The very earliest work on chemical processes and transformations was done in the ancient world, in Egypt,...
Alchemy
Alchemy was an art, a scientific and technological project that foreshadowed modern chemistry. Alchemy, with its cryptic...
Van Helmont was an heir of Paracelsus’s thought and movement who went to lengths in later years...
What tools would an alchemist use in the quest to transmute other elements into gold? David Teniers...
Chinese alchemists developed methods for manipulating minerals and altering the state of substances. Introduction Most of us...