Although alchemy tends to be popularly reduced to the quest to turn base metals into gold, it was based on a far more complex blend of occultism, natural philosophy, chemistry, and metal working.

Future analyses of additional samples may uncover more about this enigmatic scientist who bridged the worlds of astronomy and ...

This collection of links explores the history of alchemy, the connection of alchemy to modern day chemistry, and some fun activities to experience a taste of the alchemist’s life. This activity is ...

Modern chemistry began to emerge from alchemy in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, thanks to scholars such as Boyle and Lavoisier, leading to rapid advances in the following two centuries.

before the local sections of the Institute of Chemistry and the Society of Chemical Industry, Prof. John Read of the University of St. Andrews gave an account of alchemy in Scotland. James IV of ...