Alchemy

Alchemy is an early protoscientific practice combining elements of chemistry, physics, astrology, art, semiotics, metallurgy, medicine, and mysticism. These practices were usually used outside of what is now known as the scientific method, however, alchemy can be regarded as the precursor of the modern science of chemistry prior to the formulation of the scientific method.

External links

• Alchemy prime source documents online
• Hermetic Research is a Portal on serious Hermetic study and discussion.
• The Key Modern operative work
• Dictionary of the History of Ideas: Alchemy
• The Story of Alchemy and the Beginnings of Chemistry, 1913, from Project Gutenberg
• The Link Betwixt the Planets and Metals -- Alchemy & Astrology -- From Skyscript.co.uk
• The Alchemist Online Magazine
• Alchemical Symbols: A Visual Interpretation of the Table of Elements
• Alchemy: Ancient and Modern, published in 1922 by H. Stanley Redgrove."A brief account of the alchemistic doctrines, and their relations, to mysticism on the one hand, and to recent discoveries in physical science on the other hand; together with some particulars regarding the lives and teachings of the most noted alchemists."
• Alchemy: Aristotle and Alchemists: "...the chemical skills of ancient people and the elements that were known to them, the ancient Greeks' speculations on atoms and alchemy, its goals and its accomplishments,and its elements before comparing and contrasting alchemy and chemistry."
• Skeptical Chemists: from alchemy to chemistry, tracing the contributions of Paracelsus
• A Brief Introduction to Alchemy
• Turning Lead into Gold (in particle accelerators)
• An Alchemists Glossary of Terms, Definitions, Formulas & Concoctions
• The Alchemy Museum in Kutna Hora : World's First Museum Dedicated to Alchemy in All Its Aspects