Thomas Thomson

PREFACE.

CONTENTS OF THE FIRST VOLUME.

INTRODUCTION.

CHAPTER I. OF ALCHYMY.

CHAPTER II. OF THE CHEMICAL KNOWLEDGE POSSESSED BY THE ANCIENTS.

CHAPTER III. CHEMISTRY OF THE ARABIANS.

CHAPTER IV OF THE PROGRESS OF CHEMISTRY UNDER PARACELSUS AND HIS DISCIPLES.

CHAPTER V. OF VAN HELMONT AND THE IATRO-CHEMISTS.

CHAPTER VI. OF AGRICOLA AND METALLURGY.

CHAPTER VII. OF GLAUBER, LEMERY, AND SOME OTHER CHEMISTS OF THE END OF THE SEVENTEENTH CENTURY.

CHAPTER VIII. OF THE ATTEMPTS TO ESTABLISH A THEORY IN CHEMISTRY.

CHAPTER IX. OF THE FOUNDATION AND PROGRESS OF SCIENTIFIC CHEMISTRY IN GREAT BRITAIN.

ANCIENT HISTORIANS, POETS, and c.

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THE
HISTORY
OF
CHEMISTRY.
BY
THOMAS THOMSON, M.D. F.R.S.E.
PROFESSOR OF CHEMISTRY IN THE UNIVERSITY OF GLASGOW.
IN TWO VOLUMES.
VOL. I.
LONDON:
HENRY COLBURN, AND RICHARD BENTLEY,
NEW BURLINGTON STREET.
1830.
C. WHITING, BEAUFORT HOUSE, STRAND.