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Regard John the 22nd, The Catholics and the protestant were more or less in the eternal competition to one up each other during the early modern period. Given the evidence John 22nd didn't see any problem with alchemy under the proto-scientific method that is scholastic Theology which is specifically a very high church doctrine (given that God made the world therefore it must be study) Lutherans and high-church Anglicans practice scholastic Theology aswell but further divergence would seperate further with reformed and more literalist sects of Anglicanism which would birth out the Puritans ironically.
The irony is that if there was a way to mass produce gold (that didn’t involve platinum), the value of gold would plummet, rendering the entire endeavor fruitless.
Well you say that, but there are plenty of people who refuse to believe lab diamonds are the same as blood diamonds. And in fairness they’re not…they’re better
Gold is a useful material though, an excellent conductor and it doesn't corrode. If we had an infinite supply of it we could use it for a lot of purposes it's currently too expensive for.
Depends on how cheap or expensive the procedure was. I think it would still be useful though because of the conductive, non-allergenic and other properties of gold. Like with diamonds that are used in industry. Maybe it wouldn't be a precious metal but we could use it for so many other things.
@@hazenoki628 Thiiiiisss,I always hear the concept "gold would be worthless if there was a lot of it" as if the thing was just a rare metal for jewelry,gold has A LOT of uses...given the case,copper value would drop drastically
Dunno, I like the periodic table. Like check out the meaning behind the names, that's a vibe in itself. Who knows, some might have synthesised pyrite and declared it vibe gold. I prefere my gold to be true to itself, all 197 nuclear particles of it.
There are some different versions of periodic tables with different vibes. My spouse is a chemist, and in his office, he has a poster of the curled ribbon periodic table, designed by James Franklin Hyde. He also has the standard one, but there are alternative ways to conceptualize the periodic table, and some of them are absolutely aesthetic.
I saw Flamel at a grocery store in Paris yesterday. I told him how cool it was to meet him in person, but I didn’t want to be a douche and bother him and ask him for photos or anything. He said, “Oh, like you’re doing now?” I was taken aback, and all I could say was “Huh?” but he kept cutting me off and going “huh? huh? huh?” and closing his hand shut in front of my face. I walked away and continued with my shopping, and I heard him chuckle as I walked off. When I came to pay for my stuff up front I saw him trying to walk out the doors with like fifteen Milky Ways in his hands without paying. The girl at the counter was very nice about it and professional, and was like “Sir, you need to pay for those first.” At first he kept pretending to be tired and not hear her, but eventually turned back around and brought them to the counter. When she took one of the bars and started scanning it multiple times, he stopped her and told her to scan them each individually “to prevent any electrical infetterence,” and then turned around and winked at me. I don’t even think that’s a word. After she scanned each bar and put them in a bag and started to say the price, he kept interrupting her by yawning really loudly.
We HAVE actually been able to make gold. From lead. It's done in a particle accelerator and costs insanely large amounts of money to create tiny amounts of gold, BUT ALCHEMY IS REAL WE DID IT!!!! also, it's hard to critique the old alchemists when we have lab made diamonds, obviously it's not the same but it seems equally improbable unless you're a scientist
I read “The Alchemy of Paint” by Spike Bucklow and it’s a very interesting look at the intersection between creating artists’ pigments and alchemy. Artists had to follow certain alchemical practices to extract pigments. Like having to complete a certain series of tasks to extract ultramarine blue from lapis lazuli. There were even artists who wrote down their “recipes” for paint pigments but you’d have to know alchemy to be able to read it. It was very interesting
Nicholas Flamel popped by for tea and watched the video with me. He doesn't have a RUclips account any more - got banned for trolling - but wants me to pass on that it definitely wasn't him all those people claim to have seen
@@lilypryor9015I know right?! When he would come to my local pub for his pint of lager and pie of the day every Friday, he’d tip us with this weird chuck of rock every time. Really started to get on our nerves, his wife was always a sweetheart tho
Hope you don’t mind that I’m stealing that from you. “Ay yo! It’s that esoteric history creature!” I’m sure I can work that into a rap song of some sort, but it’s 4:30 in the morning and I haven’t had my rapper’s delight yet. (Coffee. With lean.) 😅
I have a very odd urge to rewatch Fullmetal Alchemist after this...(Parcelsus aka Philippus Aureolus Theophratsus Bombastus von Hohenheim had a bangin' name)
unironically FMA did an amazing job with representing alchemy compared to most media, even if it was very fantastical. Hiromu Arakawa really did her research.
Can I just say, I really appreciate the set dressing and costuming in all your videos. Thank you for putting in so much effort to make informative and aesthetically pleasing videos.
im literally in premed because i had an alchemy obsession and my 6th grade chemistry teacher showed me how alchemists were the ones who discovered things like mineral acids and phosphorus. its fascinating how they narrowed down their principles and 2/3 of them are like. essential to life. salt and sulfur ………
You know, in the original Frankenstein novel, Victor got into medical science from studying alchemy as a kid, too. He studied alchemy, did what he could to wrap his head around it, then went to learn the real stuff- "philosophy of the sciences" I think they called it, which included anatomy and medicine. You... you wouldn't happen to be planning on making a new form of life, would you?
