The Story of Alchemy and the Beginnings of Chemistry

The Story of Alchemy and the Beginnings of Chemistry

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Author: Muir, M. M. Pattison (Matthew Moncrieff Pattison),1848-1931
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Language: English
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The Story of Alchemy and the Beginnings of Chemistry

The Story of Alchemy and the Beginnings of Chemistry

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The Story of Alchemy and the Beginnings of Chemistry

$19.99 $9.99
Author: Muir, M. M. Pattison (Matthew Moncrieff Pattison),1848-1931
Format: eBook
Language: English

The Story of Alchemy and the Beginnings of Chemistry

The Story of Alchemy and the Beginnings of Chemistry is very interesting in itself. It is also a pregnant example of the contrast between the scientific and the emotional methods of regarding nature; and it admirably illustrates the differences between well-grounded, suggestive, hypotheses, and baseless speculations. I have tried to tell the story so that it may be intelligible to the ordinary reader. M.M. PATTISON MUIR. CAMBRIDGE, November 1902. A few small changes have been made. The last chapter has been re-written and considerably enlarged. M.M.P.M. FARNHAM, September 1913. For thousands of years before men had any accurate and exact knowledge of the changes of material things, they had thought about these changes, regarded them as revelations of spiritual truths, built on them theories of things in heaven and earth (and a good many things in neither), and used them in manufactures, arts, and handicrafts, especially in one very curious manufacture wherein not the thousandth fragment of a grain of the finished article was ever produced. The accurate and systematic study of the changes which material things undergo is called chemistry; we may, perhaps, describe alchemy as the superficial, and what may be called subjective, examination of these changes, and the speculative systems, and imaginary arts and manufactures, founded on that examination. ......Buy Now (To Read More)

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Ebook Number: 14218
Author: Muir, M. M. Pattison (Matthew Moncrieff Pattison)
Release Date: Nov 30, 2004
Format: eBook
Language: English

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