In addition to these influences, alchemy has also had an effect on the modern development of metallurgy and the chemical process for making dyes. It is also worth point out, that many of the alchemists also worked in medicine and developed pharmaceuticals.

Alchemy helped improve the study of metallurgy and the extraction of metals from ores. More systematic approaches to research were developed, although the idea of orderly scientific experimentation had not yet become well-established. The groundwork was laid for the development of chemistry as a foundational science.

Even though they were secretive and self-deluded and their practices closer to magic than modern scientific methods, historians say, alchemists contributed to the emergence of modern chemistry as a science and an agent of commerce.

Alchemists attempted to purify, mature, and perfect certain materials. This late medieval tradition of alchemy would go on to play a significant role in the development of early modern science (particularly chemistry and medicine).

Alchemists invented experimental techniques (distillation, for example) and laboratory tools (funnels, flasks, cupels, etc.) still used by chemists today. They were also the first to isolate certain metals we now know to be elements, including antimony, arsenic and zinc.

Alchemy, being the art of allegedly changing base metals(common metals) as lead, iron, copper, zinc, tin, etc. into gold allegedly practiced centuries and centuries ago, and even thousands of years ago. Actually, we humans never achieved such seemingly magical alchemy, as in legends and stories, on earth.

Alchemy is best described as a form of ‘proto-science’ rather than a distinct science in its own right. This is because, although many observations and theories made by alchemists were based on scientific fact, they often explained these in terms of ‘magic’ or divine intervention.

Originally Answered: Why don’t we accept alchemy as scientific? Because it isn’t. Alchemy is built on a false premise: by applying chemical operations (distilling, burning, mixing with acids, filtering, etc.) to various substances, elements can be transmuted. In particular, lead can be transmuted into gold.

The late William H. Religion and science are indeed incompatible. Religion and science both offer explanations for why life and the universe exist. Science relies on testable empirical evidence and observation. Religion relies on subjective belief in a creator.

Having the appropriate neeyat (intention) in your heart, You say the first takbir while raising your hands, then you fold and hold your hands on your chest in the usual manner, the right hand on the left, then you seek refuge with Allah from the accursed Shayṭan, then you utter Bismillah and recite Al-Fatiha.

Abu Musa Jabir Ibn Hayyan Al-Azdi

Antoine Lavoisier

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According to Ibn al-Nadīm, Jabir hailed from Khurasan (eastern Iran), but spent most of his life in Kufa (Iraq). If, however, he was a non-Arab Muslim client of the Azd, he is most likely to have been Iranian, given his ties with eastern Iran (his nisba al-Ṭūsī also points to Tus, a city in Khurasan).