The Birth of Chemistry
Publisher: Valentin Chirosca
Published: 2014
Place of publication: USA
Language: eng
Format: Paperback; Print on demand
Number of pages: 95
ISBN-13: 9781501063237
Table of contents: title: PREFACE.; label: CHAPTER I.
title: Introduction—Ancient Science—Origin of Chemistry—Definition of the Name—Definitions of Chemical Science; label: CHAPTER II.
title: Early ideas relative to the formation of the World—Thales of Miletus — Later Beliefs in his Doctrine—Anaximenes—Empedokles— Herakleitos—Anaxagoras—Demokritos—The Atomic Theory— Aristotle—The Ethereal Medium—Transmutation of the Elements —The Four-element Theory—Mode of interpreting it—Cause of the absence of Natural Science among the Ancients; label: CHAPTER III.
title: Practical Chemistry of the Ancients. — Metallurgy: Gold, Silver, Elect rum, Copper, Bronze, Tin; label: CHAPTER IV.
title: Iron, Lead, Quicksilver—Colors used for Painting and Dyeing—Glass —Certain Minerals known to the Ancients—Miscellaneous Processes; label: CHAPTER V.
title: Association of the seven Metals with the seven greater Heavenly Bodies—Consequent introduction of. Symbols into the history of Matter; label: CHAPTER VI.
title: The Alchemists—Origin of Alchemy — Hermes Trismegistus—Greek MSS. on Alchemy—Their probable Authorship and Age.; label: CHAPTER VI.
title: The Alchemists—Origin of Alchemy — Hermes Trismegistus—Greek MSS. on Alchemy—Their probable Authorship and Age.; label: CHAPTER VIII.
title: Avicenna—Albertus Magnus—S. Thomas Aquinas—Roger Bacon— Raymond Lulli—Arnoldus de Villa Nova—George Ripley—Basil Valentine; label: CHAPTER IX.
title: General Character of Alchemy and the Alchemists—The Pretiosa Margarita Novella —An Alchemical Allegory—Alchemical Symbols —Paracelsus—Libavius; label: CHAPTER X.
title: Early Ideas concerning the Process of Combustion—Association of Nitre with the Air, so far as the part they play in Combustion is, concerned—Hooke's Theory of Combustion—Mayow's Experiments—Early Pneumatic Chemistry—Proof of the Analogy existing between Respiration and Combustion; label: CHAPTER XI.
title: The Theory of Phlogiston—Comparison with Hooke's Theory of Combustion—Early Ideas regarding Calcination—Stephen Hales—His Pneumatic Experiments—Boerhaave—Conclusion.; title: Notes