@ oh my god i never knew this i thought i was having fun unique quirky life experiences but i have actually been following the exact same path as massive cultural icon victor frankenstein on accident. lucky for you, i personally would never go out of my way to synthesize a new life form. i cant imagine creating a whole new obligation to socialize with, and i dont think i should give a homonculus an ipad
History's most successful alchemist was probably Avedis Zildjian, who didn't manage to turn base metals into gold, but *did* turn them into a great material for making cymbals. And given that the Zildjian company is still the world's leading cymbal manufacturer after 400 years, it's... sort of the same result.
It's really really funny that the true story of Nicholas Flamel is probably "Guy made a lot of money through inheritance and (possibly) land speculation, and for some reason a lot of people decide he's some kind of miracle worker." What's even funnier is that this is also a decent summary of the last ten years of American politics.
I’m a chemistry undergrad and it’s always fun to learn about the history of this field, I think a lot about how difficult it would be to comprehend and characterize chemicals and bonding and the effects they have on eachother without modern tools.
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i wonder if a lot of the popularity of alchemy among academics was like how research is now where the "alchemists" were looking for funding for their experiments and knew that getting people with money interested in more money was the way to get funding.
It varies, really. One Livonian general in the Swedish army was found to have deserted, and upon being called once again by Swedish authorities, he offered his alchemic skills as a way of indentured servancy. Roger Bacon dabbled in alchemy but he had a great deal of other areas to support him. Albertus Magnus seemingly just did alchemy as a wider range of his scholarly work, mostly translating older works.
Thank you for bringing awareness to the destruction caused by Hurricane Helene. I live just east of Asheville, we are ok, but so many aren't. I love your videos, entertaining and educational!❤
my grandparents live near there too, i’m glad you’re okay they were out of power for days and all the roads around their house were flooded. my grandpa endangered himself to go to the local college to call us cuz no cell use either. and the bad irony is that their daughter-my aunt’s-name is Helene (pronounced Huh-Lan though). anywho this planet is crazy and i’m glad there are many OK but yeah it’s seriously still so nuts and dangerous for so many people, just in case anyone scrolls past this who does have money and needs some motivation to help i figired id throw an xtra story in. best wishes 🩵
Would you do a similar dive into the transition (transmutation?) of astrology into astronomy please. After 450years Ive lost my frenxh accent but my dear wife still with her Parisian twang😅
I reached out to Kaz a few months ago to see if they were interested in a collaboration. The production team asked me how much I would be willing to pay to do so and that was the end of the conversation. Regardless, it's a wonderful channel and I wish Kaz much success.
I love the book series The Alchemist which uses Flamel, Machiavelli, and other historical, mythical, and religious figures. Very good read, highly recommend
I read a book where Nicolas Flamel was a killer who had been stalking his wife through time and some journalist discovers the story. But, I’ve read several very good series where alchemy is at the core of the plot. A Discovery of Witches is the most recent. This was a great video. I know John Dee worked in Elizabeth I’s court and I think Isaac Newton was into Alchemy. It’s a fascinating topic for sure. Dr Sledge on the Esoterica channel has a wonderful series that explains what they actually believed and how they practiced as well as doing deep dives on ancient alchemical and hermetic texts. If you’ve never seen his channel, you might like it.
LOVE LOVE LOVE to see a video about alchemy!! Big special interest of mine. Larry Principe wrote my favorite book on the subject, he’s one of the only researchers who tries to recreate old alchemical mixtures to understand what the heck they were actually doing back then. Great guy!
i recommend The Secrets of Alchemy by Lawrence M. Princippe,, professor emeritus of chemistry at Stanford University. largely due to his work recreating experiments from 16th century texts obscured by coded language and lack of historical scientific literacy, elevated alchemy from mere protochemistry to a science in its own right, worthy of reconsideration. scholarly and thorough, with detailed footnotes and a deep respect for both the subject matter and historization
I'm a Greek Mythology buff, to say first. I adored the video you made about the Oracle of Delphi. I'd be extraordinarily interested in what you have to say about the air of the Trojan War and Heinrich Schliemann.
In some video games like World of Warcraft, Alchemy is a "profession" that players can choose to do on the side. Although it is possible to "transmute" metals with in-game alchemy, the profession is mainly focused on making potions and elixirs with herbs (and sometimes other ingredients). Baldur's Gate 3 has a similar system.
Love your video's Kaz, they definitely helped me make my decision to study history. I'm in my second year now and still can't believe that I get to hold century old texts bc of that !
Clicked on this so fast! Used to explore the lore of alchemy a lot (thank you FMA 2003), so this was a nice refresher in many ways, and educational in many others! Regarding the Pope John XXII and his alchemy, it may be he was more against "false alchemy" and his decretal was mainly against the "false alchemy" he perceived. And he may have felt this way because of studying alchemy in his youth. Speculation based on light reading though.
Re the question at 18:00 on the text attributed to John XXII. European alchemy isn't my specific area of expertise, and I don't know about John XXII's bibliography, but I believe that John XXII's ban was more directed at fraudulent alchemy (i.e. promising that imitation gold etc. was the real thing), rather than the entire pursuit, so it wouldn't surprise me if he wrote something on alchemy.
This will probably sound like a douchey comment but they look and sound like rich people mattresses. Some of us poorer folks gotta sleep on fiberglass. I wish my biggest worry in life was whether or not my mattress was fiberglass free 😂
As a practicing magician in the same western medieval tradition that brings us alchemy, I'm thrilled to see you tackling this subject with your usual care and thoughtfulness. Can't wait to dive into the full video!
