"The only processes which can be called chemical, known to the civilized nations of antiquity, belonged to certain art…"

"The inhabitants of Lower Egypt, where the overflowing of the Nile covered a sandy desert with vegetation and life, mi…"

"In the beginning of the Macedonian dynasty, the school of Aristotle gave a transient attention to the objects of natu…"

"Theophrastus, the successor of Aristotle, ...says, in the beginning of his book on fossils, 'stones are produced from…"

"[T]he Greeks... possessed, as if instinctively, the perception of everything beautiful, grand, and decorous. As philo…"

"Democritus is quoted by Laertius as having employed himself in processes for imitating gems, and for softening and wo…"

"[N]ot even distillation is noticed in the works of Hippocrates or Galen; and... Dioscorides... who probably possessed…"

"The origin of chemistry, as a science of experiment, cannot be dated farther back than the seventh or eighth century …"

"The early nomenclature of chemistry demonstrates how much it owes to the Arabians.—The words alcohol, , , , , require…"

"A transient view of the progress of chemical philosophy will prove that the most brilliant discoveries, and the happi…"