This book is written as a result of a personal conviction of the value of incorporating historical material into the teaching of chemistry, both at school and u

Presents chemistry as a science in search of an identity, or rather as a science whose identity has changed in response to its relation to society and other dis

From man's first exploration of natural materials and their transformations to today's materials science, chemistry has always been the central discipline that

Reproduction of the original: The Sceptical Chymist by Robert Boyle

This classic exposition explores the origins of chemistry, alchemy, early medical chemistry, nature of atmosphere, theory of valency, laws and structure of atom