If viewers are interested in pursuing the academic side of studying Alchemy and other esoteric arts, may I point you to Dr. Justin Sledge's channel, Esoterica. Fascinating stuff, even if sometimes difficult to understand.
Great video as per usual hun!!!! Just wanted to say that I got really excited when you mentioned Hermes Trismegistus and Hermeticism. Most sources on that stuff are very scholarly and not easy to understand so I wanted to ask if you’d ever consider making a video about Hermeticism. It’s fascinating as a medieval philosophy, and that’s not mentioning its modern day interpretations, and how it created The Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn, which then created modern Tarot as we know it today! Anyway, I hope you consider it. However, as long as you’re making videos I’m happy :3
Truly, sincerely, I knew most of this. But holy shit Katz you are the single only (presumed) living, breathing person who’s actually talked about alchemy in the same depth that I researched it and it’s making the spicy brain so damn happy
That whole bit about 'mercury' and 'silver' reminded me of the fact that almost nobody made bronze in the Bronze Age. Not modern bronze, anyway. They made lots of different copper alloys which they thought of as bronzes and called bronze but which now would not be called bronze.
My main exposure to Nicholas Flamel was in The Secrets of the Immortal Nicholas Flamel series by Michael Scott. Fun little romp through historic characters who are all immortal, like John Dee, Billy the Kid, and Joan of Arc.
Weirdly I've just been watching a lot of videos about alchemy from the fantastic channel Esoterica. This was really cool and well presented. Well done dispelling the myths around alchemy. It's a fascinating part of history.
The reason I like and, therefore, am subscribed to your channel is because of your efforts to provide the whole picture. You make it a point to go beyond the many similar others with their tunnel vision that educational enlightenment and, heck, even civilization, as we know it, began in Europe. Their personal bias, possibly from ignorant racist upbringing and adherence, tend to wall up their research within that wilful confinement. So, thank you, for your educations about the contributions of other country's and culture's on your subject matters. 💞 💗
That bit about Paracelsus and shifting from Galenic medicine towards pharmaceutica is really interesting. I had in my head that doctors were still reading Galen in the 19th century, which doesn't rule out chemical pursuits of medicine as a parallel route of inquiry... I just have so many questions now.
its pretty wild that gold can actually be lab synthesized, the process is just so expensive, *much* more expensive than the small amount it makes, and the gold is INCREDIBLY radioactive
For anyone interested in the chemistry behind alchemical claims, there's a great book called "The Chemistry of Alchemy: From Dragon's Blood to Donkey Dung, How Chemistry Was Forged" that goes over some of the historical background and delves into what the alchemists were doing, chemically, and why the claims of making gold might seem to be plausible. It was really fascinating!
I just wanted to say thank you for making informative and logical videos on these topics, you've helped me find a passion for history and reading again ❤️ you're a wonderful person Kaz !
I scrolled for sooooo long to find your comment after it popped up on the random comments bar just so I could like it and let you know how much it made me laugh!!! 😄
Shout out to esoterica / Dr. Sledge! He specializes in the esoterica and even alchemized(?) himself a potion from an alchemist’s book (please don’t try it yourself though)
i'm at a loss for words, this is an absolutely great piece of research, consistent and sequential as it should be. thank you for quoting and citing the sources as well, I'm most certainly going to have a wonderful few days
Wow you dropped this video at the perfect time for me! I just started writing a story about wizards for myself and was going to include alchemy-like elements to my story. Good video :3
I love your videos on history and historical practices and this one in particular has given me a lot of inspiration for trying to make a magic system for a fantasy story I want to write
Thank you for sharing about the hurricane relief fund! The donations are how most of us here (eastern tn) have been getting by. The devastation is unreal. Thank you so much! ♥️
I'm forever grateful for my chemistry teacher who taught us a lot of this stuff (though I'd forgotten it after all these years and def learned some new stuff!) Makes me realize he really went above and beyond
loved this video (as always!), but i have a couple notes from ~9:00 - heads up that Carl Jung's name is pronounced "yoong" (it's a Swiss name so the sound is somewhere between an 'oo' and 'uh' sound, and the J is softened to a Y sound). also the stone you hold up seems to be a smoky quartz (it's hard to say for sure with the lighting). last note, with the phrase "as above, so below" it's actually been mistranslated; it's supposed to be something closer to "the above is of the below and the below is of the above", which may seem like the same thing, but the mistranslation gives the idea of each reflecting the other, while the original is saying that they are inherently intertwined, similar to a yin yang idea of one cannot exist without the other and there is a harmony in the similarities and differences in each (I hope I've explained that in a way that makes sense - twitchywitch on TT has a great video about it) please keep up the great work, i always look forward to your videos n_n
Thank you for mentioning mispronounciation of Jung’s name, which was strange to me considering he’s one of the most famous psychologists ever, but oh well…
I'm just glad to finally have an answer to the question that's been bothering me for so long; that being how the hell did alchemy go from trying to create immortality and turning lead into gold, to the more common pop-culture depiction of crushing plants together to make medicines and poisons
To go super deep dive into all the history of Alchemy, definitely check out Dr. Justin Sledge over on Esoterica. He's definitely a major youtube authority on the subject!
