portrait of an aristocratic woman.
You find on ours, three test tubes that are yellow, red, and a bluish green. Why do young children, one of the first words—I don’t know if it’s one of the first words, but certainly by the age of five, they start asking why, how, what? It’s an icosahedron, twenty-sided. I—well, I said, “Well, I think art is when someone is inspired by what they see in the world, to express something physically in the world.”And I was also asked, “What is alchemy?” Which, a question that makes anybody stutter. If you use alchemical apparatus—furnaces and condensers and distillers—to separate out mercury and sulfur, get out all the extraneous crap, if I may say, and you’ll have mercury and sulfur in pure form. Kraus, Rare Books and Manuscripts, one of the world's leading dealers in rare books and manuscripts from the Middle Ages to the Enlightenment. Now recognized as the ancestor of modern chemistry, alchemy is a mysterious and often misunderstood blend of science, philosophy, and spirituality. And in this respect, we’re standing right now in front of a very long and intensely drawn and painted scroll called the Ripley Scroll, which dates from about 1700, I think. And it—and it’s exhibited against a book that is opened to a page in which there’s an image of, I suppose, the same form. Tell us how that came to be, and how do we see that here, standing in front of this case with things related to the so-called stone of the philosophers?BRAFMAN: Well, certainly, alchemy becomes associated with creativity much earlier in parts of Asia and in Africa. You could wield it in the service of human benefits.CUNO: You write that the Sicilian-Greek philosopher Empedocles proposed that all matter was composed of four elements. They could’ve been simultaneously created or explored.BRAFMAN: Egyptologists and Sinologists are in a constant argument about whether the Egyptians invented the first synthetic pigment or whether the Chinese invented the first synthetic pigment.CUNO: Now, I think you said that alchemy became associated with creativity during the Medieval and Renaissance eras in the West. Tell us where we see alchemy at work in this beautiful, beautiful painting.BRAFMAN: Well, the context for it is that the Egyptians are credited by many as the first culture where their chemists created the first synthetic paint pigment of taking different materials and combining them to get a color. But it was—it’s attributed to Leonardo.CUNO: Yeah. Prof. Dr. David Brafman. And the engraving, which is a 1687 Swiss engraving, I guess, it’s called BRAFMAN: Yeah. What was the nature of creation, in a sense. And in fact, this—the facsimile that we have in the show of what’s actually a seventeenth century woodcut from 1637 of a Chinese work that’s called And in fact, a Chinese alchemist named Wei Boyang in the first century, figures out that one could use sulfur as the main ingredient in what he called CUNO: So by that story, you’re letting us know that alchemy, as a practice, was evident in China almost as early as it was in the Mediterranean. It’s filled with cryptic imagery. Now just down the way from that rock crystal is a very beautiful second century Romano-Egyptian mummy portrait of an aristocratic woman.