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100	1		_aGreenberg, Arthur. _92259
245	1	0	_aFrom alchemy to chemistry in picture and story / _cArthur Greenberg.
260			_aHoboken, N.J. : _bWiley-Interscience, _cc2007.
300			_axxiii, 637 pages [24] pages _billustrations (some colors) ; _c29 cm.
504			_aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
505	2		_aPractical Chemistry: Mining, Metallurgy and War -- Spiritual and Allegorical Alchemy and Chemistry -- Medicines, Purges, and Ointments -- An Emerging Science -- The Chemical Revolution -- A Young Democracy and a New Chemistry -- Chemistry Begins to Specialize, Systemize, and Help the Farm and the Factory -- Teaching Chemistry to the Masses -- Chemistry Enters the Modern Age -- Some Brief Chemical Amusements.
520	3		_aChemistry has perhaps the most intricate, most fascinating, and certainly most romantic history of all the sciences. Arthur Greenberg's essays-delightful, learned, quirky, highly personal, and richly illustrated with contemporary drawings (many of great rarity and beauty)-provide a kaleidoscope of intellectual landscapes, bringing the experiments, the ideas, and the human figures of chemistry's past intensely alive
650		0	_aChemistry _xHistory. _92176
650		0	_aQuímica _xHistoria _938
650		0	_aChemistry _vPictorial works.
650		0	_aQuímica _vObras pictóricas _938
856	4	1	_3Table of contents only _uhttp://www.loc.gov/catdir/toc/ecip072/2006033564.html
856	4	2	_3Publisher description _uhttp://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0653/2006033564-d.html
856	4	2	_3Contributor biographical information _uhttp://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0739/2006033564-b.html
942			_2ddc _cLIBRO
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