universal alchemical phases to occur: black, white, and red. If all steps are followed correctly, "you will have a truly gold-making elixir by whose benevolence all the misery of poverty is put to flight and those who suffer from any illness will be restored to health," the text states. While alchemy has been regarded as pseudoscience for centuries, a number of academics have voiced an interest in attempting to recreate Dee's experiment. Death and aftermath Arthur Dee, having fathered seven sons and six daughters, died in September or October 1651 and was buried in St George's Church, Tombland, Norwich. Most of his alchemical manuscripts and books were bequeathed to Sir Thomas Browne. In the early 20th century, Rasputin stole a number of Arthur Dee's Russian translations of his father's writings. These were later reclaimed by the Romanov family and returned to the Imperial Library in Moscow. References Charlotte Fell-Smith, John Dee (1909) Constable & Company, London . External links Fasciculus Chemicus or Chymical Collections. Expressing the Ingress, Progress, and Egress, of the Secret Hermetick Science out of the choicest and most famous authors London, 1650 1579 births 1651 deaths People educated at Westminster School, London 16th-century English medical doctors 17th-century English medical doctors English alchemists English occult writers 17th-century occultists 16th-century alchemists 17th-century alchemists