The Goldilocks Moment: Fire, Material Change, and Critical Time in Medieval Metallic Transmutation.

In medieval Latin alchemy, "the work" (magisterium) in the laboratory paralleled the work of nature - yet while nature took over "a thousand years" in the mine, the artifex in the laboratory would only need "a month, or a shorter, or longer time." Th…

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