Alchemy and Hermetic . "Royal Art" and "Art of Kings". The mysterious science that bound into a strong chain of magicians and adventurers, philosophers and draftsmen The alchemists were then taken as equals, then burned at the stake of the Holy Inquisition .. Here is the story of one of the LAST ALCHEMICALS in Europe . Continuation of the history of the hunt for the “gold of King Solomon” the longed-for dream of the adepts of “royal art”, in which Newton and Leibniz, Waterhouse and Thomas Newcomen take part A History of Mysteries and Adventures, Miracles and Mystic Discoveries . The third book of "The Baroque Cycle", which opened a new facet of Neil Stevenson's talent to the reader