These days, we would call them proprietary blends. But in the late 1500s and early 1600s, individual alchemists called the medicines they cooked up in their labs ‘secrets’. And thanks to a study ...

Two artists in the northwestern Turkish city of Bursa have combined miniature art with the astrolabe, an ancient astronomical ...

Researchers have found pages of a rare medieval manuscript masquerading as a cover and stitched into the binding of another ...

Would you tell us a little bit more about it? Grollemond: Sure, the exhibition is called Rising Signs: The Medieval Science of Astrology. And what I really wanted to do with this exhibition ...

Editor’s note: A version of this story appeared in CNN’s Wonder Theory science newsletter ... it was made of pages repurposed from a medieval manuscript. Known as the “Suite Vulgate du ...

Alchemy in the Middle Ages was more than just the pursuit of gold – it was a blend of science, mysticism, and philosophy that captured the imagination of scholars across Europe.