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Alchemy & Science: Origins of the Divide - Paul Ferguson - 11-02-2024 Jonathan Paul Marshall  [revised and unabridged version of a conference paper published in Geoffrey Samuel, (ed.) Western Science and Its Alternatives, University of Newcastle Department of Sociology and Anthropology Occasional Papers Series, 1995] "Alchemy was one of the dominant modes of world description and experimentation in Europe for a period of at least 300 years, yet within a 20-30 year period it lay publicly abandoned. At the secret heart of the so-called scientific revolution pursued by Robert Boyle, John Locke and Isaac Newton, it lay publicly dismissed and abandoned, the pursuit of fools and lunatics alone. What happened?" https://www.academia.edu/1700173/Alchemy_and_Science_the_Origins_of_the_Divide