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What happens when the search for the Philosopher’s Stone begins with one of the most ordinary substances in human life?
From Urine to Gold explores a strange but documented thread in the history of alchemy: urine experiments, the Emerald Tablet, Hermetic symbolism, John Dee, Isaac Newton, Hennig Brand, the discovery of phosphorus, and the centuries-old dream of transforming matter.
The book follows the boundary between laboratory practice, historical evidence, metaphysics, symbolism, and myth.
Alchemy did not produce gold. But sometimes, while looking for it, alchemists discovered something real.
From Urine to Gold is now available on Written.