A German alchemist named Hennig Brand sought gold in 1669. He used large amounts of urine in his experiments. Instead of gold ...
Alchemy remains one of the most mysterious subjects in history, and this level of intrigue remains in Fullmetal Alchemist: Brotherhood, the second anime based on Hiromu Arakawa's bestselling manga.
Re-creating the evolution of science. Charlatans peddling elixirs to medieval monarchs, fraudulent claims of transmutation into gold, and the futile search for the "philosopher's stone": these are ...