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The Age of Alchemy: How Early Innovators Shaped Modern Chemistry
Kit Chapman traces chemistry through the experiments and practical skills that developed long before the modern laboratory. Travelling across cultures and centuries, he explores how metalworkers, healers, artisans, and alchemists learned to transform matter while pursuing wealth, health, and understanding. Their mixtures of observation, inherited knowledge, speculation, and error produced techniques that later scientists would refine. The book restores overlooked contributors to the history of science and shows how everyday craft, ambitious dreams, and persistent experimentation gradually shaped the methods and materials of modern chemistry.
- Publisher
- Profile Books
- Publication date
- 2026-04-30
- Format
- Hardback
- Pages
- 320
- ISBN
- 9781805221159
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