Originally published in UK under the title: The Fontana history of chemistry.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

On the nature of the Universe and the Hermetic Museum -- The sceptical chymist -- Elements of chemistry -- A new system of chemical philosophy -- Instructions of the analysis of organic bodies -- Chemical method -- On the constitution and metamorphoses of chemical compounds -- Chemistry applied to arts and manufacturers -- Principles of chemistry -- On the dissociation of substances dissolved in water -- How to teach chemistry -- The chemical news -- The nature of the chemcial bond -- Structure and mechanism in organic chemistry -- The renaissance of inorganic chemistry -- At the sign of the hexagon.

Wilson's Senior High School

Wilson's Public Library

Library Journal

Recounts the rise of a sophisticated science, from the alchemists' futile attempts to turn lead into gold, through the emergence of the modern study of chemistry in the work of Boyle, Lavoisier, and Dalton, to the twentieth-century breakthroughs of Linus Pauling and others.

Adult