Examples of alchemy

• To some extent they have been perhaps sophisticated, or naive, victims of these new-fangled alchemies.

• The ' emergence' of the factors of interest should surely be shown as a rational and replicable process, not presented as alchemy that defies explanation.

• On the contrary : the putrefaction of deeds asserted over grace its own remorseless alchemy.

• He focused on reviving traditional philosophies and sciences such as cosmology, numerology, and alchemy, which had been neglected or lost in modern times.

• Teleological theories like alchemy, magic, and astrology simply have not stood the empirical test as well as mechanical theories have.

• The second book covered alchemy's and chemistry's relation to other fields of science, especially botany, suggesting the use of the doctrine of signatures to determine the medical property of plants.

• They implicate magic, alchemy and various forms of nonscientific knowledge in the production of sources of eternal youth, and identify a public susceptibility to such elixirs.

• Nuclear reprogramming - alchemy or analysis?