I learned Alchemy from Medieval Manuscripts. Here’s how it works:

An introductory Video to Alchemy! In this video we take a look at the four elements alchemists relied on, and the process of “calcination“ Some fun videos on alchemy to check out: Esoterica on Aristotle’s Meteorologies: Principe on alchemy and chemistry: Matteo Martelli on Graeco-Egyptian Alchemy: Sources (in order of appearance) I’ll try to link to virtual copies for as many as I can :) Earle Caley, ’Leyden and Stockholm Papyri’ ~jensenwb/books/Leyden & Stockholm Lawerence Principe, ’Secrets of Alchemy’ Richard Gordon, ’Imagining Greek and Roman Magic’ in ’Witchcraft and magic in Europe Ancient Greece and Rome’ Matteo Martelli, ’Four Books of Pseudo Democritus’ Lloyd, ’Early Greek Science; Thales to Aristotle’ Shannon Grimes, ’Becoming Gold’ Rumor and Martelli, ’Near Eastern Origins of Graeco Egyptian Alchemy’ Matteo Martelli, ’Greek Alchemists at Work’ . Lloyd, ’Greek Science after Aristotle’ Earle Caley, Theophrastus ’On Stones’ E. W. Webster, Aristotle’s ’Meteorology’ Dorothy Wyckoff, Albertus Magnus’ ’Book of Minerals’ Holmyard and Russell, ’Works of geber’ (this includes my source for Gebers ’Invention of Verity’ William Newman, ’The Summa Perfectionis of Pseudo Geber’ Gail Marlow Taylor, ’The Alchemy of Al-Razi’ Virginia Heines, ’Libellus De Alchemia attributed to Albertus Magnus’ Humphry Davy, ’Philosophical Transactions: On Some New Phenomena of Chemical Changes Produced by Electricity, Particularly the Decomposition of Fixed Alkalies...’ Humphry Davy, ’Electro-Chemical Research, on the Decomposition of the Earths...’