So it turns out that, if you really understand what the alchemists were doing, they were doing some fairly…

So it turns out that, if you really understand what the alchemists were doing, they were doing some fairly remarkable stuff.

Their recipes were encoded in symbolism, which makes them a challenge to reconstruct. (I have a Gryphon Clerks novel planned in which the instructions for making a kind of bioengineered polymer are encoded in Elvish poetry.)

Via a private share off G+.

http://wapo.st/2DLrc2e?tid=ss_gp&utm_term=.491d09cc0b0f