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Nicolas Flamel Knihy
Nicolas Flamel, francúzsky pisár a predajca rukopisov, si po svojej smrti vybudoval povesť alchymistu, najmä vďaka svojej údajnej práci na kameni mudrcov. Napriek mnohým legendám a pochybnostiam o jeho existencii, ktoré viedli k domnienkam, že ide o literárnu fikciu 17. storočia, boli nájdené oficiálne dokumenty z jeho doby. Hoci jeho diela sú stále predmetom sporov, nájdené dokumenty potvrdzujú jeho život a manželstvo s Perenelle.
Nicholas Flamel and the Philosopher's Stone
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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.