Was alchemy science or magic? Perhaps both, depending on whom you ask. Medieval alchemists sought to transmute base metals into gold.
50 months ago

Alchemists resembled learned theologians poring over the gospels, wary of mangling a single meaning and so missing or...
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'Historians of alchemy', wrote Herbert Butterfield in 1949, 'seem to become tinctured with the kind of lunacy they set out to describe.
69 months ago

the university eventually decided to auction off what was left—Newton's manuscripts on alchemy and theology...
106 months ago

When Isaac Newton died on March 31, 1727 at the age of eighty-four, he left no will but a houseful of possessions, a fat bank account, and a clutch of greedy...
84 months ago

In his 1979 book The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, Douglas Adams introduced the concept of the Infinite Improbability Drive,...
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In her new book, economist Mariana Mazzucato explodes the myth that wealth is created solely by a select few trailblazing entrepreneurs,...
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On April 16 1872, a group of men sat drinking in the Barley Mow pub near Wellington in Somerset in the UK's south-west.
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Public Lecture by Professor Lord Mervyn King, former Governor of the Bank of England and School Professor at LSE.
104 months ago

Historians of science have always assumed that Newton's interest in alchemy was motivated by abstract philosophical or religious objectives.
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