Many of the elements they found were what any alchemist would have on hand. But the presence of tungsten was extremely ...

The chemical element, also known as wolfram ... the island of Ven to Brahe as a place to build his observatory and alchemy lab. The estate served as a home and a scientific research center ...

The site served as a combined residence, observatory and laboratory for Danish Renaissance astronomer and alchemist Tycho Brahe. More Public Domain Four of these elements—copper, antimony ...

None of these elements surprised the researchers. An alchemist working for elite members of society would have employed gold and mercury to combat a wide range of diseases. But the researchers ...

Tungsten wouldn't be isolated for nearly 200 more years, making it an unknown element at the time. One of history's leading 16th-century astronomers, Tycho Brahe, was also an alchemist who kept ...