This image may not be used to state or imply the endorsement by the Science History Institute of any product, service or activity, or to concur with a

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This image may not be used to state or imply the endorsement by the Science History Institute of any product, service or activity, or to concur with an opinion or confirm the accuracy of any text appearing alongside or in logical association with the image. Alchemist at work. 18th-century artwork showing an alchemist dropping a scorpion into a mixture being heated in a crucible on a furnace. At lower right are a manuscript and a skull. This artwork, titled 'The Alchemist', is an oil-on-canvas work attributed to Austrian artist Johann Martin Schmidt.

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