Researchers performing chemical analyses of pottery and glass shards recovered from the laboratory of Danish astronomer and alchemist Tycho Brahe, have found concentrations of nickel, copper, mercury, ...

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Danish Tycho Brahe was most famous for his contributions to astronomy. However, he also had a well-equipped alchemical laboratory where he produced secret medicines for Europe's elite. In the Middle ...

A normal herbal tincture available at an apothecary is basically an herb soaked in alcohol, but spagyric tinctures involve separating a substance into those three components, purifying them and ...

Alchemy in Byzantine times was a long intellectual tradition blending Ancient Greek science, Egyptian symbolism, and ...

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In the Middle Ages, alchemists were notoriously secretive and didn’t share their knowledge with others. Danish Tycho Brahe was no exception. Consequently, we don’t know precisely what he did in the ...

(CNN) — Experimentation is the basis of the scientific process — and it’s at the heart of what it means to be human and question the world around us. Thousands of years ago, our ancestors produced the ...