Even in Golden Age of Alchemy, Cornelis Drebbel stands alone as a sort of Ben Franklin or Emmett Brown character. He created the first submarine, red dye, and was famous for him continuous mobile machines that landed him in the courts of the likes of James I of England and Rudolf II of the Holy Roman Empire.

Elizabeth I of England, the last of the Tudors, is more than an interesting footnote in the history of alchemy.

Just a few alchemists' Halloween ghost stories: and a few more here:on the History of Germany Podcast

A fun legend of Alchemists from around the turn of the century in California.

Philosopher's Stone, Elixir of Life, but also: Homunculus. Some alchemists were more after this than gold, and in some theories a homunculus can be used as a philosopher's stone.A homunculus is basically an artificial man. Hear to learn more:

Heinrich Khunrath was a physician, alchemist, and all around interesting guy. He was also a sort of bridge between John Dee's philosophy and Rosicrucianism.

German secret society with alchemical undertones.

Christina of Sweden converted to Catholicism and turned to alchemy.

So many fantastic stories of the Count of St. Germain. Who was he and how long did he live? Even folks like Voltaire and Casanova had something to say about this man that travelled in royal circles around Europe.

We take a look at another great influencing character on the golden age of alchemy from the 14th or 15th century.

Alexander von Suchten was more of a court physician and chemist than alchemist, but as one of the people who's works Benedictus Figulus published, I thought it would be interesting to take a closer look at this nobleman.

Edmund Dickinson was alchemist and court physician to Charles II and James II.

Khalid (known as Calid in the West), in addition to being a prince of the Umayyad caliphate, was also interested in alchemy and is responsible for translating many works into arabic.

John Dee wore many hats, he is probably most famous to being an advisor to Elizabeth I, partner of Edward Kelley, and his angel conjuring. Have a listen for much more on him!

Maslama al-Majriti is a chemist (and much more) in Moorish Spain from the 10th century.

Another look at a colonial American alchemist.

We take a look at a mysterious 20th century French alchemist: Fulcanelli and his student, Caseliet.

The man behind Frankenstein, Prussian Blue, and an energy drink.

A look back and shout out to some of the folks that helped us along the way.

Johann Friedrich Böttger is credited with bringing porcelain to Europe. At the time porcelain was as valuable as gold, so no surprise that it took an alchemist to do it.

Marie Curie isn't really an alchemist, but she did show that "transmutation" does happen in nature. Normally this is out of the scope of The History of Alchemy Podcast, but we took the opportunity to compare modern atomic theory to the one of alchemists. To make up for us going out of scope we tell how to make gold at the end of the episode. No tricks, really turning mercury into gold using modern science!

Paul of Taranto may have been one of the the "Pseudo-Gebers" and had an interesting theory of the composition of metals (basically mercury and sulphur) that would become canon to alchemical theory. It's interesting for us to see a monk in the 13th century sitting in a lab going for reproducibility.

In the 2nd interview with Peter Adamson he talks about the theories of Al-Razi and his contemporary, Al-Farabi. Peter Adamson is a professor at LMU in Munich and is the host of The History of Philsophy without any Gaps Podcast. He's also currently writing a book on Al-Razi. We've covered Al-Razi before a href="http://historyofalchemy.com/podcast/episode-22-al-razi/" title="Episode 22: Al-Razi (Rhazes)" target="_blank" style="color: #21759b;...

We take a look at one of the alchemical ciphers to understanding Baru Urbigerus' works.

To see Isaac Newton as just a figure in the Scientific Revolution is not understanding him at all. To get the whole picture of who he was and what he was after one needs to look at Isaac Newton the alchemist.