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thumb|15th century depiction of an Ouroboros from the alchemical treatise '' (Zurich, Rheinau 172'').

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Key facts

UK legislation.short_title: Gold and Silver Act 1403
UK legislation.type: Act
UK legislation.parliament: Parliament of England
UK legislation.long_title: It shall be felony to use the craft of multiplication of gold or silver.
UK legislation.year: 1404
UK legislation.citation: 5 Hen. 4. c. 4
UK legislation.royal_assent: 20 March 1404
UK legislation.commencement: 14 January 1404
UK legislation.repealing_legislation: Royal Mines Act 1688
UK legislation.status: repealed
UK legislation.collapsed: yes

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Research

1,046 papers

From alchemy to personalised medicine: the journey of laboratory medicine.ReviewJournal of clinical pathology · 2023Verna RDOI: 10.1136/jcp-2022-208492
ALCHEMY.Science (New York, N.Y.) · 1891DOI: 10.1126/science.ns-18.447.113
Leadership: successful alchemy.ReviewAmerican journal of health-system pharmacy : AJHP : official journal of the American Society of Health-System Pharmacists · 2006White SJDOI: 10.2146/ajhp060263
Alchemy and psychology.Palliative & supportive care · 2017Breitbart WDOI: 10.1017/S1478951517000189
Alchemy restored.Isis; an international review devoted to the history of science and its cultural influences · 2011Principe LMDOI: 10.1086/660139
Cellular alchemy.American journal of respiratory and critical care medicine · 2003Robbins RADOI: 10.1164/rccm.2305010
The Future of Computational Linguistics: On Beyond Alchemy.ReviewFrontiers in artificial intelligence · 2021Church K, Liberman MDOI: 10.3389/frai.2021.625341
Culture: Artistic alchemy.Nature · 2014Ball PDOI: 10.1038/512026a

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Article

35 sections

Contents

Etymology
History
Hellenistic Egypt
Mythology
''Hermetica'' and ''Emerald Tablet''
Technology
Philosophy
Byzantium
India
Islamic world
East Asia
Medieval Europe
Renaissance and early modern Europe
Later modern period
Women
Modern historical research
Core concepts
Magnum opus
Modernity
Esoteric interpretations of historical texts
Psychology
Literature
Science
See also
Notes
References
Citations
Sources used
Bibliography
Introductions and textbooks
Greco-Egyptian alchemy
Texts
Studies
Early modern
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thumb|15th century depiction of an Ouroboros from the alchemical treatise '' (Zurich, Rheinau 172).

Alchemy (from the Arabic word , ) is an ancient branch of natural philosophy, a philosophical and protoscientific tradition that was historically practised in China, India, the Muslim world, and Europe. In its Western form, alchemy is first attested in a number of pseudepigraphical texts written in Greco-Roman Egypt during the first few centuries AD. Greek-speaking alchemists often referred to their craft as "the Art" () or "Knowledge" (), and it was often characterised as mystic (), sacred (), or divine ().