Hi Kaz! I just wanted to tell you that I really love your videos and that I actually started remembering how much I love history when I first started watching maybe a year ago. Your content actually influenced me to take the advanced history course in 11th grade (german 11th grade btw. you are legally obligated to be in school until 10th grade here) and I’m actually surprisingly good in this class!! So I just wanted to thank you for all the great content and wanted to let you know that your videos do impact people’s lives :)
As an artist, I see it as a spiritual concept/practice...long before I ever tried psychedelics, my artwork had many symbolic, spiritual/alchemical symbols...it was only until last year until I drew all the parallels in my own art practice to modern alchemical practice...the refining of my own art, body, mind and soul to create "gold" The moment I started to research masonry, alchemy and esoteric knowledge, my artwork became alot more impactful, and my use of symbolism was effective, and my career really took off, sales and gallery shows ❤ Really wish I could share pictures in the comments :/
For those interested in alchemy and adjacent fields, you should watch Esoterica with Dr. Justin Sledge, where we explore the arcane in history, philosophy, and religion.
"...known colloquially as Paracelsus, thank GAWWD" 😆 Like so many other historical curiosities, I had no interest in alchemy, and therefore had fallen for most of the popular misconceptions. Once again, thank you ✨😊✨
Indeed people forget that people back then and in every other previous time period were no more stupid or less smart than we are today 🤷♀️ they were just as curious and innovative innovative all the same. The only advantage we have in modern times is that the people of the past laid the groundwork for us to keep achieving. Great video 😊
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🧐nobody understands the paracelsus meme? please do explain!?!
Bestie please tell me that I can get your necklace on Etsy and that it isn’t an antique
Regard John the 22nd, The Catholics and the protestant were more or less in the eternal competition to one up each other during the early modern period.
Given the evidence John 22nd didn't see any problem with alchemy under the proto-scientific method that is scholastic Theology which is specifically a very high church doctrine (given that God made the world therefore it must be study) Lutherans and high-church Anglicans practice scholastic Theology aswell but further divergence would seperate further with reformed and more literalist sects of Anglicanism which would birth out the Puritans ironically.
The irony is that if there was a way to mass produce gold (that didn’t involve platinum), the value of gold would plummet, rendering the entire endeavor fruitless.
Well you say that, but there are plenty of people who refuse to believe lab diamonds are the same as blood diamonds. And in fairness they’re not…they’re better
Gold is a useful material though, an excellent conductor and it doesn't corrode. If we had an infinite supply of it we could use it for a lot of purposes it's currently too expensive for.
Depends on how cheap or expensive the procedure was. I think it would still be useful though because of the conductive, non-allergenic and other properties of gold. Like with diamonds that are used in industry. Maybe it wouldn't be a precious metal but we could use it for so many other things.
@@hazenoki628 Thiiiiisss,I always hear the concept "gold would be worthless if there was a lot of it" as if the thing was just a rare metal for jewelry,gold has A LOT of uses...given the case,copper value would drop drastically
Sure, but the alchemist who figured it out would become absurdly wealthy
This video is driving me to the conclusion that our contemporary periodic table needs more vibes. suffering from an absolute dearth of vibes.
Atoms have been vibes since the Bohr model, over 100 years
Dunno, I like the periodic table. Like check out the meaning behind the names, that's a vibe in itself. Who knows, some might have synthesised pyrite and declared it vibe gold. I prefere my gold to be true to itself, all 197 nuclear particles of it.
The periodic table slaps.
It just needs the right artistic hand.
The periodic table is pure vibes. That's what periods and groups are for
There are some different versions of periodic tables with different vibes. My spouse is a chemist, and in his office, he has a poster of the curled ribbon periodic table, designed by James Franklin Hyde. He also has the standard one, but there are alternative ways to conceptualize the periodic table, and some of them are absolutely aesthetic.
I saw Flamel at a grocery store in Paris yesterday. I told him how cool it was to meet him in person, but I didn’t want to be a douche and bother him and ask him for photos or anything. He said, “Oh, like you’re doing now?” I was taken aback, and all I could say was “Huh?” but he kept cutting me off and going “huh? huh? huh?” and closing his hand shut in front of my face. I walked away and continued with my shopping, and I heard him chuckle as I walked off. When I came to pay for my stuff up front I saw him trying to walk out the doors with like fifteen Milky Ways in his hands without paying.
The girl at the counter was very nice about it and professional, and was like “Sir, you need to pay for those first.” At first he kept pretending to be tired and not hear her, but eventually turned back around and brought them to the counter.
When she took one of the bars and started scanning it multiple times, he stopped her and told her to scan them each individually “to prevent any electrical infetterence,” and then turned around and winked at me. I don’t even think that’s a word. After she scanned each bar and put them in a bag and started to say the price, he kept interrupting her by yawning really loudly.
