Yet they're built on a rigorous system of real-world information, ranging from theoretical physics and molecular biology to medieval alchemy and classical philosophy.

The elemental system used in medieval alchemy also originated with Jabir.

Educating himself in the libraries of UNC-Chapel Hill, Mathus learned Latin, studied theater, poetry, First Peoples culture, literature and medieval alchemy, as well as music.

The historical Flamel lived in Paris in the fourteenth and fifteenth century and his life is one of the best documented in the history of medieval alchemy.

The narrative begins with ancient technology and continues through Greek science, Islamic and medieval alchemy, Lavoisier and the development of atomic weighs and formulae.

In the European outlook, the ability to turn relatively worthless materials into gold was attractive enough to allow medieval alchemy to enjoy extensive practice long after the Chinese form had been forgotten.

During his lifetime, she made important contributions to Jung's major studies, particularly his inquiries into the psychology of medieval alchemy.

EVER since the heyday of medieval alchemy, experimenters have sought to force the supposedly nonreactive "noble elements" to react and form compounds.

The parchment texts in Hebrew, Sanskrit, and the cryptic coded charts of medieval alchemy.

Until recently most scholars dismissed such allegorical pictures and the vast literature of medieval and Renaissance alchemy as mystical fantasies tinged with charlatanism.