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Show Fraudulent Alchemists. Discussing the work of Roger Bacon, regarded as the greatest philosopher of the Thirteenth century, Prof. William Wil-liam Romaine Newbold of the University Uni-versity of Pennsylvania, who has succeeded suc-ceeded in finding a key to this wonderful won-derful hook, speaks of numerous references to alchemy. In Bacon's time alchemy was considered a science and we lime records of many workers, some of them honest In their beliefs, but many of them were simply Impostors Im-postors using the desire for gold to obtain large sums of money from their credulous victims, the New York Sun explains. |