| Description |
xviii, 312 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 29 cm |
| Contents |
Machine derived contents note: Partial table of contents: -- Practical Chemistry, Mining, And Metallurgy. -- What Fresh Hell Is This? -- The Essence of Matter: Four Elements (or Five); Three Principles (or Two); or Three Subatomic Particles (or More). -- Practical Chemistry: Mining, Assaying, and Refining. -- Spiritual And Allegorical Alchemy. -- The Philosopher's Stone Can No Longer Be Protected By Patent. -- The Twelve Keys of Basil Valentine. First Key: The Wolf of Metals and the Impure King. -- What Is Wrong with this Picture? -- Protecting the Roman Empire's Currency from the Black Art. -- The Wordless Book. -- Iatrochemistry And Spagyricall Preparations. -- Paracelsus. -- The Dream Team of Alchemy. -- Distillation By Fire, Hot Water, Sand, or Steamed Boar Dung. -- Chemistry Begins To Emerge As A Science. -- The First Ten-Pound Chemistry Text. -- A Salty Conversation. -- The Alchemist in the Pit of My Stomach. -- Black's Magic. -- Cavendish Weighed the Earth but Thought He Had Captured Phlogiston in a Bottle. -- Saltpetre, Abigail. Pins, John. -- Modern Chemistry Is Born. -- Fire Air (Oxygen): Who Knew What and When Did They Know It? -- Nice to His Mice. -- Chemistry in the Barrel of a Gun. -- A Boring Experiment. -- Was Avogadro's Hypothesis a Premature Discovery? -- Chemistry Is Not Applied Physics. -- Chemistry Begins To Specialize And Helps Farming And Industry. -- The Electric Scalpel. -- Chemical Scalpels Through the Ages. -- Taming The Primeval Forest. -- The Atomic Weight of Carbon and Related Confusions. -- The People's Chemistry. -- Ink from Peanuts and the Finest Sugar in the South. -- Teaching Chemistry To The Masses. -- Michael Faraday's First Chemistry Teacher. -- "Chemistry No Mystery". -- Molecular Mechanics In The Year 1866. -- The Approach To Modern Views Of Chemical Bonding. -- Riding Pegasus to Visit Chemistry in Space. -- Is the Archeus a Southpaw? -- X-Rays Measure the Distances Between Atoms or Ions. -- Where Did We Dig Up The Mole? -- Nanoscopic "Heavens". -- Moving Matter Atom-By-Atom. -- Post-Script. -- Ending In Imagery. -- Index |
| Notes |
A Wiley-Interscience publication |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Subject |
Scientific illustration -- History.
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Chemistry -- History.
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| LC no. |
99038865 |
| ISBN |
0471354082 alkaline paper |
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