The Story of Alchemy and the Beginnings of Chemistry

by M. M. Pattison Muir

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Contents

1. Preface
2. Chapter I. The Explanation of Material Changes Given by the Greek Thinkers
3. Chapter II. A Sketch of Alchemical Theory
4. Chapter III. The Alchemical Conception of the Unity and Simplicity of Nature
5. Chapter IV. The Alchemical Elements and Principles
6. Chapter V. The Alchemical Essence
7. Chapter VI. Alchemy as an Experimental Art
8. Chapter VII. The Language of Alchemy
9. Chapter VIII. The Degeneracy of Alchemy
10. Chapter IX. Paracelsus and Some Other Alchemists
11. Chapter X. Summary of the Alchemical Doctrine.—The Replacement of the Three Principles of the Alchemists by the Single Principle of Phlogiston
12. Chapter XI. The Examination of the Phenomena of Combustion
13. Chapter XII. The Recognition of Chemical Changes as the Interactions of Definite Substances
14. Chapter XIII. The Chemical Elements Contrasted with the Alchemical Principles
15. Chapter XIV. The Modern Form of the Alchemical Quest of the One Thing

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