How Are We Conjuring Your Image Into My Living Room?

John Winthrop Jr. was an alchemist and so close to home in early American history. He loved the Connecticut colony when he first came to it because there's a high concentration of mica in the soil, which at that time they thought might lead to silver mines. The methodology behind his practice informed him to a level where he wasn't persuade by the superstitions of the Puritan and his colony.

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