John Dastin (or Dastyn or Dastain or Dausten) defended alchemy when it was attacked by Pope John ...

We don't know the identity of Artephius, but he is very early for European alchemy, right at th...

In 200 AD, the land of Spain was occupied and controlled by Rome. When Rome began to decline in 4...

Abu Ali ibn Sīnā, 'Avicenna' in Europe, was the greatest of the Golden Age of Islam intellectuals...

Abū Bakr Muḥammad ibn Zakariyyāʾ al-Rāzī worked about 900 A.D. as a physician and alchemist. His ...

Is alchemy gone? To answer that, say exactly what alchemy was. Alchemy was a complete reliance o...

Another important question. Why study it, if it didn't give us chemists anything important?  I t...

This is a huge question for me. Why did alchemy persist, as an idea, from 300 B.C. to about 1750 ...

There is no date for the death of alchemy. What we see is a long series of changes to the four el...

Isaac Newton was an alchemist. In terms of years of work, he was far more an alchemist than a phy...