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  The Last Sorcerers: The Path from Alchemy to the Periodic Table
  The Last Sorcerers: The Path from Alchemy to the Periodic Table

 
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By Richard Morris
Year: 2003
Pages: 224
Binding Hardcover
ISBN 0-309-08905-0

Product Code: 0309089050

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They started with four: earth, air, fire, and water. From these basics, they sought to understand the essential ingredients of the world. Those who could see further, those who understood that the four were just the beginning, were the last sorcerers and the world's first chemists. What we now call chemistry began in the fiery cauldrons of mystics and sorcerers seeking not to make a better world through science, but rather to make themselves richer through magic formulas and con games. But among these early magicians, frauds, and con artists were a few far-seeking alchemists who, through rigorous experimentation, transformed mysticism into science. Morris brews up a potent combination of the alluringly obscure and the historically momentous, spiked with just the right dose of quirky and ribald detail to deliver a magic brew of history, science, and personalities.
 

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