4Ps
Season 1, Episode 7, Alchemy, Chemistry's Dark Past.
39:00
In this episode of 4Ps: Plants, Pests, Parasites & People, Dr. Kate Martin explores alchemy as more than a weird wrong turn in science—it's a thousand-year, globe-spanning attempt to “hack reality” in a world of disease, instability, and miracle-sized hopes. From Egypt and China to South Asia, the Islamic world, and medieval Europe, she follows how ideas traveled on trade routes, how patronage…