PUBLISHERS' NOTE
CONTENTS
HISTORY OF CHEMISTRY
CHAPTER I The Chemistry of the Ancients
CHAPTER II The Chemical Philosophy of the Ancients
CHAPTER III Alchemy
CHAPTER IV The Philosopher's Stone
CHAPTER V Iatro-Chemistry
CHAPTER VI "The Sceptical Chemist": The Dawn of Scientific Chemistry.
CHAPTER VII Phlogistonism
CHAPTER VIII Lavoisier and La REvolution Chimique
CHAPTER IX The Atomic Theory
CHAPTER X The Beginnings of Electro-Chemistry
CHAPTER XI The Foundations of Organic Chemistry
CHAPTER XII The Rise of Physical Chemistry
BIBLIOGRAPHY Relating to the Period Covered by Vol. I.
INDEX
Transcriber's Notes
A HISTORY OF THE SCIENCES
HISTORY
OF
CHEMISTRY
BY
Sir EDWARD THORPE,
C.B., LL.D., F.R.S.
AUTHOR OF “ESSAYS IN HISTORICAL CHEMISTRY,” “HUMPHRY DAVY:
POET AND PHILOSOPHER,” “JOSEPH PRIESTLEY,” ETC., ETC.
TWO VOLUMES
I.
From the Earliest Times to the Middle of the Nineteenth Century
WITH ILLUSTRATIONS
G. P. PUTNAM’S SONS
NEW YORK AND LONDON
The Knickerbocker Press
1909
Copyright, 1909, by
G. P. PUTNAM’S SONS
This series is published in London by
The Rationalist Press Association, Limited
