Matthew Moncrieff Pattison Muir
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The Story of Alchemy and the Beginnings of Chemistry
72 editions
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1902
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Heroes of Science Chemists
20 editions
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2011
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History of Alchemy
7 editions
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2015
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An Account of the Silver Wedding of Mr. and Mrs. F.P. Draper, at Westford, N. Y., Friday Evening, June 16, 1871: Including the Historical Essays On ... Also the Poem, Addresses, and Other Exercises
3 editions
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2015
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Alchemical Essence and the Chemical Element an Episode in the Quest of the Unchanging
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A History of Chemical Theories and Laws
21 editions
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2010
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A Sketch Of Alchemical Theory
4 editions
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2005
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The Chemical Elements
8 editions
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2008
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Heroes of Science
8 editions
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2015
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Watts' Dictionary of Chemistry Volume 4
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“For thousands of years before men had any accurate and exact knowledge of the changes of material things, they had thought about these changes, regarded them as revelations of spiritual truths, built on them theories of things in heaven and earth (and a good many things in neither), and used them in manufactures, arts, and handicrafts, especially in one very curious manufacture wherein not the thousandth fragment of a grain of the finished article was ever produced.”
― The Story of Alchemy and the Beginnings of Chemistry
― The Story of Alchemy and the Beginnings of Chemistry
“The history of science may be described as the history of the attempts, and the failures, of men "to see things as they are." "Nothing is harder," said the Latin poet Lucretius, "than to separate manifest facts from doubtful, what straightway the mind adds on of itself." Observations”
― The Story of Alchemy and the Beginnings of Chemistry
― The Story of Alchemy and the Beginnings of Chemistry
“Time also was said to be an accident: it "exists not by itself; but simply from the things which happen, the sense apprehends what has been done in time past, as well as what is present, and what is to follow after.”
― The Story of Alchemy and the Beginnings of Chemistry
― The Story of Alchemy and the Beginnings of Chemistry
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