Lmao this copypasta never gets old
@@Zackadeles i honestly had never seen it and just thought this guy was a comedic genius lost in the comments hahahahahaha
We HAVE actually been able to make gold. From lead. It's done in a particle accelerator and costs insanely large amounts of money to create tiny amounts of gold, BUT ALCHEMY IS REAL WE DID IT!!!! also, it's hard to critique the old alchemists when we have lab made diamonds, obviously it's not the same but it seems equally improbable unless you're a scientist
Yeah that’s what I thought I mean it should be possible… just not easy
not only from lead, but mercury, platinum and bismuth, too [Still way too expensive tho]
But we can't really make it the way alchemy intended. The point was not just to create gold but wealth, so thusfar alchemy has still failed its goal
@@NukkuiskoHyvinVaiPois true
Yeah I was thinking it is not silly, we do fabricate stuff artificially these days
I read “The Alchemy of Paint” by Spike Bucklow and it’s a very interesting look at the intersection between creating artists’ pigments and alchemy. Artists had to follow certain alchemical practices to extract pigments. Like having to complete a certain series of tasks to extract ultramarine blue from lapis lazuli. There were even artists who wrote down their “recipes” for paint pigments but you’d have to know alchemy to be able to read it.
It was very interesting
One of my favorite books
Nicholas Flamel popped by for tea and watched the video with me. He doesn't have a RUclips account any more - got banned for trolling - but wants me to pass on that it definitely wasn't him all those people claim to have seen
Yeah, he's like that.
No way he used to be my regular at work he tipped like shit
@@lilypryor9015to be fair, he probably hasn't changed how much he tips since tipping became a thing. I doubt he keeps up to date with inflation
Who?
@@lilypryor9015I know right?! When he would come to my local pub for his pint of lager and pie of the day every Friday, he’d tip us with this weird chuck of rock every time. Really started to get on our nerves, his wife was always a sweetheart tho
babe wake up, the esoteric history creature posted another video
Hope you don’t mind that I’m stealing that from you. “Ay yo! It’s that esoteric history creature!”
I’m sure I can work that into a rap song of some sort, but it’s 4:30 in the morning and I haven’t had my rapper’s delight yet. (Coffee. With lean.) 😅
Shit, I'm up.
Glad we can all learn from her
@@kdog3334I'm learnding!
@@kdog3334 *them. Sorry to be that guy lol
I have a very odd urge to rewatch Fullmetal Alchemist after this...(Parcelsus aka Philippus Aureolus Theophratsus Bombastus von Hohenheim had a bangin' name)
THAT'S WHERE VAN HOHENHEIM GOT HIS NAME?!?!!?!
unironically FMA did an amazing job with representing alchemy compared to most media, even if it was very fantastical. Hiromu Arakawa really did her research.
The symbol on Ed's coat (a snake on a cross) is also called the Flamel.
I thought the part where the dwarf in the flask says the whole name was added for giggles but woah ig not
BOMBASTIC!
if you will
you say "guess who we have to blame again" and i say "the victorians" like some kind of trained speech machine
Can I just say, I really appreciate the set dressing and costuming in all your videos. Thank you for putting in so much effort to make informative and aesthetically pleasing videos.
Yes! It really is nice to have the whole thing, if the creator is creative, if ya get me.
Aw 🩶. Wholesome compliment. Very theatre tech of you!
This’ll be a great listen for folding laundry today
im literally in premed because i had an alchemy obsession and my 6th grade chemistry teacher showed me how alchemists were the ones who discovered things like mineral acids and phosphorus. its fascinating how they narrowed down their principles and 2/3 of them are like. essential to life. salt and sulfur ………
You know, in the original Frankenstein novel, Victor got into medical science from studying alchemy as a kid, too. He studied alchemy, did what he could to wrap his head around it, then went to learn the real stuff- "philosophy of the sciences" I think they called it, which included anatomy and medicine.
You... you wouldn't happen to be planning on making a new form of life, would you?
@ oh my god i never knew this i thought i was having fun unique quirky life experiences but i have actually been following the exact same path as massive cultural icon victor frankenstein on accident.
lucky for you, i personally would never go out of my way to synthesize a new life form. i cant imagine creating a whole new obligation to socialize with, and i dont think i should give a homonculus an ipad
History's most successful alchemist was probably Avedis Zildjian, who didn't manage to turn base metals into gold, but *did* turn them into a great material for making cymbals. And given that the Zildjian company is still the world's leading cymbal manufacturer after 400 years, it's... sort of the same result.
Huh. I'm a percussionist and I didnt know thats where Zildjan came from. Cool!
It's really really funny that the true story of Nicholas Flamel is probably "Guy made a lot of money through inheritance and (possibly) land speculation, and for some reason a lot of people decide he's some kind of miracle worker."
What's even funnier is that this is also a decent summary of the last ten years of American politics.
Hits different now Elon Musk is in the government
9:01 The real Philosopher's Stone was the friends we made along the way.
😂😂😂
I love this 😂
This is unironically not far off
I’m a chemistry undergrad and it’s always fun to learn about the history of this field, I think a lot about how difficult it would be to comprehend and characterize chemicals and bonding and the effects they have on eachother without modern tools.
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i wonder if a lot of the popularity of alchemy among academics was like how research is now where the "alchemists" were looking for funding for their experiments and knew that getting people with money interested in more money was the way to get funding.
It varies, really. One Livonian general in the Swedish army was found to have deserted, and upon being called once again by Swedish authorities, he offered his alchemic skills as a way of indentured servancy. Roger Bacon dabbled in alchemy but he had a great deal of other areas to support him. Albertus Magnus seemingly just did alchemy as a wider range of his scholarly work, mostly translating older works.
i have dyslexia and I fully clicked on this video thinking it was about the academy of motion pictures and was really confused for about a minute
Lmao
Thank you for bringing awareness to the destruction caused by Hurricane Helene. I live just east of Asheville, we are ok, but so many aren't.
