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Fire Creations

The Exciting History of Chemistry from Alchemy to the Atomic Age

Authored by:
Katie Cobb
Harold Goldwhite

Translated by: Dr. Fathallah Al-Sheikh
Review: Shawqi Jalal

Introduction:

Content

Chapter One:
From a Prehistoric Chemist to a Chemical Philosopher

Chapter Two:
Alexandria and Semiotics

Chapter Three:
From Rome to Baghdad

Chapter Four:
Semiotics Moves from East to West

Chapter Five:
The Development of European Semiotics

Chapter Six:
The Philosophers of Fire

Chapter Seven:
The Search for Order and Phlogiston

Chapter Eight:
The Revolution

Chapter Nine:
After the Flood

Chapter Ten:
The Professional Chemist

Chapter Eleven:
Thermodynamics Heat of Matter

Chapter Twelve:
Organic Chemistry: Rising from the Mud

Chapter Thirteen:
Inorganic and Ionic Elements

Chapter Fourteen:
Analytical, Industrial and Biochemistry

Chapter Fifteen:
Quantitative Chemistry Animal Body

Chapter Sixteenth:

And the protons are episodes of a series

Chapter Seventeen:

New materials and methods

Chapter Eighteen:
Chemical kinetics, prosperity or decline

Chapter Nineteen:
Radiochemistry Dalton's fission

Chapter Twenty:
And the best is yet to come

Bibliography
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This book

This book deals not only with the history of semiotics and chemistry, but also with the history of the world with its cultures and civilizations from a chemical semiotic perspective. Semiotics is the practice of ancient chemistry before the emergence and stability of the scientific method (after Descartes and Bacon).
Semiotics was an integral part of the ancient sciences, practiced by all philosophers and doctors since the dawn of history. Alchemy focused its long struggle on overcoming nature in two matters: the first was to obtain the philosopher's stone, which transforms base metals into precious metals (it transforms copper and lead into gold), and the second was to prepare the elixir of life, which cures all diseases and grants immortality to man. Alchemists did not achieve either of these matters, but they left us a heritage of techniques, some of which are still applied today. From this perspective, the book presents the emergence, prosperity, and then decline of diverse civilizations and cultures throughout history and geography, from ancient Egypt to Mesopotamia, from India and China to Persia and Rome, and then the towering Arab-Islamic civilization. The book deals with the life history of dozens of men (and women) of science, and ends in the middle of the twentieth century after chemistry and with it and through it human civilization went through turns and paths, and climbed peaks and fell into valleys of ignorance and darkness and overcame many of its enemies, the enemies of enlightenment and science, to reach what we have reached, advanced chemistry that treats the sick, increases agricultural yields, creates synthetic fabrics... and much more.