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‘…if we are to understand the sixteenth and seventeenth century mechanical philosophers, astronomers, and mathematicians who showed evidence at one time or another of an interest in traditional alchemy or any other phase of chemistry, we should be willing at least to consider the possibility that this interest may stem not necessarily from a desire on their part to transmute the base metals to gold, or even to apply corpuscular philosophy to chemical change, but rather from a very understandable desire on their part to investigate the claims of these chemical philosophers, who suggested that the proper key to all nature was to be found in the study of this Christian, this Universal, and this experimental science, Chemistry.’
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Text source: Ambix, Volume 14, Issue 1, 1967, pp. 42-59
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