The similarity between modern chemistry and alchemy is to create new things from the molecular level  As for the creation of new elements, it is actually the task of nuclear physicists  They use some cyclotrons to blast the new elements out and fill them in the periodic table as chemistry  The fruits of home victory  Classical alchemy actually has the idea of elements and atoms, but it does not possess rational thinking  For example, Europeans in the Middle Ages believed that light, heavy, dry, and wet are the basic physical properties  Dry and light are fire, dry and heavy are soil, wet and light are air, and wet and heavy are water  Any matter is the result of the synthesis of the four basic elements of water, fire, earth, and air in different proportions, which is obviously different from the current concept of the known world
At the same time, the understanding of material nature in other civilizations was also between mystery and rationality
Various ideas about elements in the knowable world