Alchemy and the Scientific Revolution

[Paul Ferguson]

"Today we will talk about the alchemical tradition, or rather the tradition of the magus. If the astronomical-physical tradition from Copernicus to Newton is the main line of the Scientific Revolution, then alchemy is the side line. But that does not mean this line was dispensable; it is only that this thread ultimately lost to mechanism, and because its main elements are now regarded as pseudoscientific or even anti-scientific, it has been intentionally or unintentionally excluded from the mainstream narrative of the history of science."

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