The story of the first porcelain made in Europe gives some insight into the older threads, like alchemy, that are woven into modern chemistry, says Roald Hoffmann, a professor of humane letters in the ...

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.

Alchemy in the Middle Ages was more than just the pursuit of gold – it was a blend of science, mysticism, and philosophy that captured the imagination of scholars across Europe. In this episode, we ...

In an experiment that Gregory J. Rummo teaches his general chemistry students, the students make six solutions of known concentrations of Fe(NCS) 2+, aka isothiocyanatoiron (III), in dilute nitric ...

An engraved plate attributed to Augsburg printmaker Martin Engelbrecht in the early eighteenth century depicts an 18th-century engraving of a ragged, impoverished alchemist. Before he was a well-known ...

For centuries, great thinkers of the Greco-Roman, Islamic, Medieval, and even early Enlightenment worlds investigated the possibilities of alchemy—the process of transforming base metals (i.e. lead) ...

THE author says that he has been a devout student of early Indian chemistry from his boyhood. By accident, he came into contact with a Yogi from whom he learnt much more than could be found in the ...