Alchemy in Byzantine times was a long intellectual tradition blending Ancient Greek science, Egyptian symbolism, and ...

What has long been seen as a deluded effort to turn base metals into gold is being reassessed by researchers as a serious precursor to chemistry in which women were heavily involved. About 20 years ...

Back in Park City, Weinman set up a small home laboratory. His practice was personal at first — equal parts spiritual discipline and scientific experimentation. He later traveled to Washington state ...

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The pursuit that obsessed some of the world's greatest geniuses for centuries—alchemy and its quest for the "Philosopher's Stone" that would transform lead and other base metals into gold—is the topic ...