Alchemists
[ælkimists]
Examples
- The alchemists sought to discover processes whereby one metal might be transmuted into another. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
- Aristotle speculated, and the alchemists of the middle ages busied themselves in magic and guess-work. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
- Closely associated with the alchemists were the astrologers, who were also a practical race. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- We live to-day largely in the age of alchemists, for all our sneers at their memory. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- To reverse the process of the transformation and produce radium from the base metal lead would be an achievement greater than the vaunted transmutations of the alchemists. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
- We know of the _athanor_ of the alchemists of the middle ages. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
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