who was Nicholas Flamel? was he able to turn gold into lead?

Answer 1

If he really did that he must have been a nut!

Answer 2

Flamel was born near Paris, France around the year 1330. He initially worked as a public scrivener, making copies of documents, and this developed into a career as a bookseller, as he bought and sold manuscripts. In this way he is said to have purchased a mysterious book of 21 pages, which was filled with encoded alchemical symbols and arcane writing, including some texts in Hebrew.

On the way back, he reported that he met a sage, who identified Flamel's book as being a copy of the original Book of Abraham. With this knowledge, over the next few years Flamel and his wife allegedly decoded enough of the book to successfully replicate its recipe for the Philosopher's Stone, producing first silver in 1382, and then gold.

Answer 3

Nicholas, or Nicolas, Flamel was a French alchemist who lived in the 15th century. Though accounts of his life are often taken as mythical, evidence attests to the truth of his existence: his house in Paris, built in 1407, still stands, at 51 rue de Montmorency (IIIe arrondissement), though the building has been converted into a restaurant. However, his character and deeds have arguably proven quite legendary.

Flamel is supposed to have been the most accomplished of the European alchemists. It is claimed that he succeeded at the two magical goals of alchemy supposed to have been the chief aims of that discipline, that he made the Philosopher's Stone that turns lead into gold, and that he and his wife Perenelle achieved immortality.

Flamel is supposed to have received a mysterious book, written by an ancient person known as Abraham the Jew, from a stranger. The book was said to be a copy of the original Book of Abraham. The book was full of Kabbalistic words in Greek and Hebrew. Flamel made it his life's work to understand the text of these lost secrets. He travelled to universities in Andalusia to consult with Jewish and Muslim authorities. In Spain, he met a mysterious master who taught him the art of understanding his manuscript. The "master" was rumored to be an adept, or wise man, who had studied the same teaching as the Three Wise Men of the Bible. The adept's name was Master Canches, who was a practicing physician and on his way to Paris. However, on the way, Master Canches took ill and died. Flamel buried Master Canches in Orleans, and was able to learn translations of Abraham the Jew. This taught Flamel the base secrets of how to perform the Magnum Opus and the formula for transmuting base metals into the state of gold.

After his return from Spain, Flamel was able to become rich: the knowledge that he gained during his travels made him a master of the alchemical art. Flamel became a philanthropist, endowing hospitals and churches with the proceeds from his alchemical work. He caused arcane alchemical signs to be written on a tombstone, which is preserved at the Musée de Cluny in Paris. His tomb is empty.

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Answer 4

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Answer 5

...... Nicholas Flamel is a character in a Harry Potter book. That means he's not real.

Answer 6

You're not to put your faith in "Myth & Folklore" It is pure fiction.
Many facts like N.F. was an alchemist are used to to make it seem real.
IT IS FICTION have fun with it. study your chemestry and the atomic structure. It is impossiable at this time to transmute elements. But you (we) can bombard atoms to change some into other but they will not be stable.
So get real !

Answer 7

Isn't he from Harry Potter? He had something to do with the Sorcerer's Stone.

Answer 8

NO