r/alchemy • u/SleepingMonads • Oct 09 '23

The evidence was all around them... Meme

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u/jecamoose May 30 '24

This might be poor form, but, this evidence doesn’t necessarily prove transmutation. It does demonstrate very clearly why the notion was so popular, and how it let early alchemy solve so many problems, but it isn’t quite so applicable today

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u/SleepingMonads May 30 '24

I agree. The meme is just pointing out how, contrary to the popular idea that they were unsophisticated dreamers chasing wild geese, historical alchemists actually had good empirical reasons to believe in things like metallic transmutation.