|link| For 4000 years Alchemists have been trying to turn lead into gold. It hasn’t worked. However they have discovered a lot of other neat things and they kept good notes. Here is a site that collects, translates and posts notebooks from the past.
originally posted by: skooz
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December 31st, 1969 at 4:00 pm
impressive
when i lived in prague i had an interest in alchemy. the city and country are steeped in that mystical history and in some towns, like cesky krumlov, you can see the symbols of that age on buildings and walls to this day. i’ll have to forward this site on to a friend of mine who is still interested in this sort of thing…