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George Ripley (alchemist)
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George Ripley was a 15th century famous British alchemist, second to Roger Bacon.
Ripley was learning for twenty years in Italy where he became a great favourite with Pope Innocent VIII.
He returned to England in the year of 1477 and wrote his famous work "The Compound of Alchymy; or, the Twelwe Gates leading to the Discovery of the Philisopher's Stone", dedicated to King Edward IV, highly appreciated by the last.
Being particulary rich, he allowed to the general public some kind of faith in his ability to change iron into gold. For example, Fuller in his "Wothies of England" describes a reputable English gentleman, reported that he saw a track record in the island of Malta which declared that Ripley gave on the annual basis to the knights of that island and the island of Rhodes the enormous sum of one hundred thousand pounds sterling to support their war against Turks.
Ripley used to be also in fame for his twenty-five volumes work on the subject of Alchemy, the most important of which is "Duoceim Partarum" ("the Twelwe Gates"), mentioned above. His elder years Ripley spend as an anchorite near Boston (Yorkshire).
- Charles Mackay. Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds. Office of the National Illustrated Library, London (1852).
