When1: 1250
When2: 1550
What: alchemist
Where: Europe
Detail: Alchemists were astrologers, animists, philosophers, and healers. Major European alchemists were Roger Bacon, Albertus Magnus, Basil Valentine, and Paracelsus. Alchemists changed metal color, reduced, distilled, calcinated, sublimated, and cupellated. They used a still {alembic} and refluxing apparatus {kerostalsis}. Alchemists hoped to find gentle universal solvent {alkahest}.
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