Towards the end of Philip Ball’s marvellous book on the history of alchemy he tells the story of pioneering nuclear physicist ...

Part of the appeal of the Boyle myth may be that it promised a clean break: a waymark at which alchemy was cast aside and chemistry took over. But such changes rarely if ever happen in science, and ...

The elixir of life, the philosopher’s stone, lead into gold — these are some of the alchemical images found in literature from the medieval period through J.K. Rawling’s Harry Potter series. An ...

Spanish surrealist Remedios Varo and her friendship with the eccentric artist Leonora Carrington are the basis of “Alchemy of a Blackbird,” an inventive new historical novel by Cleveland author Claire ...

The things currently thought to be nonscientific such as "immortality immortality" "stone of wise men" or "alchemy" have been seriously studied all over the world. Illustrations and illustrations of ...

Before you cracked open that book (or fired up your e-reader), a slew of decisions had already been made about whether, when and how to publish the work. Many of those decisions are now driven by data ...

Click to share on X (Opens in new window) X Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window) Facebook Wizards of the Coast’s plan is to release a new supplemental Alchemy set four to six weeks after ...