Re: Principle of "Like Dissolves Like"

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Dear John Schutkeker:

"John Schutkeker" <jschutkeker@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in
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Listen ... it's accepted by some people, in some
situations. It may have exceptions, be a tautology,
be vague or only be appropriate for beginners.
Those things are unimportant to my question, and
no matter whether they are true or false, the
"principle" still has an origin. I'd like to know what
that origin is.

It predates what we have for written history, or hadn't you
caught that?m Be satisfied that it was "probably" observed by
alchemists, and passed on to aprentices via word of mouth. So
whatever we get now is third hand...

When you use your time machine to find out, find out the origin
of the wheel, would you?

Ok, but that task has a lower priority than buying the early issues of
all the rarest comics.

I was under the impression that there is an adequate, if incomplete,
history of the great alchemists and their achievements. Some time ago,
somebody posted the name of a history book covering that topic, and I'm
thinking that maybe I should track it down.

Are you saying that, in spite of that, the origins of this particular
rule of thumb have been lost to posterity.
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