I love your videos, entertaining and educational!❤
my grandparents live near there too, i’m glad you’re okay they were out of power for days and all the roads around their house were flooded. my grandpa endangered himself to go to the local college to call us cuz no cell use either. and the bad irony is that their daughter-my aunt’s-name is Helene (pronounced Huh-Lan though). anywho this planet is crazy and i’m glad there are many OK but yeah it’s seriously still so nuts and dangerous for so many people, just in case anyone scrolls past this who does have money and needs some motivation to help i figired id throw an xtra story in. best wishes 🩵
I'm a simple gal. I see a new kaz rowe video, I watch while cutting up veggies for chicken noodle soup
cozy season be upon us
hey, I often watch these videos while cooking too! they're perfect for it 😊
Kaz Rowe never misses.
Your cat is literally perfect
Would you do a similar dive into the transition (transmutation?) of astrology into astronomy please.
After 450years Ive lost my frenxh accent but my dear wife still with her Parisian twang😅
I love your videos and it’s cool to kinda see a crossover thematically with Esoterica. That’d be a cool collab someday
I was thinking the same thing!
Was gonna come down here and recommend that channel to anyone who wants more alchemy info!
I reached out to Kaz a few months ago to see if they were interested in a collaboration. The production team asked me how much I would be willing to pay to do so and that was the end of the conversation. Regardless, it's a wonderful channel and I wish Kaz much success.
Oh, snap!
This video is opening my eyes to the degree by which Alchemy influenced media. Fullmetal Alchemist in particular
I love the book series The Alchemist which uses Flamel, Machiavelli, and other historical, mythical, and religious figures. Very good read, highly recommend
I read a book where Nicolas Flamel was a killer who had been stalking his wife through time and some journalist discovers the story. But, I’ve read several very good series where alchemy is at the core of the plot. A Discovery of Witches is the most recent. This was a great video. I know John Dee worked in Elizabeth I’s court and I think Isaac Newton was into Alchemy. It’s a fascinating topic for sure. Dr Sledge on the Esoterica channel has a wonderful series that explains what they actually believed and how they practiced as well as doing deep dives on ancient alchemical and hermetic texts. If you’ve never seen his channel, you might like it.
LOVE LOVE LOVE to see a video about alchemy!! Big special interest of mine. Larry Principe wrote my favorite book on the subject, he’s one of the only researchers who tries to recreate old alchemical mixtures to understand what the heck they were actually doing back then. Great guy!
I hope you're also watching Dr. Sledge over at Estoterica then, he did a great interview with Dr. Principe.
@@ChipSuey207 omg really?? I must have missed that one! Thanks for the heads up!!
@@ChipSuey207Hey,I watch Esoterica! Cool.
It's raining and I've got a cold so this is the perfect video to be under my blanket and a cuppa tea with, thank you
Chicken nuggets and chips after a full shift be like 😂
i recommend The Secrets of Alchemy by Lawrence M. Princippe,, professor emeritus of chemistry at Stanford University. largely due to his work recreating experiments from 16th century texts obscured by coded language and lack of historical scientific literacy, elevated alchemy from mere protochemistry to a science in its own right, worthy of reconsideration. scholarly and thorough, with detailed footnotes and a deep respect for both the subject matter and historization
I'm a Greek Mythology buff, to say first. I adored the video you made about the Oracle of Delphi.
I'd be extraordinarily interested in what you have to say about the air of the Trojan War and Heinrich Schliemann.
major win for the fullmetal alchemist fans in the audience (it's me i have loved the series for so long)
I saw Nicholas Flamel at my local coffee shop only yesterday. He was arguing with someone over the phone about how bitcoin was real.
Yessssssss, another Kaz Rowe banger
In some video games like World of Warcraft, Alchemy is a "profession" that players can choose to do on the side. Although it is possible to "transmute" metals with in-game alchemy, the profession is mainly focused on making potions and elixirs with herbs (and sometimes other ingredients). Baldur's Gate 3 has a similar system.
Love your video's Kaz, they definitely helped me make my decision to study history. I'm in my second year now and still can't believe that I get to hold century old texts bc of that !
also you can make gold out of other elements, through radioactivity :) it's not a really scalable process however
Some of it does scale however. Nagasaki learned the horrible implications of what is possible with elemental transmutation.
Clicked on this so fast! Used to explore the lore of alchemy a lot (thank you FMA 2003), so this was a nice refresher in many ways, and educational in many others!
Regarding the Pope John XXII and his alchemy, it may be he was more against "false alchemy" and his decretal was mainly against the "false alchemy" he perceived. And he may have felt this way because of studying alchemy in his youth. Speculation based on light reading though.
Re the question at 18:00 on the text attributed to John XXII. European alchemy isn't my specific area of expertise, and I don't know about John XXII's bibliography, but I believe that John XXII's ban was more directed at fraudulent alchemy (i.e. promising that imitation gold etc. was the real thing), rather than the entire pursuit, so it wouldn't surprise me if he wrote something on alchemy.
Isaac Newton was famously (or infamously) an alchemist - he considered his alchemical work far more important than anything else he ever did.
