Who Would Want an Anti-Elixir

A strange narrative indeed Although The Sceptical Chymist rid chemistry of the Aristotlean Elements, Boyle was a believer in the possibility of transmutation (as was fellow member of the Royal Society Isaac Newton). 

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FIGURE 153. Title page from the second edition of Boyle s rarest work—his witnessing of a reverse transmutation. The first edition, published in 1678, was anonymous  

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