The name of a supposed fifteenth-century Benedictine monk under whom a series of alchemical books appeared from 1599, the most famous being the Triumphal Chariot of Antimony (1604), which made antimony the great medicine of the chemists.

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  1. Antimony, plate: Stibnite
    AntimonyThe metallic element and its compounds.

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