The Age of Alchemy

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The Age of Alchemy is written by DR KIT. CHAPMAN and published by . It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 1805221159 (ISBN 10) and 9781805221159 (ISBN 13).

Conventional wisdom tells us that chemistry was 'invented' in the eighteenth century. In truth, it emerged gradually over the course of thousands of years, as scientific knowledge was discovered, collected, lost, rediscovered and refined. The first chemists were Sri Lankan steel forgers in the first century BCE; alchemists in third-century Egypt; herbalists in seventh-century China. Whether attempting to transform base metals into gold, cure disease or achieve immortality, these earliest figures blurred science and mysticism in search of answers. Science writer Kit Chapman criss-crosses the globe to uncover chemistry's debts to these earliest innovators, revealing the illuminating story of how they broke new ground and shaped the scientific method.