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38 John Dastin and the Pope

History of Alchemy

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

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31.2 Artephius

History of Alchemy

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

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31 Andalusian Spain and the Transfer of Philosophical Thought

History of Alchemy

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

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30 ibn Sīnā (Avicenna)

History of Alchemy

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

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29 al-Rāzī

History of Alchemy

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

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62 Alchemy Today

History of Alchemy

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

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61 What Did Alchemy Give Us?

History of Alchemy

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

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60 Why Did Alchemy Last?

History of Alchemy

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

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59 The End of Alchemy

History of Alchemy

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

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58 Isaac Newton

History of Alchemy

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

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57 Robert Boyle

History of Alchemy

If we didn't have a Robert Boyle, we'd have needed to invent one. Boyle was the son of the wealth...

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56 Elias Ashmole

History of Alchemy

Elias Ashmole, like his contemporary Robert Boyle, bridges alchemy and chemistry. He loved old th...

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55 George Starkey

History of Alchemy

George Starkey was an American, Harvard-educated, who moved to England in 1650 to be closer to th...

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54 John French

History of Alchemy

We recently read some blogs here "translated by J.F.M.D." This is John French, M.D., Paracelcian ...

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53 Early Science

History of Alchemy

We have reached the point in the history of science that events considered fundamental to the dev...

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52 Emblem Books

History of Alchemy

With the advent of printing, 1440, and etching to make sturdy images, came the emblem books. Prin...

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51 Gabriel Plattes

History of Alchemy

Relatively unknown person, published a short leaflet with a long title: A Caveat for Alchymists, ...

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50 Robert Fludd

History of Alchemy

Robert Fludd was a great defender of Rosicrucianism, a successful London physician, the punching ...

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49 The Brotherhood of the Rosy Cross

History of Alchemy

The Brotherhood of the Rosy Cross, or Rosicrucians, was founded in Germany in 1614 by the publica...

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48 Petrus Ramus

History of Alchemy

Peter Rami, or in Latin, Petrus Ramus, was a student at the Collège de Navarre in 1536. He starte...

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