As someone allergic to wool I think it’s very funny that birch calls their mattresses allergen free
My mom has a respiratory allergy to latex, so she's another non-Birch customer. They sound nice, otherwise? 🤷♀️
This will probably sound like a douchey comment but they look and sound like rich people mattresses. Some of us poorer folks gotta sleep on fiberglass. I wish my biggest worry in life was whether or not my mattress was fiberglass free 😂
As a practicing magician in the same western medieval tradition that brings us alchemy, I'm thrilled to see you tackling this subject with your usual care and thoughtfulness. Can't wait to dive into the full video!
…so you are a snake oil salesman?
@@tudoraragornofgreyscot8482no they’re not an evangelical Christian
@@scapeagoat2520LMAOOOO
@@scapeagoat2520 mormons are the ones obsessed with essential oils lol
@@harls99 How is alchemy any different from faith healing or giving a bunch of money to a church?
If viewers are interested in pursuing the academic side of studying Alchemy and other esoteric arts, may I point you to Dr. Justin Sledge's channel, Esoterica. Fascinating stuff, even if sometimes difficult to understand.
What I love is that we get the french term "bain-marie" from Miriam (Mary the Jewess). Shows how there is untold history in languages
Great video as per usual hun!!!!
Just wanted to say that I got really excited when you mentioned Hermes Trismegistus and Hermeticism. Most sources on that stuff are very scholarly and not easy to understand so I wanted to ask if you’d ever consider making a video about Hermeticism. It’s fascinating as a medieval philosophy, and that’s not mentioning its modern day interpretations, and how it created The Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn, which then created modern Tarot as we know it today!
Anyway, I hope you consider it. However, as long as you’re making videos I’m happy :3
Yaaayyyy. So glad you're doing alchemy. I've always been so intrigued by it.
Truly, sincerely, I knew most of this. But holy shit Katz you are the single only (presumed) living, breathing person who’s actually talked about alchemy in the same depth that I researched it and it’s making the spicy brain so damn happy
That whole bit about 'mercury' and 'silver' reminded me of the fact that almost nobody made bronze in the Bronze Age. Not modern bronze, anyway. They made lots of different copper alloys which they thought of as bronzes and called bronze but which now would not be called bronze.
Thank you for another enlightening video, Kaz Trismegistus.
Was just binging your older videos so this came out at a perfect time for me!
My main exposure to Nicholas Flamel was in The Secrets of the Immortal Nicholas Flamel series by Michael Scott. Fun little romp through historic characters who are all immortal, like John Dee, Billy the Kid, and Joan of Arc.
Weirdly I've just been watching a lot of videos about alchemy from the fantastic channel Esoterica. This was really cool and well presented. Well done dispelling the myths around alchemy. It's a fascinating part of history.
The reason I like and, therefore, am subscribed to your channel is because of your efforts to provide the whole picture. You make it a point to go beyond the many similar others with their tunnel vision that educational enlightenment and, heck, even civilization, as we know it, began in Europe. Their personal bias, possibly from ignorant racist upbringing and adherence, tend to wall up their research within that wilful confinement. So, thank you, for your educations about the contributions of other country's and culture's on your subject matters. 💞 💗
That bit about Paracelsus and shifting from Galenic medicine towards pharmaceutica is really interesting. I had in my head that doctors were still reading Galen in the 19th century, which doesn't rule out chemical pursuits of medicine as a parallel route of inquiry... I just have so many questions now.
10:28 idk why i legit tought for a moment kaz was gonna say ''edward elric'' my brain is cooked
Me too! I was just thinking that 😂
The way you said Harry P*tter killed me, the cursèd texts lmao
its pretty wild that gold can actually be lab synthesized, the process is just so expensive, *much* more expensive than the small amount it makes, and the gold is INCREDIBLY radioactive
"in pop culture contexts" I might actually cry literally thank you so so so so much. 🖤🖤🖤
I am confused? For not mentioning the books of she who shall not be named ?
@yoyoyoyo-lq4jb yes
I think we need a shirt that says "Curse you, Victorians!" with an image of a shaking fist.
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For anyone interested in the chemistry behind alchemical claims, there's a great book called "The Chemistry of Alchemy: From Dragon's Blood to Donkey Dung, How Chemistry Was Forged" that goes over some of the historical background and delves into what the alchemists were doing, chemically, and why the claims of making gold might seem to be plausible. It was really fascinating!
I just wanted to say thank you for making informative and logical videos on these topics, you've helped me find a passion for history and reading again ❤️ you're a wonderful person Kaz !
kaz: ...pinpointing exactly where it came from is a difficult task due to the usual suspects...
me: ah, yes, the victorians
23:44 kaz: guess who we have to blame again??
me: THE VICTORIANS
Man I love you, I've been listening to the Magnus protocol which is going full alchemy and this video is perfectly timed
Yooo magnus protocol mention!!!!
16:36 Silly alchemists! Everyone knows you need turtle eggs and a portal to Hell for a gold farm.
I scrolled for sooooo long to find your comment after it popped up on the random comments bar just so I could like it and let you know how much it made me laugh!!! 😄
@@nmgg6928 I didn't think it was _that_ funny but thanks for the effort lol
@@Jacob-Sophia lol anytime. I'm a sucker for gaming jokes especially in ridiculous context 😁
Can we just get a round of applause for the props and background work Kaz always puts into their videos?
