Within a 20-minute walk from Notre Dame Cathedral, in the 3rd arrondissement of Paris, is the oldest house in the city: the house of Nicolas Flamel. If the name rings a vague bell, perhaps it’s ...

To the naked eye, the pendant once looked like solid gold, but anthropologist David Peterson of Idaho State University knows its secret. Using a powerful scanning electron microscope at the Center for ...

ONE of the early Chinese texts on alchemy is the Ts'an T'ung Ch'i of Wei Po Yang, who has been called the father of Chinese alchemy. His treatise has been regarded as the earliest work in the Chinese ...

Can alchemy be described as a protoscience? Do ancient texts with obscure formulas and procedures describe mystic rituals and allegoric visions? Or do they record instructions to carry out real ...

Unearth the hidden world of ancient alchemy with Harminder Gill’s Secrets of Alchemy and Mystical Sciences. This captivating book takes readers on a journey into the mysterious laboratories of ...

Started in 1946, the Journal of the History of Medicine and Allied Sciences is internationally recognized as one of the top publications in its field. The journal's coverage is broad, publishing the ...

The Story of Chemistry from Ancient Alchemy to Nuclear Fission. By Bernard Jaffe. New edition, revised and enlarged. Pp. xiii + 480. (London: Hutchinson's Scientific and Technical Publications, 1949.) ...