A history of chemistry from earliest times to the present day : being also an introduction to the study of the science / by Ernst von Meyer ; translated with the author's sanction by George M'Gowan.

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1891
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Credit: A history of chemistry from earliest times to the present day : being also an introduction to the study of the science / by Ernst von Meyer ; translated with the author's sanction by George M'Gowan. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    TABLE OF CONTENTS PAGE LIST OF ABBEEVIATIONS . . . ... . xxi INTRODUCTION 1 CHAPTER I From the Earliest Times to the Birth of Alchemy . 7 Theoretical Views upon the Composition of Substances, and especially upon the Elements, 8. Aristotle's Elements, 9. The Empirical Chemical Kn/)wledge of the Ancients, 10. Metallurgy of the Older Nations—QolA, 13 ; Silver, Copper, Iron, 14 ; Lead, Tin, etc., 15 ; Mercury, 16. The Manufacture of Glass, 16. Pottery, 17. The Manufacture of Soap, 17. Dye- ing, 18. The beginnings of Pharmacy, 18. CHAPTER n The Age of Alchemy 21 General History of Alchemy . . . . . .23 Origin and First Signs of Alchemistic Efforts, 23. The Alex- andrian Academy, 25. The Alchemy of the Arabians—Geber and his Disciples, 27. Alchemy amon^ the Western Nations, 30. Albertus Magnus, Roger Bacon, 31. Arnaldus Villanovanus, Raymundus LuUus, 32. Basilius Valentinus, 35. Special History of Alchemy 37 Theories and Problems of the Alchemistic Period, 37. Geber, 38, 39. Views of Albertus Magnus, Basilius, etc., 40. The Philosopher's Stone, 42. Practical-Chemical Knoxoledge of the Alchemists, 44, Technical Chemistiy—Gold, 45. Silver, 46. Copper and other metals, 46. Pottery, Glass, Dyeing, 47. Pharmaceuiical Chemistry, 47.