alchemy

Adi metalleri altına dönüştürmeye ve ölümsüzlük iksirini bulmaya çalışan Ortaçağ uygulaması.

Medieval practice attempting to transform base metals into gold and discover the elixir of life.

• Medieval alchemists spent years searching for the philosopher's stone.
• The study of alchemy eventually contributed to modern chemistry.
• Modern scholars debate whether alchemy should be regarded purely as pseudoscience or as a legitimate precursor to systematic chemical investigation.
• The transition from alchemy to chemistry accelerated during the seventeenth century when experimental rigor replaced mystical symbolism in laboratory practices.
• Renaissance intellectuals often practiced alchemy alongside astronomy, believing that celestial influences could affect the transmutation of substances.
• Though dismissed today, alchemy played a crucial role in developing laboratory techniques such as distillation and crystallization that remain fundamental to science.

Eş anlamlılar: transmutation, chrysopoeia

Sihirli görünen bir dönüşüm veya yaratma süreci.

A seemingly magical process of transformation or creation.

• The chef's alchemy turned simple ingredients into a masterpiece.
• Through some strange alchemy, their friendship became love.

Eş anlamlılar: magic, transformation, sorcery, wizardry