TY  - BOOK
AU  - Greenberg,Arthur
TI  - A chemical history tour: picturing chemistry from alchemy to modern molecular science 
SN  - 0471354082 (alk. paper)
AV  - QD11 .G74 2000
U1  - 540/.9 21
PY  - 2000///
CY  - New York
PB  - John Wiley & Sons
KW  - Chemistry
KW  - History
N1  - A Wiley-Interscience publication; Includes bibliographical references and index; 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
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