Timing is everything! In her new Ambix article, Carmen Schmechel (@carmenschmechel.bsky.social) explores medieval Latin alchemists’ search for the “Goldilocks moment," i.e. the exact moment to take the metal from the fire. It is available open access: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
In medieval Latin alchemy, “the work” (magisterium) in the laboratory paralleled the work of nature – yet while nature took over “a thousand years” in the mine, the artifex in the laboratory would ...
