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The Story of Alchemy and the Beginnings of Chemistry

by M. M. Pattison Muir

A light journey through the history of chemistry, from its start in the obscure mysteries of alchemy to what was, for the author, the cutting edge of the development of modern atomic theory ... and whose developing blind ends we can now see with the advantage of hind sight.

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English

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English

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1902

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M. M. Pattison Muir

United KIngdom

Matthew Moncrieff Pattison Muir, a chemist and author. He taught chemistry at Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge and was head of the Caius Laboratory there. Although he published some research on b...

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