The Story of Alchemy and the Beginnings of Chemistry

INDEX Air, ancient views regarding, 129. ---- views of Mayow and Rey regarding, 129. Alchemical account of changes contrasted with chemical account, 169. ---- agent, the, 64. ---- allegories, examples of, 41, 97. ---- classification, 59. ---- doctrine of body, soul, and spirit of things, 48. ---- doctrine of transmutation, 47, 74, 123, 170. ---- language, 36, 96, 101, 102. ---- quest of the One Thing, modern form of, 179. ---- signs, 105. ---- theory, general sketch of, 26. Alchemists, character of, according to Paracelsus, 25. ---- made many discoveries, 87. ---- sketches of lives of some, 115. ---- their use of fanciful analogies, 31. Alchemy, beginnings of, 23. ---- change of, to chemistry, 126. ---- contrasted with chemistry, 202. ---- general remarks on, 123. ---- lent itself to imposture, 106. ---- object of, 9, 26, 32, 105. ---- probable origin of word, 25. ---- quotations to illustrate aims and methods of, 11-14. Alembic, 92. Apparatus and operations of alchemists, 90. Art, the sacred, 122. Atom, meaning given to word by Dalton, 173. Atomic theory of Greeks, 16. ---- additions made to, by Dalton, 21. ---- as described by Lucretius, 19. Atomic weight, 174. Atoms and electrons, 190, 198. Bacon's remarks on alchemy, 95. Balsamo, Joseph, 110. Basil Valentine, his description of the three principles, 51. ---- his description of the four elements, 49. ---- some of his discoveries, 88. Becquerel, his discovery of radiation of uranium, 181. Body, soul, and spirit of things, alchemical doctrine of, 48. Boyle, on calcination, 128.