Recommendable! The origins of chemistry and medicine! The early thirst for knowledge! Philosophers stone! Hermaphrodite! Quest for immortality and eternal life! The secret of life and creation! Monks and friars were also among the alchemists, e.g. famous Roger Bacon (reinventor of gun powder in the West after China)! đź‘€
Persecuted by the Pope. A popular Renaissance profession. How about Theophrastus Bombastus a.k.a. Paracelsus? Homunculus!
Isaac Newton was a devoted alchemist! Did he even suffer an episode of mercury poisoning?
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