From Alchemy to Chemistry (Dover Science Books)
By John Read.
Description
"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 PrefaceWritten for the layman, this accessible history takes a broad, humanistic perspective, eschewing chemical equations an...
ISBN(s)
0486286908, 9780486286907
