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100	1		_aGreenberg, Arthur.
245	1	2	_aA chemical history tour : _bpicturing chemistry from alchemy to modern molecular science / _cby Arthur Greenberg.
260			_aNew York : _bJohn Wiley & Sons, _cc 2000.
300			_axviii, 312 p. : _bill. (some col.) ; _c29 cm.
500			_aA Wiley-Interscience publication.
504			_aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
505	2		_aPRACTICAL 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.
650		0	_aChemistry _xHistory.
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