The Story of Alchemy and the Beginnings of Chemistry

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Author

Muir, M. M. Pattison (Matthew Moncrieff Pattison), 1848-1931

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E-text prepared by Feòrag NicBhrìde, Victoria Woosley, and the Project Gutenberg Online Distributed Proofreading Team

Language

English

LoC Class

QD: Science: Chemistry

Subject

Chemistry -- History

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eBook-No.

14218

Project Gutenberg

https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/14218

Release Date

November 30, 2004

Copyright

Public domain in the USA.

Contents

1. 1.THE STORY OF ALCHEMY AND THE BEGINNINGS OF CHEMISTRY — BY
2. 2.M. M. PATTISON MUIR, M.A. — FELLOW AND FORMERLY PRÆLECTOR IN CHEMISTRY OF GONVILLE AND CAIUS COLLEGE, CAMBRIDGE — WITH EIGHTEEN ILLUSTRATIONS — NEW AND ENLARGED EDITION — The Useful Knowledge series — List of the first thirty-four volumes issued in the new style with Pictorial Wrappers:—
3. 3.PREFACE. — NOTE TO NEW EDITION.
4. 4.CONTENTS.
5. 5.LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS — THE STORY OF ALCHEMY AND THE BEGINNINGS OF CHEMISTRY.
6. 6.CHAPTER I — THE EXPLANATION OF MATERIAL CHANGES GIVEN BY THE GREEK THINKERS.
7. 7.CHAPTER II. — A SKETCH OF ALCHEMICAL THEORY.
8. 8.CHAPTER III. — THE ALCHEMICAL CONCEPTION OF THE UNITY AND SIMPLICITY OF NATURE.
9. 9.CHAPTER IV. — THE ALCHEMICAL ELEMENTS AND PRINCIPLES.
10. 10.CHAPTER V. — THE ALCHEMICAL ESSENCE.
11. 11.CHAPTER VI. — ALCHEMY AS AN EXPERIMENTAL ART.
12. 12.CHAPTER VII. — THE LANGUAGE OF ALCHEMY
13. 13.CHAPTER VIII. — THE DEGENERACY OF ALCHEMY.
14. 14.CHAPTER IX. — PARACELSUS AND SOME OTHER ALCHEMISTS.
15. 15.CHAPTER X. — SUMMARY OF THE ALCHEMICAL DOCTRINE.—THE REPLACEMENT OF THE THREE PRINCIPLES OF THE ALCHEMISTS BY THE SINGLE PRINCIPLE OF PHLOGISTON.
16. 16.CHAPTER XI. — THE EXAMINATION OF THE PHENOMENA OF COMBUSTION.
17. 17.CHAPTER XII. — THE RECOGNITION OF CHEMICAL CHANGES AS THE INTERACTIONS OF DEFINITE SUBSTANCES.
18. 18.CHAPTER XIII. — THE CHEMICAL ELEMENTS CONTRASTED WITH THE ALCHEMICAL PRINCIPLES.
19. 19.CHAPTER XIV. — THE MODERN FORM OF THE ALCHEMICAL QUEST OF THE ONE THING.
20. 20.INDEX
21. 21.FOOTNOTES

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