the 17th-century Theatrum Chemicum is a comprehensive compendium on alchemy in the western world?
the distinct resemblance of a certain silver mixture, known as Diana's Tree, to a forest of trees led alchemists to theorize the existence of life in the realm of minerals?
the hostility of English alchemist Thomas Charnock's neighbours forced him to barricade himself in his cottage?
composer Michael Arne's obsession for alchemy and the search for the philosopher's stone led him into serious financial problems resulting in his arrest and confinement in a Dublin sponging-house?
a real-life German alchemist named Johann Georg Faust was the inspiration for Marlowe-Goethe Faust of fictional fame?
Tang Dynasty general Li Baozhen, in search of immortality, consumed over 20,000 pills made by an alchemist, which eventually killed him?
Jacob Bruce, a Russian nobleman of Scottish descent and one of the most educated people in Russia at the time, was famous among the 18th-century Muscovites as an alchemist and mage?
The Kinship of the Three is the earliest book on theoretical alchemy in China and is the earliest source to have mentioned the compositions necessary to create gunpowder?
Piero di Cosimo's painting The Death of Procris (pictured) may contain allusions to the practice of alchemy?