Alchemy is one of the most evocative subjects in the history of science. Alchemy made important contributions to the development of modern science while firing

George Ohsawa's translation and interpretation of Kervran's theory of biological transmutation, in which elements can transmute to other elements in the biologi

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Alchemy in Contemporary Art analyzes the manner in which twentieth-century artists, beginning with French Surrealists of the 1920s, have appropriated concepts a