THE STORY OF ALCHEMY AND THE BEGINNINGS OF CHEMISTRY

by

M. M. PATTISON MUIR, M.A.

Fellow and Formerly Prælector in Chemistry of Gonville and Caius College,
Cambridge

With Eighteen Illustrations

New and Enlarged Edition

Hodder and Stoughton
London, New York, Toronto







[Illustration: AN ALCHEMICAL LABORATORY]




"It is neither religious nor wise to judge that
of which you know nothing."