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- Williams seems to lament the fact that her church has moved from the alchemistical visions of Joseph Smith to the pragmatism of Brigham Young.
- Holmes Welch proposes the " fangshi " were among those whom Sima Qian described as " unable to practice " Zou Yan's arts, and says while Zou " gradually acquired alchemistical stature, he himself knew nothing of the art.
- The Taoists in their alchemistical researches may have discovered such a mixture . " The French sinologist Berthold Laufer ( 1915 : 182-183, 187 ) refutes Forke's " downright literary concoction " of " yangsui " as " burning-glass " because Wang Chong's " wushi " 擭體 " five stones " reference was a literary allusion to the N黽a legend's " wuseshi " 擭r傮w " five-colored stone; multicolored stone ", and because the Zhou Chinese did not have a word for " glass ", which was unknown to them.