About to start organizing my sewing kit to this banger
Shout out to esoterica / Dr. Sledge! He specializes in the esoterica and even alchemized(?) himself a potion from an alchemist’s book (please don’t try it yourself though)
i'm at a loss for words, this is an absolutely great piece of research, consistent and sequential as it should be. thank you for quoting and citing the sources as well, I'm most certainly going to have a wonderful few days
Wow you dropped this video at the perfect time for me! I just started writing a story about wizards for myself and was going to include alchemy-like elements to my story. Good video :3
I love your videos on history and historical practices and this one in particular has given me a lot of inspiration for trying to make a magic system for a fantasy story I want to write
Thank you for sharing about the hurricane relief fund! The donations are how most of us here (eastern tn) have been getting by. The devastation is unreal. Thank you so much! ♥️
I'm forever grateful for my chemistry teacher who taught us a lot of this stuff (though I'd forgotten it after all these years and def learned some new stuff!)
Makes me realize he really went above and beyond
your inability to flop outfit-wise needs to be studied
loved this video (as always!), but i have a couple notes from ~9:00 - heads up that Carl Jung's name is pronounced "yoong" (it's a Swiss name so the sound is somewhere between an 'oo' and 'uh' sound, and the J is softened to a Y sound). also the stone you hold up seems to be a smoky quartz (it's hard to say for sure with the lighting).
last note, with the phrase "as above, so below" it's actually been mistranslated; it's supposed to be something closer to "the above is of the below and the below is of the above", which may seem like the same thing, but the mistranslation gives the idea of each reflecting the other, while the original is saying that they are inherently intertwined, similar to a yin yang idea of one cannot exist without the other and there is a harmony in the similarities and differences in each (I hope I've explained that in a way that makes sense - twitchywitch on TT has a great video about it)
please keep up the great work, i always look forward to your videos n_n
Thank you for mentioning mispronounciation of Jung’s name, which was strange to me considering he’s one of the most famous psychologists ever, but oh well…
I lost everything in hurricanes Helene and thank you for sharing! People in west NC & east TN need help the most still!!!
Keep doing what you’re doing!!! You’re providing beautiful, intellectual and mejestical content that is SO important for people to learn. 🖤
I'm just glad to finally have an answer to the question that's been bothering me for so long; that being how the hell did alchemy go from trying to create immortality and turning lead into gold, to the more common pop-culture depiction of crushing plants together to make medicines and poisons
This is spooky. I just started reading Frankenstein and they mention these alchemists!
To go super deep dive into all the history of Alchemy, definitely check out Dr. Justin Sledge over on Esoterica. He's definitely a major youtube authority on the subject!
Hi Kaz! I just wanted to tell you that I really love your videos and that I actually started remembering how much I love history when I first started watching maybe a year ago. Your content actually influenced me to take the advanced history course in 11th grade (german 11th grade btw. you are legally obligated to be in school until 10th grade here) and I’m actually surprisingly good in this class!! So I just wanted to thank you for all the great content and wanted to let you know that your videos do impact people’s lives :)
As an artist, I see it as a spiritual concept/practice...long before I ever tried psychedelics, my artwork had many symbolic, spiritual/alchemical symbols...it was only until last year until I drew all the parallels in my own art practice to modern alchemical practice...the refining of my own art, body, mind and soul to create "gold"
The moment I started to research masonry, alchemy and esoteric knowledge, my artwork became alot more impactful, and my use of symbolism was effective, and my career really took off, sales and gallery shows ❤
Really wish I could share pictures in the comments :/
For those interested in alchemy and adjacent fields, you should watch Esoterica with Dr. Justin Sledge, where we explore the arcane in history, philosophy, and religion.
The thumnail pic of this video is GIVING 👏Girl with the Pearl Earring, 👏Mona Lisa, 👏Astrological King, REALNESS and I am %100 here for this! ✨️🖼🎨🎉
Thank you for using your platform to help folks affected by the hurricanes.
"...known colloquially as Paracelsus, thank GAWWD" 😆
Like so many other historical curiosities, I had no interest in alchemy, and therefore had fallen for most of the popular misconceptions. Once again, thank you ✨😊✨
As both a(n ex-)HP fan and an FMA fan, this watch was elucidating on an life changing scale. Thank you so much 😂🙏
oh my god this is exactly what I wanted for halloween season thank you o glorious kaz rowe
I love learning about ancient astronomy and alchemy it’s such a vibe. Thank you 🌙
there’s a lot of RUclipsrs that march the outfit to the theme of the videos but yours are my favorite they always look great ❤
ohhhhhhh so thats where FMA got the Elric's dads name!
Yay my good day became great! Before I even finish watching ads I wanna say so happy to see you thx for being here and vibes are immaculate as usual
0:26 Girl you caught me drinking coffee with that one! 😂😂😂
This video is fantastic and I loved it, but also I’m SO obsessed with your cape/cloak/top? It’s really gorgeous.
Indeed people forget that people back then and in every other previous time period were no more stupid or less smart than we are today 🤷♀️ they were just as curious and innovative innovative all the same. The only advantage we have in modern times is that the people of the past laid the groundwork for us to keep achieving. Great video 😊
It's always a good day when you have a Kaz vid to watch!!!!!!
I legit get so excited when there is a new Kaz video! This one was so so good
Videos like this are the reason why I ring the bell to have every notification from this channel