The experiments carried out by alchemists laid the foundations for modern science. Although alchemy tends to be popularly reduced to the quest to turn base metals into gold, it was based on a far ...

This commentary, which is the fruit of a careful study of texts and literature on the history of alchemy, is provided with an excellent bibliography and is of very considerable value in presenting ...

Catalogue of Latin and vernacular alchemical manuscripts in Great Britain and Ireland : dating from before the XVI century / by Dorothea Waley Singer, assisted by Annie Anderson ...

While up to now it had been assumed that alchemy was not practiced by the Estonian clergy after the Reformation, a manuscript has come to light in Switzerland that appears to prove otherwise. By the ...

But though the manuscript illuminations speak toward a more secular age, they apply medieval alchemy to make gentle nature glitter with lasting fire.

Little Alchemy 2 is all about putting together recipes of different combinations of items and getting results from them, which may sound familiar if you played another browser indie game named ...

For centuries, great thinkers of the Greco-Roman, Islamic, Medieval, and even early Enlightenment worlds investigated the possibilities of alchemy—the process of transforming base metals (i.e ...

THE history of alchemy has a twofold claim on our attention. In the first place, it still has its adherents, who are found not merely in the Orient but also in America, Germany, France, and ...

Potion Craft Alchemy Simulator, a crafting and storefront game with visuals reminiscent of Pentiment, just got a huge new 2.0 update.

Are Taylor Swift's 'The Alchemy' lyrics about Travis Kelce? Here's why fans think it's a love song about her boyfriend.

Isaac Newton, World's Most Famous Alchemist For centuries some of the world’s greatest geniuses struggled in secret to turn base metals into gold. In a sense they succeeded: In their restless quest, ...