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Secrets of the Alchemists
Roman Emperor Diocletian burnt all Egyptian books about alchemy and other Hermetic sciences, destroying all recorded history in the subject to date -
1267
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Roger Bacon, the first known English alchemist, corrected the Julian calendar and submits it to Pope Clement IV -
1580
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Elector Augustus of Saxony, an alchemist, left approximately $17 million toward the research of alchemy -
Secrets of the Alchemists
Adalbert Alask, Prince of Poland, sought out Dr. John Dee and Edward Kelly to discuss their experiments. The two returned to Prague with the prince to further their research in the public's peak time of interest in alchemy. https://docs.google.com/document/d/1ERRSpNf_FKjSD7q6yRQ7cNpgH3Wi1Sombiu9HQfAnwo/edit?usp=sharing -
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Thomas Vaughn wrote about the religious motivation behind his alchemy-inspired writings, and produces the first description of the transmutation of metals https://docs.google.com/document/d/1zFERGME_oTubSmrhPFUCnMpX65bqGc92C21a7CNXWiQ/edit?usp=sharing -
Secrets of the Alchemists
John Frederick Helvetius admitted to receiving the Powder of Transmutation from another alchemist, and told the story of his education of "The Divine Art" of the Philosopher's Stone -
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The beginning of the publicly-accepted disctinction between alchemy and chemistry -
Secrets of the Alchemists
Jean Baptista Van Helmontm, the first man to teach chemistry of the human body, published “Lives of the Alchemystical Philosophers”, in which he described his education in alchemy that he gained in Arabia, and claims that he carried powder of projection. -
Space-Time: The Fourth Dimension
The Second Law of Thermodynamics is proposed by Rudolf Clausius and William Thomson (Kelvin), which states that entropy or disorder must always increase. This confirms the existence of a starting point in time. -
Space-Time: The Fourth Dimension
Albert Einstein published his theory of special relativity, a key turning point in the concept of time. https://docs.google.com/document/d/1vw9TzIucK8_I_JL5oRYuMi85w-vQ6walI7q0AwaeBn8/edit?usp=sharing -
Space-Time: The Fourth Dimension
Karl Schwarzschild proposes the first solution of general relativity that would characterize a black hole -
Space-Time: The Fourth Dimension
Wormholes are first theorized by physicist Ludwig Flamm https://docs.google.com/document/d/1rHus4lAAq3xeVgf5OQMMUBE7bTiwF7VpOAElpSkKx-A/edit?usp=sharing -
Space-Time: The Fourth Dimension
David Finkelstein, a physics professor, published his interpretation of Karl Svhwarzchild’s solution of general relativity, making the first proposal that black holes are a region of space from which nothing can escape -
Space-Time: The Fourth Dimension
The first black hole is discovered -
Space-Time: The Fourth Dimension
Stephen Hawking published his final book "Brief Answers to the Big Questions", which proposed the idea that wormholes could lead to parallel universes and that history would falsify paradoxes