The Story of Alchemy and the Beginnings of Chemistry

The Story of Alchemy and the Beginnings of Chemistry

M. M. Pattison Muir, chemist and author (1848-1931)


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Table of Contents

-01- About this book

-02- PREFACE

-03- NOTE TO NEW EDITION

-04- THE EXPLANATION OF MATERIAL CHANGES GIVEN BY THE GREEK THINKERS

-05- A SKETCH OF ALCHEMICAL THEORY

-06- THE ALCHEMICAL CONCEPTION OF THE UNITY AND SIMPLICITY OF NATURE

-07- THE ALCHEMICAL ELEMENTS AND PRINCIPLES

-08- THE ALCHEMICAL ESSENCE

-09- ALCHEMY AS AN EXPERIMENTAL ART

-10- THE LANGUAGE OF ALCHEMY

-11- THE DEGENERACY OF ALCHEMY

-12- PARACELSUS AND SOME OTHER ALCHEMISTS

-13- SUMMARY OF THE ALCHEMICAL DOCTRINE

-14- THE EXAMINATION OF THE PHENOMENA OF COMBUSTION

-15- THE RECOGNITION OF CHEMICAL CHANGES

-16- THE CHEMICAL ELEMENTS CONTRASTED WITH THE ALCHEMICAL PRINCIPLES

-17- THE MODERN FORM OF THE ALCHEMICAL QUEST OF THE ONE THING