[35] Roger of Wendover’s Flowers of Hist., s.a. 1196. The story is an addition made to the original by Matthew Paris.
[36] Spiegel, Anecdota Pâlica (1845), p. 53.
[37] Benfy, Pantschatantra (1859), ii. p. 128.
[38] Cf. Benfy, op. cit. i. p. 214.
[39] Bababathra, 74, 6.
[40] I said at the beginning of this article that the alchemists were right in believing the Philosopher’s Stone to be complex, made up of many metals. We know now that the germ idea of the stone is the sun, and the spectroscope allows us to analyse the sun’s light and discover in the solar atmosphere a multitude of metals and ingredients, in fusion.