Creations Of Fire: Chemistry's Lively History From Alchemy To The Atomic Age

I.- 1. ca. 100,000-300 BCE: Prehistoric Chemist to Chemical Philosopher-The Seeds.- 2. ca. 300 BCE-600 CE: Alexandria and Alchemy.- 3. ca. 200 BCE-1000 CE: From Rome to Baghdad.- 4. ca. 1000-1200: Alchemy Translates from East to West.- 5. ca. 1300-1500: The Evolution of European Alchemy.- 6. ca. 1600: Philosophers of Fire.- 7. ca. 1700: The Search for System and Phlogiston.- II.- 8. ca. 1700: Revolution!.- 9. ca. 1800-1848: Apres Le Deluge.- 10. ca. 1800-1848: The Professional Chemist.- 11. ca. 1848-1914: Thermodynamics-The Heat of the Matter.- 12. ca. 1830-1914: Organic Chemistry-Up from the Ooze.- 13. ca. 1848-1914: Inorganic Elements and Ions-New Earths and Airs.- 14. ca. 1848-1914: Analytical, Industrial, and Biochemistry-Creations of Coal.- III.- 15. ca. 1914-1950: Quantum Chemistry-The Belly of the Beast.- 16. ca. 1914-1950: Polymers and Proteins: Links in the Chain.- 17. ca. 1914-1950: New Materials and Methods-Organic and Inorganic Chemistry Grow.- 18. ca. 1914-1950: Chemical Kinetics-Boom or Bust.- 19. ca. 1914-1950: Radiochemistry-Dalton Dissected.- 20. The Best Is Yet To Come.- Endnotes.- Annotated Bibliography.