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Can You Make a Philosophers Stone Using Animal Lives Richard Bean , The University of Queensland ; Megan Piorko , Georgia State University , and Sarah Lang , University of Graz What cloak-and-dagger alchemical cognition could be so of import information technology required sophisticated encryption? The setting was Amsterdam, 2022. A conference organised by the Society for the History of Alchemy and Chemistry had just concluded at the Embassy of the Gratis Mind , in a lecture hall opened past historical-fiction writer Dan Brown. At the conference, Science History Found Postdoctoral Researcher Megan Piorko presented a curious manuscript belonging to English alchemists John Dee (1527–1608) and his son Arthur Dee (1579–1651). In the pre-modern world, abracadabra was a means to under