Yes, studies of alchemy date back thousands of years to a time when he difference between alchemy and chemistry were unknown. Today very few scientists study alchemy because other fields of research like physics and chemistry have more practical applications, and are somewhat easier to logically comprehend.
Alchemy used magic.
It didn't work. Science is all about figuring out how things work. Alchemy doesn't work, and never did.
Alchemy was a very genuine scientific inquiry in the middle ages, but it has since been made obsolete by the science of chemistry, which has a much better understanding of chemical phenomena than alchemy did. Anyone still practicing alchemy in the 21st century has failed to understand that science has advanced since the middle ages.
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The science once known as alchemy has for the most part evolved in to modern chemistry. Both share the same word etymology, but there are some major differences between the two sciences, and both emphasize upon these differences. However, alchemy is a science that is seldom practiced in the modern era.
Alchemy used magic.
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It didn't work. Science is all about figuring out how things work. Alchemy doesn't work, and never did.
Alchemy is a science like the ancient quemistry and it was not an occult practice.
Alchemy was a very genuine scientific inquiry in the middle ages, but it has since been made obsolete by the science of chemistry, which has a much better understanding of chemical phenomena than alchemy did. Anyone still practicing alchemy in the 21st century has failed to understand that science has advanced since the middle ages.
Now a day, people study chemistry instead and alchemy was the ancient science as we know it.
Alchemy WAS - but as new rules were discovered it either changed into chemistry OR it became "unscientific".
Alchemy isn't math. Alchemy is the science of putting two chemicals/objects together to create a whole new chemical or object.
Alchemy is sometimes referred to as 'early chemistry'. It was Robert Boyle who, in the 17th century, changed alchemy to chemistry. Alchemy derives from an Arabic word meaning chemistry.
Primitive science is the background of early chemistry and alchemy.
Any magic exist in science; magic is a characteristic of pseudoscience and religion.
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