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