From Alchemy to Chemistry history and criticism

history and criticism

ethnic religions

medical utensils

Written by a mathematician and an anthropologist

and still does today

From Alchemy to Chemistry history and criticism"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