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Alchemy, what is it?
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<blockquote data-quote="Justinian" data-source="post: 54483" data-attributes="member: 923"><p>I watched a really good History Channel show on this. Most alchemists actually died. This was because they were using Mercury. Something to do with the weird properties of mercury that everyone thought it was the so called philospher stone and used it in their mix and match chemistry experiments. This show though did go on to say that a lot of things came about because of alchemy. BUT.. most alchemist were con artists.. what they would do is get paid by some noble to pay for their "research". Now this was like high risk investing back in the day. These nobles were betting on this alchemist to find this philosopher stone so that they could make gold out of anything and then be the richest in the kingdom. This was the noble's point of view. Now from the alchemists point of view.. They were getting a lavish lifestyle paid for, sometimes for years. The con was to keep it going for as long as they could.. Sometimes they said, when they knew they were running thin on patience with the noble that was paying their salary, they would pull some David Copperfield type slight of hand trick on them to say they had found out the secret.. then when the noble would be sending out word that his alchemist had found it and have his other people testing this.. the alchemist would slip out the back door.</p><p> </p><p>So that's what I heard from a purely historical stand point.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Justinian, post: 54483, member: 923"] I watched a really good History Channel show on this. Most alchemists actually died. This was because they were using Mercury. Something to do with the weird properties of mercury that everyone thought it was the so called philospher stone and used it in their mix and match chemistry experiments. This show though did go on to say that a lot of things came about because of alchemy. BUT.. most alchemist were con artists.. what they would do is get paid by some noble to pay for their "research". Now this was like high risk investing back in the day. These nobles were betting on this alchemist to find this philosopher stone so that they could make gold out of anything and then be the richest in the kingdom. This was the noble's point of view. Now from the alchemists point of view.. They were getting a lavish lifestyle paid for, sometimes for years. The con was to keep it going for as long as they could.. Sometimes they said, when they knew they were running thin on patience with the noble that was paying their salary, they would pull some David Copperfield type slight of hand trick on them to say they had found out the secret.. then when the noble would be sending out word that his alchemist had found it and have his other people testing this.. the alchemist would slip out the back door. So that's what I heard from a purely historical stand point. [/QUOTE]
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