Caption: Booklet - Addresses from Inauguration of Noyes
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44 transmutation of die clement * dead and every chemist who heard bim ai'r d with bis statement Bui such n rotational rid startling discoveries have been made since then that a transmutation of the elements must now be considered ;is fin i ompli ! i fact. This new discovery of transmutation did not come, however, al the paths the alchemists were following. Th paths were mostly blind alleys leading nowhere, though, now and again, some new fact about the way substances act on each other was discovered. And in spite of iis obscure and mystical symbols and lit ture, and although the methods of experimentation were often more allied to magic and astrolo v than to science, alchemy left us a valuable inheritance of tperimental knowledge. I\lany who took up the pursuit of alchemy from a desii for gold doubtli s continued to work from a pUT love of experiment. Tn the sixteenth c ntury some of thos who had busied themseh 9 with alchemy conceived the idea that chemistn might l r of service to medicine. \ ^v one hundred 3 ars or more, the most notable of the chemists followed chiefly this new din fion. They did not, however, discard the belief in the transmutation of metals. It \ I an age when authority still unit, i I r V( py much and it seemed to them imp libL to disbelieve the many circumstantial accounts of transmutation w Inch had .vino down tO them, often from source > that med thoroughly reliable, b< can inse lliey despaired ^f they found other thine But, either • or < he to d o which sma
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