The Age of Alchemy

How Early Innovators Shaped Modern Chemistry

Dr Kit Chapman (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

320 Seiten

2026 | Main
Profile Books Ltd (Verlag)
978-1-80522-115-9 (ISBN)

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The first chemists were Sri Lankan steel forgers in the first century BCE, alchemists who emerged in Roman Egypt; herbalists in Tang Dynasty China and engineers in eighth-century South America.

The Enlightenment is usually credited with the origins of chemistry. But in truth, the science blossomed gradually as early innovators distilled, smelted, forged and fermented their way through the millennia, blurring science and mysticism in search of answers to life's greatest mysteries.

Join Kit Chapman on a global quest to achieve immortality, cure all disease and transmute lead into gold as he reveals the illuminating stories of how the alchemists first broke new ground and shaped the scientific method.

Kit Chapman is an award-winning science communicator and adventurer. He has a masters degree in pharmacy, a PhD in the history of science, and is now a lecturer at Falmouth University. He has written for publications including Nature, New Scientist, Chemistry World and the Telegraph. His work has taken him to more than 100 countries to seek out amazing tales from the cutting edge of science.

Erscheint lt. Verlag	30.4.2026
Verlagsort	London
Sprache	englisch
Maße	153 x 234 mm
Themenwelt	Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Natur / Technik
Themenwelt	Naturwissenschaften ► Chemie
ISBN-10	1-80522-115-9 / 1805221159
ISBN-13	978-1-80522-115-9 / 9781805221159
Zustand	Neuware