April Fools' Day: Did Alchemy Prank the Modern Sciences?

Criminalia

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True Crime, Society & Culture

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🗓️ 29 March 2022

⏱️ 42 minutes

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There’s no mistaking that alchemy laid a foundation for the modern science of chemistry. And though the contributions of alchemists have been dismissed by scholars for years – centuries, to be more accurate -- some of the names we recognize as being influential in the early days of our modern sciences were also alchemists. Whether it was known they were practicing alchemists, that’s a different story.

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