Charles Mackay (
1814-
1889), from
Memoirs of Extraordinary Popular Delusions And The Madness Of Crowds
Contemporary with
Albertus Magnus was Alain de Lisle, of
Flanders, who was named, from his great learning, the "universal doctor." He was thought to possess a knowledge of all the sciences, and, like
Artephius, to have discovered the
elixir vitae. He became one of the
friars of the
abbey of
Citeaux, and died in
1298, aged about one hundred and ten years. It was said of him, that he was at the point of death when in his fiftieth year; but that the fortunate discovery of the elixir enabled him to add sixty years to his existence. He wrote a commentary on the prophecies of
Merlin.
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