From Alchemy to Chemistry

by John Read

Book Overview

"Chemistry, in particular, is capable, when suitably presented, of making a strong appeal to the intelligence and the imagination; for, as the following pages are intended to show, it is the most romantic of all the branches of science; and in its variegated history, stretching back through unnumbered generations of alchemists into an indefinite past, its present votaries have (if they but knew) a richly human and humanistic heritage." -- from the...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0486286908
• ISBN13: 9780486286907
• Release Date: November 2011
• Publisher: Dover Publications
• Length: 256 Pages
• Weight: 0.60 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 5.4" x 8.5"