1. Edition - January 2007
73.90 Euro
2007. 664 Pages, Hardcover
- General Reading -
ISBN-10: 0-471-75154-5
ISBN-13: 978-0-471-75154-0 - John Wiley & Sons






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Short description
From Alchemy to Chemistry in Picture and Story gives readers an illustrated tour of how chemistry developed. Integrating the contents of his two earlier books, A Chemical History Tour and The Art of Chemistry, the author has included over 350 high-quality reproductions of figures from rare books spanning 400 years of chemical publications in his rare-book collection. The illuminating and entertaining essays that accompany each illustration explain the imagery's meaning and significance in the context of both historical scientific beliefs and modern chemical science. Several essays are new to this edition.

From the contents
Preface.

Suggestions for Further Reading and Touring.

Acknowledgments.

SECTION I. PRACTICAL CHEMISTRY: MINING, METALLURGY AND WAR.

SECTION II. SPIRITUAL AND ALLEGORICAL ALCHEMY AND CHEMISTRY.

SECTION III. MEDICINES, PURGES, AND OINTMENTS.

SECTION IV. AN EMERGING SCIENCE.

SECTION V. THE CHEMICAL REVOLUTION.

SECTION VI. A YOUNG DEMOCRACY AND A NEW CHEMISTRY.

SECTION VII. CHEMISTRY BEGINS TO SPECIALIZE, SYSTEMIZE, AND HELP THE FARM AND THE FACTORY.

SECTION VIII. TEACHING CHEMISTRY TO THE MASSES.

SECTION IX. CHEMISTRY ENTERS THE MODERN AGE.

SECTION X. SOME BRIEF CHEMICAL AMUSEMENTS.

Index.