| Preface |
| Color Plate Captions |
| Acknowledgments |
| Suggestions for Further Reading |
| Practical Chemistry, Mining, and Metallurgy / Section I.： |
| What Fresh Hell Is This? |
| The Essence of Matter: Four Elements (or Five); Three Principles (or Two); or Three Subatomic Particles (or More) |
| Unifying The Infinite and the Infinitesimal |
| Seeding the Earth with Metals |
| Chymicall Characters |
| Practical Chemistry: Mining, Assaying, and Refining |
| Spiritual and Allegorical Alchemy / Section II.： |
| The Philosopher's Stone Can No Longer Be Protected By Patent |
| The Twelve Keys of Basil Valentine. First Key: The Wolf of Metals and the Impure King |
| Ratso Rizzo and the Poet Virgil as Transmuting Agents? |
| Catawba Indian Pottery: Four Colors and a Miracle of Survival |
| Dragons, Serpents, and Order out of Chaos |
| Today's Specials: Oil of Scorpion and Lady's Spot Fade-In Cream |
| "Vulgar And Common Errors" |
| What Is Wrong with this Picture? |
| Protecting the Roman Empire's Currency from the Black Art |
| Geber and Rhazes: Alchemists from the Biblical Lands |
| Alchemists as Artists' Subjects |
| Allegories, Myths, and Metaphors |
| The Wordless Book |
| Iatrochemistry and Spagyricall Preparations / Section III.： |
| Paracelsus |
| The Dream Team of Alchemy |
| Distillation By Fire, Hot Water, Sand, or Steamed Boar Dung |
| Chemistry Begins to Emerge as a Science / Section IV.： |
| The First Ten-Pound Chemistry Text |
| A Tree Grows in Brussels |
| Curing Wounds by Treating the Sword with Powder of Sympathy |
| Do Anonymous Passersby Defecate At Your Doorstep? A Solution |
| A House Is Not a Home without a Bath Tub and a Still |
| Boyle Versus Aristotle And Paracelsus |
| The Atmosphere Is Massive |
| Boyle's Law |
| Who Would Want an Anti-Elixir? |
| The Triumphal Chariot of Antimony |
| A Salty Conversation |
| The Alchemist in the Pit of My Stomach |
| A Harvard-Trained Alchymist |
| Phlogiston: Chemistry's First Comprehensive Scientific Theory |
| Gun Powder, Lightning and Thunder, and Nitro-Aerial Spirit |
| The "Modern" Phlogiston Concept |
| What Are "Effluviums"? |
| Beautiful Seventeenth-Century Chemistry Texts |
| Chemical Affinity |
| Double-Bottom Cupels, Hollow Stirring Rods, and Other Frauds |
| Peas Produce Lots of Gas |
| Black's Magic |
| Cavendish Weighed the Earth but Thought He Had Captured Phlogiston in a Bottle |
| Making Soda Pop |
| If You Do Find the Philosopher's Stone: "Take Care To Lose It Again"--Benjamin Franklin |
| Saltpetre, Abigail. Pins, John |
| Modern Chemistry is Born / Section V.： |
| Fire Air (Oxygen): Who Knew What and When Did They Know It? |
| Nice to His Mice |
| Where Is the Invective of Yesteryear? |
| La Revolution Chimique Commence |
| Simplifying The Chemical Babel |
| Hydrogen + Oxygen [right arrow] Water. Water [right arrow] Oxygen + Hydrogen |
| The Guinea Pig as Internal Combustion Engine |
| A Single Elective Attraction (Single Displacement) |
| A Double Elective Attraction (Double Displacement) |
| The Phoenix Is a "Her"? |
| Chemistry in the Barrel of a Gun |
| A Boring Experiment |
| Laughing Gas For Everybody! |
| "Lavoisier in Love" |
| Some Last-Minute Glitsches Before the Dawn of the Atomic Theory |
| The Atomic Paradigm |
| "We Are Here! We Are Here! We Are Here!" |
| Was Avogadro's Hypothesis a Premature Discovery? |
| Chemistry Is Not Applied Physics |
| Chemistry Begins to Specialize and Helps Farming and Industry / Section VI.： |
| The Electric Scalpel |
| Chemical Scalpels Through the Ages |
| Davy Rescues The Industrial Revolution |
| The Dualistic Theory of Chemistry |
| Adams Opposes Atoms |
| The Chemical Power of a Current of Electricity |
| A Primeval Forest of the Tropics |
| Taming The Primeval Forest |
| The Atomic Weight of Carbon and Related Confusions |
| Why's the Nitrogen Atom Blue, Mommy? |
| I Cannot Hold My Chemical Water--I Can Make Urea! |
| Two Streams In The Primeval Forest |
| Want a Great Chemical Theory? Just Let Kekule Sleep on It |
| "My Parents Went to Karlsruhe and All I Got Was This Lousy Tee-Shirt!" |
| The Icon On The Wall |
| The People's Chemistry |
| Ink from Peanuts and the Finest Sugar in the South |
| Teaching Chemistry to the Masses / Section VII.： |
| Michael Faraday's First Chemistry Teacher |
| "Chemistry No Mystery" |
| The Chemical History of a Candle |
| Into the Heart of the Flame |
| Poof! Now You Smell It! Now You Don't! |
| Chlorine Fairies? |
| "Rascally" Fluorine: A Fairy With Fangs? |
| A Mid-Semester Night's Dream |
| And Now Turn to Page 3 of Our Chemical Psalm Book |
| Molecular Mechanics In The Year 1866 |
| The Approach to Modern Views of Chemical Bonding / Section VIII.： |
| Riding Pegasus to Visit Chemistry in Space |
| Is the Archeus a Southpaw? |
| John Read: Stereochemist |
| Finding an Invisible Needle in an Invisible Haystack |
| But Argon Is a Monoatomic Gas--And There Are Others! |
| Just How Many Different Substances Are in Atmospheric Air? |
| Atoms Of The Celestial Ether |
| Non-Atomus |
| Crystals Can Diffract X-Rays |
| Two Nobel Prizes? Not Good Enough for the Academie Des Sciences! |
| It's The Atomic Number, Dmitry! |
| X-Rays Measure the Distances Between Atoms or Ions |
| Where Did We Dig Up The Mole? |
| Xenon Is Slightly Ignoble and Krypton Is Not Invincible |
| The Atom as Solar System |
| 'Tis a Gift To Be Simple |
| Transmuting Quantum Mechanics into Chemistry |
| Mercury Can Be Transmuted to Gold |
| Modern Alchemists Reach Atlantis |
| The Chemistry Of Gold Is Noble But Not Simple |
| The "Perfect Biological Principle" |
| Nanoscopic "Heavens" |
| Moving Matter Atom-By-Atom |
| Post-Script / Section IX.： |
| Ending In Imagery |
| Index |
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