Jacques Lagniet, “Recueil des plus illustres proverbes, divises en trois livres…” (1657-1663), engraving, on view in The Art of Alchemy (courtesy the Getty Research Institute, Los Angeles) The “Great ...

"The original Japanese edition ... was published six years ago. About a quarter of the text was devoted to an outline of Western alchemy for the benefit of Japanese readers. In the English version ...

The Chemical Heritage Foundation wants to set the record straight about alchemy. The medieval practice, often perceived as a dark art or pseudoscience, actually helped form the process of scientific ...

BALTIMORE — An alchemical recipe, kept secret for 400 years, hangs on a wall in the history department at Johns Hopkins University. The message is hidden in a picture of a large and muscular dragon.

What do a blue glass necklace from the third or fourth century excavated in southern Russia and Jeff Koons’s shiny polyurethane resin Dom Pérignon Balloon Venus (2013) have in common, aside from the ...

THE history of alchemy should properly begin with a survey of the technical arts of the ancient nations. Archæological discoveries show that these arts were highly developed about-3500 B.C., so that ...