The Story of Alchemy and the Beginnings of Chemistry
M. M. Pattison Muir
A Cambridge chemist tells how the search for the philosophers' stone turned into laboratory science. Muir follows the theory of the elements from Alexandria to Boyle and Lavoisier, with eighteen illustrations.
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