I came across an article on Brain Pickings detailing the art of alchemy and other pseudosciences from around the world.

From Persia to Glasgow, ancient China and the Netherlands, the human mind is too curious not to simply try, no matter how quirky or impossible the task at hand may seem to be. The image below is from “Magic Shows,” a summer edition dedicated to “all things magical, around the globe and throughout time,” featured in magazine Lapham’s Quarterly.

Click here to check it out.

By the way, I’m headed to Salt Lake City at the moment – this is the first post I’ve ever published while still in the air!