Few intellectual traditions have been as misunderstood, romanticized, and ultimately as consequential as alchemy. Most people dismiss it as a fool’s errand — a pre-scientific fantasy in which deluded ...

What Newton devoted more time and passion to than physics or mathematics.It was alchemy.I previously wrote about how Newton ...

A new permanent exhibit at Philadelphia’s Science History Institute looks at the contributions of alchemists from the 15th to 19th centuries. Exhibit curator Elisabeth Berry Drago examining "The ...

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