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<p>Often alchemy is seen as an example of medieval gullibility and the alchemists as a collection of eccentrics and superstitious fools.<br>Sean Martin shows that nothing could be further from the truth. It is important to see the search for the philosopher&apos;s stone and the attempts to turn base metal into gold as metaphors for the relation of man to nature and man to God as much as seriously held beliefs.<br>Alchemy had a self-consistent out...Seguir leyendo