Annotation Depicting the lively careers of early scientists and their contributions in the 18th century, Morris skillfully brings the history of chemistry to life. He has been hailed by "Kirkus Reviews" as a "clear and lively writer with a penchant for down-to-earth examples." …
What we now call chemistry began in the cauldrons of mystics and sorcerers seeking not to make a better world through science, but rather to make themselves rich. But among these early magicians, frauds, and con artists were a few far-seeing alchemists who, through rigorous expe…
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This book is a collection of essays, written by an international group of historians of chemistry, about some of the most interesting chemists dating back into the 18th century. The contributing authors are well-established biographers, and their subjects make a diverse cast of …