| For instance, Charles II of England attempted transmutations and even Sir Isaac Newton spent considerable time decoding alchemical books. |
| In the various scientific botanical gardens of the Renaissance, scented plants were plumbed for possible alchemical properties. |
| Carim Clasmann's musical youth was spent in German recording studios learning the alchemical business of faders, compressors and microphones. |
| Perhaps it was fashioned of wood or a metal that had been through an alchemical process all its own. |
| Somehow this alchemical process turns it from a cooling herb to a tonic herb. |
| Kessler's play is less alchemical than Polke's, but the impulse to incorporate the elements into a painting is the same. |
