Recent popular fiction has returned the sorcerer s stone to the collective imagination. But for the great minds of the Middle Ages, the legendary alchemical tool was anything but fictional. — Fervently sought after by medie... more »val alchemists, the so-called sorcerer s stone was reputed to have the power to transform base metals into gold and grant long life even immortality. Now, discover how the elements that made up the powerful stone were hidden in bizarrely coded manuscripts and how the processes required to combine them were thought to be extremely dangerous and even deadly. Finally, explore the history behind alchemy, and learn how we owe most of our modern lab equipment and experimental techniques to the efforts of alchemists.
Why were alchemists convinced that the sorcerer s stone existed? To what extremes did they go to discover it? Did any of them actually succeed? Join HISTORYTM as it unlocks the mystery behind these, and many other questions, in THE REAL SORCERER S STONE.« less