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Alchemy: A Protoscientific Tradition by Anonymous is a document available to read on EtoBox.
Alchemy developed independently in Asia, Egypt, and Europe with different goals and practices. In Asia, alchemists isolated metals and invented gunpowder and steel. In Egypt, alchemy evolved from metallurgy and involved creating imitation metals. In Europe, alchemists like Paracelsus believed in balancing bodily humors with salts, minerals, and metals. While alchemists failed to achieve their goals of prolonging life and creating gold, their experiments accumulated chemical knowledge and techniques that con
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