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The Story of Alchemy and the Beginnings of Chemistry

 
  • Alchemy
  • M. M. Pattison Muir

by Pattison Muir

  • CHAPTER I. THE EXPLANATION OF MATERIAL CHANGES GIVEN BY THE GREEK THINKERS.
  • CHAPTER II. A SKETCH OF ALCHEMICAL THEORY.
  • CHAPTER III. THE ALCHEMICAL CONCEPTION OF THE UNITY AND SIMPLICITY OF NATURE.
  • CHAPTER IV. THE ALCHEMICAL ELEMENTS AND PRINCIPLES.
  • CHAPTER V. THE ALCHEMICAL ESSENCE.
  • CHAPTER VI. ALCHEMY AS AN EXPERIMENTAL ART.
  • CHAPTER VII. THE LANGUAGE OF ALCHEMY
  • CHAPTER VIII. THE DEGENERACY OF ALCHEMY.
  • CHAPTER IX. PARACELSUS AND SOME OTHER ALCHEMISTS.
  • CHAPTER X. SUMMARY OF THE ALCHEMICAL DOCTRINE. - THE REPLACEMENT OF THE THREE PRINCIPLES OF THE ALCHEMISTS BY THE SINGLE PRINCIPLE OF PHLOGISTON.
  • CHAPTER XI. THE EXAMINATION OF THE PHENOMENA OF COMBUSTION.
  • CHAPTER XII. THE RECOGNITION OF CHEMICAL CHANGES AS THE INTERACTIONS OF DEFINITE SUBSTANCES.
  • CHAPTER XIII. THE CHEMICAL ELEMENTS CONTRASTED WITH THE ALCHEMICAL PRINCIPLES.
  • CHAPTER XIV. THE MODERN FORM OF THE ALCHEMICAL QUEST OF THE ONE THING.
CHAPTER I. THE EXPLANATION OF MATERIAL CHANGES GIVEN BY THE GREEK THINKERS. ›
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