Welcome to Alchemy

M·CAM has had many changes this summer… and the most recent one I express here with M·CAM’s welcoming into our community our newest member, Qianfan Wu! He is here to help as our newest quantitative analyst in our distillation for excellence!

Manly P. Hall states that “Ramon Llully who was one the great early alchemists, once point out that the great tragedy of the concept of alchemy was the transmutation of metals.” This misconception continues to reverberate in the current collective conscious in the modern era.  Alchemy one of the protoscientific tradition practiced in the history of Europe, Asia and Africa inspired the curiosity of notable figures such as Isaac Newton and Carl Jung. And… in Leonardo Da Vinci’s illustration of “The Vitruvian Man” one can extrapolate the alchemical symbol depicted above of “The Squared Circle”, also known as the philosopher’s stone. The illustration above is an interpretation of this very symbol and the inspiration for it is this period at the end of this summer as we move into the months of fall. This is that it may reminds us of the golden thread that held true in alchemy holds true in today chemistry. This is that it has always been the study of change that demands a notion of purity some where held in the concept of rationalizing the irrational with conviction.