If By Emergence, You Mean the Greek Word “Chemeia,” Okay. But Don’t Go Calling It a Science.

New York Times: “Even though they were secretive and self-deluded and their practices closer to magic than modern scientific methods, historians say, alchemists contributed to the emergence of modern chemistry as a science and an agent of commerce.”

© 2006, Edward Champion. All rights reserved.

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