alchemy

     

Hermetism

Trivia about alchemy

  • Back in the Middle Ages, the aim of this practice was to change base metals into gold
  • This art of transmuting metals broke up into branches; the esoterics drew away from lab practices
  • Capocchio & Griffolino of Arezzo are damned to Hell for being falsifiers of metal using this process
  • A type of medieval chemistry, it aimed in part to transmute base metals into gold