The Age of Alchemy

Reach through time and across continents to see the history of chemistry as it's never been told.

The Enlightenment is usually credited with the origins of chemistry.

But in truth, science blossomed gradually as early innovators distilled, smelted, forged and fermented their way through the millennia, blurring science and mysticism in search of answers to life's greatest mysteries.

The first chemists were Sri Lankan steel forgers in the first century BCE; alchemists who emerged in Roman Egypt; herbalists in Tang Dynasty China and engineers in eighth-century South America.

Join Kit Chapman on a global quest to achieve immortality, cure all disease and transmute lead into gold as he reveals the illuminating stories of how the alchemists first broke new ground and shaped the scientific method.

With some experiments from Andrea Sella.

There will be a book signing after this event.