Alchemy
Show: Crash Course History of Science --> Season: 1 - History of Science
AirDate: 6/11/2018
Runtime: 12
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Overview: In fantasy stories, charlatans in fancy robes promise to turn lead into gold. But real alchemists weren’t just mystical misers. They were skilled experimentalists, backed by theories of matter. And they played a huge role in the development of knowledge about one of our fundamental questions: “what is stuff?”