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Medieval Science (Radio Edit)
You're Dead to Me
The History of Alchemy
Is alchemy specifically about turning things into gold? Or is it just more magic in the wider sense? That is a fabulous question. You have hit on the historiography of the discipline right there. So, at the point that it gives us, alchemy is the forerunner of modern chemistry because they develop a huge suite of techniques. And so, it creates and develops new techniques which go into later chemistry. These alchemical treatises are really hard to interpret because there's these different layers to them.
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