Philosopher's stone (was:Significance of missing line/Hurt/Comfort

[Olia Lukoe]

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Hi.
I am a Mongol. I’d never heard the term ‘Sorcerer's Stone’ before Harry Potter. I have known about Philosopher's Stone since my childhood because it was mentioned in chemistry textbook for 10-years. It was also in school-books for Middle Ages history (high-school) and a lot of children’s fiction books used that myth before JKR. Just read Dumas.

And Philosopher's Stone has had nothing with Kant. In Middle Ages ‘Philosopher's’ meant ‘scientific’ or ‘artificial’.

Sorry for my English.

D.Ally