Alchemy was a form of early modern chemistry. Alchemists sought to create the so-called philosophers' stone in order to, among other goals, change metals such as lead into gold. For Newton and other ...

As a new exhibition looks at the concept of the loop, Joobin Bekhrad discovers how one symbol had different meanings in ancient Egypt, Hindu mythology and Renaissance alchemy. It is perhaps fitting ...

What secret alchemical knowledge could be so important it required sophisticated encryption? The setting was Amsterdam, 2019. A conference organized by the Society for the History of Alchemy and ...