The Secret Magic of Alchemy with Leonard Nimoy

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)! 👀

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?

Alchemists After Synthetic New Life

Well Known Alchemists’s Goals

Many people are aware that alchemists tried find the stone of philosophers or to make gold from other, lesser substances.

Takwin

It appears that famous alchemists like Jabir ibn Hayyan (721-821 AD) tried among other things to create life in the laboratory.

The Bible On This Subject

There is the story of Golem. In the Talmud (Tractate Sanhedrin 38b), Adam was initially created as a golem.

Relevance

Now, in the 21st century humans have reached a point were creating new life has become a possibility within reach.