Abstract

Theory choice is not a term often used in the context of medieval alchemy. Alchemists aspired to achieve extraordinary and, by our standards, impossible transformations: the transmutation of base metals into gold, the prolongation of human life, and the attainment of celestial perfection even within the flawed elemental world.

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