Sabine Stuart de Chevalier

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Engraving from the Discours philosophique by Sabine Stuart de Chevalier

Sabine Stuart de Chevalier was a French alchemist. She is the author of Discours Philosophique sur les Trois Principes, Animal, Vegetal and Mineral ou La Clef du Sanctuaire Philosophique (Paris 1781).

She was the wife of the doctor Claude de Chevalier (doctor of the Swiss Guards ). In the dedication of an edition from 1784 (with Claude de Chevalier as author) he describes it as coming from the royal Scottish house of Stuart.

In an engraving of her book, a woman crowns a monk in an alchemical laboratory in which a vial is on an oven, in which man and woman are as homunculi and a child rises between them.

It represents the origin of the three principles sulfur, mercury (Mercury) and salt from the effect of the four elements on one another (fire in the air produces sulfur, air in water mercury and water in earth salt).

literature

  • Jette Anders: 33 alchemists. The hidden side of an ancient science. Past Publishing, Berlin 2016,
  • Un médecin alchimiste au siècle des Lumières: Claude Chevalier, in Sabine Stuart de Chevalier, Discours Philosophique .. , Paris: Èd. JC Bailly, Gutenberg Reprints 1982

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  1. He also published his dissertation physico-médicale sur les causes des plusieurs maladies dangereuses, 1758, and Réflexionsinterestes sur la maladie appelée folie, 1766
  2. ^ 1784 edition, Google Books