Table of Contents

Practical Chemistry in Antiquity; From Cosmogony to Cosmology; The Postsocratic Philosophers; Microphysics in Antiquity; Prelude to Alchemy Alchemy; The Medieval East; The Medieval West; The Apogee of Latin Alchemy; Medical Chemistry; Chemistry and Natural Philosophy; The Rise of the Chemist; On Matter and its Changes; Affinities; Metal Industries and the Science of Metals; Heavy Chemicals.