Story of Alchemy and the Beginnings of Chemistry
Publisher: Kessinger Publishing
Published: March 1997
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 208
ISBN-13: 9781564590190
Subjects: Religion: general; Body, Mind & Spirit; New Age / Body, Mind & Spirit; Science/Mathematics; Magick Studies
First sentence: 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.