excellent exploration of this idea in the wonderful history book “The Secrets of Alchemy”. the author actually followed some alchemical recipes which were thou

excellent exploration of this idea in the wonderful history book “The Secrets of Alchemy”. the author actually followed some alchemical recipes which were thought to be nonsense. yet under the right conditions (using iron implements, bad control of temperatures, impure materials) they produced results that must have seemed miraculous at the time — fluorescent materials, elaborate crystalline structures, and so on.