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The narrative follows the rise and spread of alchemy, the search for the philosopher’s stone, and the cryptic symbolic language used to interpret processes. Later sections chart transitions through thinkers and traditions, culminating in phlogiston theories, atomic theory, classification of elements, and the emergence of organic chemistry, with a glossary and index included.","FROM ALCHEMYTO CHEMISTRYJOHN READ  \nFROM ALCHEMYTO CHEMISTRY  \nJOHN READ  \nDOVER PUBLICATIONS,INC.NEW YORK  \nPublished in Canada by General Publishing Company,Ltd.,30 Lesmill Road,Don Mills,Toronto,Ontario.  \nBibliographical Note  \nThis Dover edition,first published in 1995,is an unabridgedand unaltered republication of the 1961 corrected edition of thework originally published by G.Bell and Sons,Ltd,London,in1957 under the title Thrmugh Alchewy to Chemistry:A Processiom ofIdeas Ei Personalities,  \nLibrary of Congress Cataloging-in-Publicatim Data  \nRead,John,1884-  \n[Through alchemy to chemistry]  \nFrom alchemy to chemistry/John Read.  \nP.   cm.  \nOriginally publishcd:Through alchemy to chemistry.London:G.Bell,1957.  \nIncludes bibliographical references and index.  \nISBN 0-486-28690-8(pbk.)  \n1.Alchemy.2.Chemistry—History.I.Title.  \nQD26.R351995  \n540’.1'12—dc2095-6387  \nCIP  \nManufactured in the United States of AmericaDover Publications,Inc.,81 East 2nd Street,Mineola,N.Y.11501  \nTHE MANY COLLABORATORS AND OTHER FRIENDSTHAT HAVE TOIL'D,AND WROUGHT,AND THOUGHT WITH ME'IN DIVERS COUNTRIES AND CLIMES  \nThe systems which confront the intelligence remainbasically unchanged through the ages,although theyassume different forms...There is nothing sodisastrous in science as the arrogant dogmatism whichdespises the past and admires nothing but the present.  \nHOEFER  \nMoult plaist a Dieu procession,S'elle est faicte en devotionNICOLAS FLAMEL(1413)  \nCONTENTS  \nTITLES AND DESCRIPTIONS OF THE ILLUSTRATIONSPREFACEREFERENCES AND ACKNOWLEDGMENT3  \nCHAPTER I  \nBEGINNINGS  \nConcerning the Nature of Things.Concerning theApplication of Things.  \nCHAPTER II  \nTHE EMERGENCE OF ALCHEMY  \nRise and Spread of Alchemy.The Nature of Alchemy.Alchemical Theory.The Sulphur-Mercury Theory.Alchemical Representations of the Sulphur-MercuryTheory.   The Emerald Table of Hermes.   TheTria Prima of Paracelsus.  \nCHAPTER III  \nTHE PHILOSOPHER's STONE  \nThe Mainspring of Alchemy.Preparation of theStone.Processes of the Great Work.The Vase ofHermes.  \nCHAPTER IV  \nALCHEMICAL CRYPTICISM AND SYMBOLISM  \nThe Symbols of Alchemy.Alchemical Enigmas.The Figures of Abraham.An Alchemical Epic.The 'Mighty King'of Alchemy.The Twelve Keysof Basilius.  \nCHAPTER V  \nSTRANDS IN THE ALCHEMICAL WEB  \nReligion.Mythology.The Saturnine Mysticism.Number,Harmony,and Music.  \nPage  \nix  \nxiii  \nxvi  \n41  \nviii         FROM ALCHEMY TO CHEMISTRY  \n# CHAPTER VI\n\nTHE DIVERSTTY OF ALCHEMISTSPseudo-Alchemists.Labourers in the Fire.'Sons of Hermes.  The Practical Tradition.  \n# CHAPTER VII\n\nTHe PABTING OF THR WAys  \n95  \nParacelsus.The Paracelsians.Continuation of thePractical Tradition,'Wholly Scientifical Chymistry.'  \n# CHAPTER VIII\n\nTHE SwAN SoNG OF ALCHEMY  ..  117Chemistry and the Scientific Revolution.The Theoryof Phlogiston.The Earlier Period of Phlogiston.Forerunners of a New Age.The End—and theBeginning.  \n# CHAPTER IX\n\nTHE DEVELOPMENT OF MoDERN CHEMISTRY .I45Interregnum.The Atomic Theory.Some First-fruitsof the Atomic Theory.Classification and Nature ofthe Elements.  \n# CHAPTER X\n\nTHE RISE OF ORGANIC CHEMISTRY165Branches of Modern Chemistry.The Beginnings ofOrganic Chemistry.Organic Molecular Structure.Chemistry in Space.The Onward March,Envoi.  \nGLOSSARY .·    ·  I94INDEXI97  \n# TITLES AND DESCRIPTIONSOF THE ILLUSTRATIONS\n\nThe numbers in heavy type refer to illustrations in the plates;those in ordinary type to illustrations in the text;the platesface the pages indicated  \nPage  \nInitial Letter  \n1  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