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The magic formula
A coded manuscript. A five-hundred-year-old secret. An alchemical claim that may be more than a legend.
Salzburg, 1541.
Paracelsus—physician, scientist and alchemist—is searching for something generations of scholars have believed impossible: a formula capable of transforming base metals into gold.
But as he draws closer to the secret, he realizes that knowledge can be more dangerous than ignorance. Powerful men want what he has discovered—not to understand it, but to possess it.
Paracelsus conceals his knowledge behind an enigma designed to outlive him.
Then he dies.
And the formula disappears for nearly five centuries.
