The Story of Alchemy and the Beginnings of Chemistry
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By M. M. Pattison Muir 22 Oct, 2018
The Story of Alchemy and the Beginnings of Chemistry by M. M. Pattison Muir 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 o ... Read more
The Story of Alchemy and the Beginnings of Chemistry by M. M. Pattison Muir 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. Less
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Matthew Moncrieff Pattison Muir, FRSE, FCS was a chemist and author. He taught chemistry at Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge and was head of the Caius Laboratory there. Although he published some...
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