Shards from famed astronomer's garden show secret alchemy lab details

Alchemists have become most famous for trying to turn lead to gold, but they also created medicinal potions, especially for the wealthy class

Tycho Brahe is best known as a Danish Renaissance astronomer. But he was also a bit of an alchemist, and a first-ever analysis on shards found at his former home from the 1500s has shed some light on just what he was up to in his basement lab.

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