About this book
Multi-volume work on science edited by Francis Rolt-Wheeler. The fourth volume is on Chemistry written by William Allan Hamor. It discusses the development of chemical knowledge, from the ancients to modern times. It expanded further on the early works of alchemists and into the phlogistic period. The last chapters cover atomic theories and the development of organic and inorganic chemistry. - Summary by Sienna
Chapters (21)
1Chapter 1 - Development of the Chemical Conception
2Chapter 2 - Chemical Knowledge of the Ancients
3Chapter 3 - The Early Alchemists
4Chapter 4 - The Later Alchemists
5Chapter 5 - The Iatro-Chemical Period, Part 1
6Chapter 5 - The Iatro-Chemical Period, Part 2
7Chapter 6 - The Early Phlogistic Period
8Chapter 7 - The Phlogistic Period Proper, Part 1
9Chapter 7 - The Phlogistic Period Proper, Part 2
10Chapter 8 - Special Branches in Phlogistic Period, Part 1
11Chapter 8 - Special Branches in Phlogistic Period, Part 2
12Chapter 9 - Lavoisier and Anti-Phlogisticism, Part 1
13Chapter 9 - Lavoisier and Anti-Phlogisticism, Part 2
14Chapter 10 - The Atomic Theory and Davy
15Chapter 11 - The Atomic Theory and Berzelius
16Chapter 12 - The Development of Organic Chemistry
17Chapter 13 - Valence and Stereo-Chemistry
18Chapter 14 - Modern Inorganic Chemistry
19Chapter 15 - Atomic Weights and Periodic Law, Part 1
20Chapter 15 - Atomic Weights and Periodic Law, Part 2
21Chapter 16 - The Development of Applied Chemistry
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