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The story of alchemy and early chemistry (The story of early chemistry)

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non fiction

The story of alchemy and early chemistry (The story of early chemistry)

538062

Originally published under the title The Story of Early Chemistry. Tells the story of the development of chemical knowledge and science, from the beginning of time to the end of the 18th century

The practical chemistry of the ancients. -- The earliest chemical manuscripts. -- Theories of the ancients of matters and its changes. -- The early alchemists. -- Chemical knowledge of the Middle Ages. -- Chemistry in the thirteenth century. -- Chemistry of the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries. -- The progressive sixteenth century. -- Chemical currents in the sixteenth century. -- Chemistry of the seventeenth century. -- The eighteenth century -- rise and fall of the philogiston theory. -- The development of pneumatic chemistry in the eighteenth century. -- Early ideas of chemical affinity. -- Lavoisier and the chemical revolution

Alchemy and early chemistry