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The Story of Alchemy and the Beginnings of Chemistry
·
M. M. Pattison Muir
176
----
on
the
principle
of
acidity,
59,
155.
----
on
the
reactions
of
metals
with
acids,
158.
----
on
the
transmutation
of
water
to
earth,
152.
Lockyer,
on
spectra
of
elements,
181.
Lucretius,
his
theory
of
nature,
16.
Magic,
characteristics
of,
23,
24.
Material
changes,
Greek
theory
of,
15.
Metals,
alchemical
connexion
between,
and
plants,
34.
----
compared
by
alchemists
with
vegetables,
33.
----
mortification
of,
65.
----
seed
of,
34.
----
their
desire
to
become
gold,
40.
----
transmutation
of,
33,
39,
46.
Natural
state
of
bodies,
39,
43.
Oxygen,
144,
145.
Paracelsus,
his
description
of
alchemists,
25.
----
his
distinction
between
natural
and
artificial
mortification,
65.
----
sketch
of
life
of,
117.
Pelican,
92.
Perfection,
alchemical
teaching
regarding,
27,
40.
Phlogistic
theory,
133,
139.
Phlogiston,
126,
130,
137.
Priestley,
his
discovery
of
oxygen,
144.
Principles,
the
alchemical,
49,
51,
54,
60,
133.
----
Lavoisier's
use
of
the
word,
163,
note.
Radio-active
substances,
are
they
elements?
191,
194,
195;
properties
of,
185-187.
Radio-activity,
characteristics
of,
183,
184;
of
radium,
186;
of
thorium,
193;
of
uranium,
193.
Radium,
emanation
of,
187;
heat
from,
186;
rays
from,
186.
Ramsay,
on
transmutation
of
elements,
199.
Regimens,
the
alchemical,
72.
Sacred
art,
the,
122.
Scientific
theories,
general
characters
of,
21,
150.
Seed,
alchemical
doctrine
of,
56.
Seeds
of
metals,
34.
Simplicity,
asserted
by
alchemists
to
be
the
mark
of
nature,
28,
38.
----
is
not
necessarily
the
mark
of
verity,
138.
Solids,
liquids,
and
gases,
atomic
explanation
of,
19.
Stahl,
his
phlogistic
theory,
130.
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