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Alchemy - Sketch from a painting by Pieter Brueghel 1564 - 1637 #266898474
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At the foot of is a Dutch rhyming inscription to the effect that the alchemist waste time and treasure, and in the end starves in a workhouse. A practitioner of alchemy. The definition of an alchemist is a person who practices a form of chemistry from the Middle Ages which was concerned with transforming various metals into gold. An example of an alchemist is Zosimos of Panopolis.
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