Quote of the day
What we observe is not nature itself but nature exposed to our method of questioning. Our scientific work in physics consists in asking questions about nature in the language that we possess and trying to get an answer from experiment by the means that are at our disposal.
Basil Valentine

Born: 1394
Died: 1450 (aged 56)
Bio: Basil Valentine is the Anglicised version of the name Basilius Valentinus, ostensibly a 15th-century alchemist, possibly Canon of the Benedictine Priory of Saint Peter in Erfurt, Germany but more likely a pseudonym used by one or several 16th-century German authors.
Known for:
- The Twelve Keys of Basil Valentine
- The Triumphal Chariot of Antimony
- Les Douze clefs de la philosophie