Phillip Theophrastus
Gribbleflotz, the world's greatest alchemist and a great-grandson of
Paracelsus—and a Bombast on his mother's side—was a man history had
forgotten. But when the town of Grantville was transported by a cosmic
accident from modern West Virginia to central Germany in the early
seventeenth century, he got a second chance at fame and fortune.
The world's greatest alchemist does not make household goods. But with
suitable enticements Gribbleflotz is persuaded to make baking soda and
then baking powder so that the time-displaced Americans can continue to
enjoy such culinary classics as biscuits and gravy. Applying his superb
grasp of the principles of alchemy to the muddled and confused notions
the Americans have concerning what they call “chemistry,” Gribbleflotz
leaves obscurity behind.
In his relentless search for a way to invigorate the quinta essential
of the human humors, Gribbleflotz plays a central role in jump-starting
the seventeenth century’s new chemical and marital aids industries—and
pioneering such critical fields of human knowledge as pyramidology and
aura imaging. These are his chronicles.
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Phillip Theophrastus Gribbleflotz, the world's greatest alchemist and a great-grandson of Paracelsus—and a Bombast on his mother's side—was a man history had forgotten. But when the town of Grantville was transported by a cosmic accident from modern West Virginia to central Germany in the early seventeenth century, he got a second chance at fame and fortune.The world's greatest alchemist does not make household goods. But with suitable enticements Gribbleflotz is persuaded to make baking soda and then baking powder so that the time-displaced Americans can continue to enjoy such culinary classics as biscuits and gravy. Applying his superb grasp of the principles of alchemy to the muddled and confused notions the Americans have concerning what they call “chemistry,” Gribbleflotz leaves obscurity behind.
In his relentless search for a way to invigorate the quinta essential of the human humors, Gribbleflotz plays a central role in jump-starting the seventeenth century’s new chemical and marital aids industries—and pioneering such critical fields of human knowledge as pyramidology and aura imaging. These are his chronicles.