These days, we would call them proprietary blends. But in the late 1500s and early 1600s, individual alchemists called the ...

A surprising scientific discovery in the remnants of Tycho Brahe’s workshop has revealed the presence of tungsten, an element ...

The 16th-century Danish astronomer Tycho Brahe was one of the most amazing figures in the history of science. Born in 1546 to ...

Danish Tycho Brahe was no exception. Consequently, we don't know precisely what he did in the alchemical laboratory located ... Only a few of his alchemical recipes have survived, and today ...

It turns out that Tycho Brahe, mostly known for his study of astronomy, had his own basement laboratory for mixing medicines—including some particular elements. Brahe’s famed observatory ...