
HoP 388 - Just Add Salt - Paracelsus and Alchemy
History of Philosophy Without Any Gaps
The History of Alchemy
There was good reason for pre modern scientists to believe in alchemy. While alchemists couldn't actually make gold or silver, they could do a lot of other things. The possibility of alchemy was well founded in more general theories of the four elements. For aristotle and his many followers, all bodily substances were ultimately made from the four elements - air, earth, fire and water.
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