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5000 bc - 400 bc
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Alchemy is believed to have originated in Egypt.
1200 bc - 2013 ad
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Indian alchemy was strongly related to metallurgy. Nagarjuna was an important Indian alchemist. Alchemy continues to be practiced in India.
332 bc - 642 ad
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The Greeks studied alchemy at the Library of Alexandria.
142 ad
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Wei Boyang wrote The Kinship of the Three.
700 ad - 1400 ad
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Islamic alchemy was systematic and had much in common with the science of chemistry. Jābir ibn Hayyān developed an experimental method for alchemy during the Islamic Golden Age.
800 ad - 2013 ad
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The Islamic study transitioned from classical alchemy into modern chemistry. Alkindus and Avicenna refuted transmutation, Rhazes refuted the four classical elements, and Tusi discovered conservation of mass.
1300 ad - 2013 ad
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European alchemists, such as Saint Albertus Magnus, built upon the foundations of Islamic alchemy. Alchemy is practiced in Europe and in the Western world in modern times.
1661 ad - 2013 ad
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Alchemy and chemistry began to diverge. Lavoisier wrote Traité Élémentaire de Chimie (Elements of Chemistry), Boyle wrote The Sceptical Chymist, and Dalton published his Atomic Theory.