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Alchemy

Alchemical subject matter. The Science History Institute, in an essay by Lawrence M. Principe: "Alchemy is now increasingly recognized as a fundamental part of the heritage of chemistry, of continuing human attempts to explore, control, and make use of the natural world", and alchemists hoped to discover the philosophers' stone, "a material supposedly able to transmute base metals into gold". IMPORTANT LIMIT: no fetched tattoo-domain source defines alchemy as a tattoo theme; a horror-fantasy gallery mentions alchemists in passing and that mention is NOT cited here as support.
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alchemy; philosophers stone; transmutation

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    Lawrence M. Principe, Science History Institute

    Distillations magazine essay by Lawrence M. Principe. Verbatim: "Alchemy is now increasingly recognized as a fundamental part of the heritage of chemistry, of continuing human attempts to explore, control, and make use of the natural world"; alchemists sought the philosophers' stone, "a material supposedly able to transmute base metals into gold". Cited for what alchemy WAS; no tattoo claim attached.

    academic · published 2013-01-30 · retrieved 2026-08-28

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