1636: The Chronicles of Dr. Gribbleflotz Audiobook (Free)

A gleaming addition to the multiple New York Times best-selling Band of Fire alternate history series created by Eric Flint. An alchemist from the 17th hundred years confronts modern science with frequently amusing outcomes. Phillip Theophrastus Gribbleflotz, the world’s biggest alchemist and a great-grandson of Paracelsus-and a Bombast on his mother’s side-was a guy history had overlooked. But when the city of Grantville was transferred with a cosmic accident from modern Western Virginia to central Germany in about 1636: The Chronicles of Dr. Gribbleflotz the early seventeenth century, he got another chance at popularity and fortune. The world’s most significant alchemist will not make household goods. But with appropriate enticements Gribbleflotz is normally persuaded to create baking soda and then baking powder so the time-displaced People in america can continue to enjoy such culinary classics as biscuits and gravy. Applying his outstanding grasp of the concepts of alchemy to the muddled and puzzled notions the People in america have concerning what they contact ‘chemistry,’ Gribbleflotz leaves obscurity behind. In his relentless search for a method to invigorate the quinta important of the individual humors, Gribbleflotz has a central part in jump-starting the seventeenth century’s fresh chemical substance and marital helps industries-and pioneering such crucial fields of human knowledge as pyramidology and aura imaging. They are his chronicles.