Alchemy Tricks

I have read and reread the All Souls Trilogy, by Deborah Harkness.

1st book in the series!!!
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On a trip back in time the main character, Diana Bishop, befriends the Mary Sidney, an Elizabethan woman with a passion for alchemy. As part of the story the two set out to make the tree of life... You'll have to read the book to see how the tree grows.

But as I was clicking through the internet, I stumbled upon the TheBackyardScientist's youtube channel and after watching some of his videos I found some alchemy among other exploding things.

How to grow a lead crystal tree! Watching the video you can see why some people thought this was magic.