Аннотация:ISBN 978-619-7408-53-9
In most works the origin of alchemy is considered proceeding from the word ‘alchemy’ while it can be regarded as an artificial term.The article distinguishes between the word and the term ‘alchim’. As the term ‘alchemy’ is not the genesis of a word from some language but an artificial construction, one of the representation of the number ‘π’ (Ludolph's number).