A History of Chemistry from the Earliest Times Quotes
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“Phlogiston theory”
“History of chemistry”
“Scientific Revolution”
“He charged Paracelsus with bad faith.”
“His "Practical Chemistry" is now in its sixth edition.”
“Oswald Croll (1580—1609)... won distinction as a pharmacist.”
“Historical View of the Progress of Chemistry by Sir Humphry Davy”
“His biography is made up of several more or less improbable legends.”
“The art of alchemy was now to receive an impulse in a new direction.”
“[T]he greatest name of this period is... Van Helmont.”
“His Lectures on the Elements of Chemistry were published in 1803.”
“His last years were devoted to transmutation of metals, and he died at Cologne.”
“At that time the causticity of these substances was held to be dependent on phlogiston.”
“[D]etails of his life will be found in the biography by Dr. John Thomson, published in 1832.”
“His chief work was Epitome Naturalis Scientiae, which was published at Oxford in 1664.”
“As Hermes is alleged to have said. "Nothing in the world dies, but all things pass and change."”
“Paracelsus did little by actual discovery to advance either science or medicine.”
“So keen an anatomist was he that the verb "to Rolfinck" became a popular equivalent for "to dissect"...”
“One of the most original thinkers of his day was Angelo or Angelus Sala (1575—1640).”