But at the same time, they contributed to mining and metallurgy, and pharmacy and medicine, and their achievements and aspirations (as well as failures) inspired artists, playwrights, and poets. Their hope of discovering the secret of preparing the philosophers’ stone-a material supposedly able to transmute base metals into gold-was one powerful incentive for their endeavors. Alchemists developed practical knowledge about matter as well as sophisticated theories about its hidden nature and transformations. Alchemy is now increasingly recognized as a fundamental part of the heritage of chemistry, of continuing human attempts to explore, control, and make use of the natural world. No longer is it dismissed as a waste of time or a fool's quest. Nevertheless, over the past generation scholars have been revealing more and more of its surprising content and importance. He earned his first PhD in chemistry and his second in the history of science. We asked him to give our readers a taste of his book The Secrets of Alchemy. Lawrence Principe is one of the foremost scholars of alchemy in the world.
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I remember how in 1964, only twenty years after the war, Harold Clurman, the director of “Incident at Vichy,” showed the cast a film of a Hitler speech, hoping to give them a sense of the Nazi period in which my play took place. What terrifies one generation is likely to bring only a puzzled smile to the next. Fear doesn’t travel well just as it can warp judgment, its absence can diminish memory’s truth. I remember those years-they formed “The Crucible” ’s skeleton-but I have lost the dead weight of the fear I had then. But there they are-Daniel Day-Lewis (John Proctor) scything his sea-bordered field, Joan Allen (Elizabeth) lying pregnant in the frigid jail, Winona Ryder (Abigail) stealing her minister-uncle’s money, majestic Paul Scofield (Judge Danforth) and his righteous empathy with the Devil-possessed children, and all of them looking as inevitable as rain. 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