Historians of science began deciphering alchemical texts—which wasn’t easy. The alchemists, obsessed with secrecy, deliberately described their experiments in metaphorical terms laden with ...

Much of the oldest knowledge survived only in fragmentary manuscripts. These traces of old alchemical texts were frequently combined or copied down incorrectly, so the information became garbled ...

Have teams read the passage and then use the description of the common alchemical symbols to create their own interpretation of the text. When teams have finished interpreting the passage ...

The alchemy text will be available in an online repository for those interested in the history of modern chemistry, according to James Voelkel, the CHF's curator of rare books. You may like World ...

ENGLISH scholars first became interested in the translation of alchemical texts in the twelfth century, when they participated with the celebrated Gerard of Cremona and other continental scholars ...

Early pictorial representations of their work as healers were restricted to alchemical texts and manuals. Over time, artists began to depict them in paintings, such as The Medical Alchemist (see image ...

(Credit: Nicku/Shutterstock) Isaac Newton, famed scientist and alchemist. Lawrence Principe was sorting through a collection of old chemistry books at the Chemical Heritage Foundation in Philadelphia ...

Out tumbled a load of books, including The Triumphal Chariot of Antimony, an alchemical text. Advertisement Thölde further claimed that a persecuted monk and secret alchemist named Basil ...

The denizens of the lab re-create old recipes from alchemy-era texts—primarily of the sixteenth century—and this brings them into contact with some unusual ingredients. On a recent Monday ...