Chemistry (CTP1)

Chemistry is an advance in Civilization: Call to Power.
==Summary==
Chemistry, the second Medical Advance, gives mankind the empirical knowledge to explain why fire burns, or why oil and water do not mix. Chemistry opens new fields of inquiry and helps guide man's future research into genetics and pharmaceuticals.
== Great Library entry ==
Through Alchemy and metallurgy, man has long tried to control his environment. However, only after the Age of Reason did man systematically study the process of chemical reactions. Beginning in the late 17th century and extending into the 18th, 19th, and early 20th century, scientists discovered oxygen and other elements and returned to the principles of atoms first proposed in Greek times.