Alchemical authors frequently employed a riddling style in the attempt both to reveal the text to clever readers and to hide it from those whom they considered unworthy. Starkey's text is no ...

Historians of science began deciphering alchemical texts—which wasn’t easy. The alchemists, obsessed with secrecy, deliberately described their experiments in metaphorical terms laden with ...

Researchers discovered glass and ceramic shards containing traces of nine chemical elements, some of which hint at Brahe’s alchemical practices. The Danish scientist Tycho Brahe, who lived ...

A recent archaeobotanical study has uncovered an unexpected discovery in the heart of Europe: the oldest evidence of vanilla ...

In this course, we will use metaphors derived from ancient alchemy to elucidate deep structures in the creative imagination, using alchemical symbolism as a springboard to expand our own capacities as ...

Courtesy Pace Gallery Kylie Manning’s paintings are forged by a kind of alchemical tension between celestial and terrestrial forces that causes her pigments to gravitate and fluctuate across the ...