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38 John Dastin and the Pope
John Dastin (or Dastyn or Dastain or Dausten) defended alchemy when it was attacked by Pope John ...
31.2 Artephius
We don't know the identity of Artephius, but he is very early for European alchemy, right at th...
31 Andalusian Spain and the Transfer of Philosophical Thought
In 200 AD, the land of Spain was occupied and controlled by Rome. When Rome began to decline in 4...
30 ibn Sīnā (Avicenna)
Abu Ali ibn Sīnā, 'Avicenna' in Europe, was the greatest of the Golden Age of Islam intellectuals...
29 al-Rāzī
Abū Bakr Muḥammad ibn Zakariyyāʾ al-Rāzī worked about 900 A.D. as a physician and alchemist. His ...
62 Alchemy Today
Is alchemy gone? To answer that, say exactly what alchemy was. Alchemy was a complete reliance o...
61 What Did Alchemy Give Us?
Another important question. Why study it, if it didn't give us chemists anything important? I t...
60 Why Did Alchemy Last?
This is a huge question for me. Why did alchemy persist, as an idea, from 300 B.C. to about 1750 ...
59 The End of Alchemy
There is no date for the death of alchemy. What we see is a long series of changes to the four el...
58 Isaac Newton
Isaac Newton was an alchemist. In terms of years of work, he was far more an alchemist than a phy...
57 Robert Boyle
If we didn't have a Robert Boyle, we'd have needed to invent one. Boyle was the son of the wealth...
56 Elias Ashmole
Elias Ashmole, like his contemporary Robert Boyle, bridges alchemy and chemistry. He loved old th...
55 George Starkey
George Starkey was an American, Harvard-educated, who moved to England in 1650 to be closer to th...
54 John French
We recently read some blogs here "translated by J.F.M.D." This is John French, M.D., Paracelcian ...
53 Early Science
We have reached the point in the history of science that events considered fundamental to the dev...
52 Emblem Books
With the advent of printing, 1440, and etching to make sturdy images, came the emblem books. Prin...
51 Gabriel Plattes
Relatively unknown person, published a short leaflet with a long title: A Caveat for Alchymists, ...
50 Robert Fludd
Robert Fludd was a great defender of Rosicrucianism, a successful London physician, the punching ...
49 The Brotherhood of the Rosy Cross
The Brotherhood of the Rosy Cross, or Rosicrucians, was founded in Germany in 1614 by the publica...
48 Petrus Ramus
Peter Rami, or in Latin, Petrus Ramus, was a student at the Collège de Navarre in 1536. He starte...