Paul of Taranto to recreate the same metal that he started with, he obviously did not break the metal down into the pure elements, but instead into some intermediate phases. Paul of Taranto Paul of Taranto was a 13th-century Franciscan alchemist and author from southern Italy. (Taranto is a city in Apulia.) Perhaps the best known of his works is his "Theorica et practica", which defends alchemical principles by describing the theoretical and practical reasoning behind it. There is also evidence to suggest, however, that Paul is also the author of the much more widely known alchemical text "Summa perfectionis magisterii", generally attributed
James Taranto His final "Best of the Web Today" column was published on January 3, 2017, after he became editorial features editor. Before joining the "Wall Street Journal" in 1996, Taranto spent five years as an editor at "City Journal". He has also worked for the Heritage Foundation and "Reason" magazine. He pursued a degree in journalism at California State University, Northridge (CSUN) but "never bothered to graduate" after "conflict with teachers and professors". While attending CSUN, Taranto worked as news editor and also as one of two opinion page editors for the "Daily Sundial" student newspaper. On March 5, 1987, Taranto