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The document summarizes research analyzing sixteenth-century alchemical laboratory instruments and artifacts using modern scientific techniques. The research identified the raw materials used in ceramic instruments and found that a cryptic alchemy text described a reproducible metallurgical process, suggesting the author had real scientific knowledge. It suggests that average Renaissance alchemists were religiously-minded researchers at the dawn of the scientific revolution, engaged in early scientific purs
- Author
- Christophe Garnier
- Language
- EN