The Story of Alchemy and the Beginnings of Chemistry
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Chapter 1 THE EXPLANATION OF MATERIAL CHANGES GIVEN BY THE GREEK THINKERS.
Chapter 2 A SKETCH OF ALCHEMICAL THEORY.
Chapter 3 THE ALCHEMICAL CONCEPTION OF THE UNITY AND SIMPLICITY OF NATURE.
Chapter 4 THE ALCHEMICAL ELEMENTS AND PRINCIPLES.
Chapter 5 THE ALCHEMICAL ESSENCE.
Chapter 6 ALCHEMY AS AN EXPERIMENTAL ART.
Chapter 7 THE LANGUAGE OF ALCHEMY
Chapter 8 THE DEGENERACY OF ALCHEMY.
Chapter 9 PARACELSUS AND SOME OTHER ALCHEMISTS.
Chapter 10 SUMMARY OF THE ALCHEMICAL DOCTRINE.-THE REPLACEMENT OF THE THREE PRINCIPLES OF THE ALCHEMISTS BY THE SINGLE PRINCIPLE OF PHLOGISTON.
Chapter 11 THE EXAMINATION OF THE PHENOMENA OF COMBUSTION.
Chapter 12 THE RECOGNITION OF CHEMICAL CHANGES AS THE INTERACTIONS OF DEFINITE SUBSTANCES.
Chapter 13 THE CHEMICAL ELEMENTS CONTRASTED WITH THE ALCHEMICAL PRINCIPLES.
Chapter 14 THE MODERN FORM OF THE ALCHEMICAL QUEST OF THE ONE THING.
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Chapter 11 THE EXAMINATION OF THE PHENOMENA OF COMBUSTION.

The alchemists thought that the most effectual method of separating a complex substance into more simple substances was to subject it to the action of heat. They were constantly distilling, incinerating, subliming, heating, in order that the spirit, or inner kernel of things, might be obtained. They took for granted that the action of fire was to s

             
            

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