I'm not generally one for pseudoscience but I will make an exception for alchemy because it SLAPS and its place as a transition between the mythology and mysticism of the ancients and the rational emp
iricism of the modern day is like. endlessly fascinating to me. It's a protoscience. It's the world's last attempt at preserving the form-function amalgam. It's delusional nonsense. It's the foundation of modern chemical sciences. It's endlessly interesting. Isaac Newton considered it like more important than physics and he pretty much straight up FOUNDED the study of classical physics. Do you feel me?
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