The book of the alchemist

Porta Alchemica

An alchemist’s “magic door” stands in the middle of a Roman park

While this “magic door” is famous to Romans, it is barely noticed by tourists visiting Rome. But in the central district of Piazza Vittorio, inside the Park, the remains of an old Villa reveal a Magic or Alchemist Door, a portal into the real and secretive world of 1600s alchemy.

Full of symbols and inscriptions, it was built during the early 1600s by the Roman marquis Massimiliano Palombara, a member of a group of people known as “The Alchemists of Palazzo Riario,” who congregated around the Roman court of Christina of Sweden the Queen Regent of Sweden. Christina was an ardent supporter of alchemy and science and thinkers and science luminaries like Decarte and Athanasius Kircher were often found in her Italian court, along with alchemy enthusiasts like Massimiliano Palombara.

The only remaining of five gate doors to the Marquis Palombara’s villa, according to legend, the Marquis met an alchemist at a dinner party who told him could use a certain herb to turn metals to gold. In the morning the alchemist (said to be Giuseppe Francesco Borri, a sort of alchemical zelig) was gone but had left behind some gold flakes, evidence apparently of his successful transformations, and an indecipherable sheet, the “recipe” for the transformation. Because the Marquis was unable to read it he inscribed the recipe on his doors in the hope that someone who could understand it would see it and come knocking.

Mystery and occult beliefs still surround the door, and a mysterious symbol above the doorway fuels many of these theories. But of course, to most visitors to Rome, its yet just another mysterious ruin.

Alchemist’s Lab

Lead to Gold Alchemy Array

-Intstructions-
The way we will start is by laying a large chunk of lead in the upper part of the transmutation circle on the symbol for lead (the funky Z looking thing). From there, the lead is ripped apart! This is done by that fancy circle around the lead. It does some nuclear fission to create gold with an atomic wait of 197 (thats the average for gold). We will also have leftovers of 3 protons (p+), 3 electrons (e-), and 7 neutrons (n). These will not be discharged from the transmutation circle, so we wont need to worry about any radiation related deaths.
So what will we do with the extra stuff? Transmute it, of course! We could have some fun and make radioactive lithium batteries, but that would take to much time. In stead, we can carbon from whats left over. But to simply create carbon would be much to simple.
First, 2 of the neutrons are split to form 2 electrons and 2 protons. This happens in the bottom left array. Now we have a balance of 5 all. But dont think we are going to make boron. We are going to keep the p+’s, e-’s, and n’s seperate. Every alchemic step, 5 of the p+’s, n’s, and e-’s are sent into the buttom right array. Once there are 6p+’s, 8e-’s, and 6n’s, they are fused to make carbon. This carbon is set to the side where other carbon can come and bond with it under massive amounts of heat and preasure so we get diamond.
By the end of this transmutation, you would be rich with both gold and diamond.

(Source: notshurly.deviantart.com)