Creations of Fire

he history of chemistry is a story of human endeavor-and as er­ T ratic as human nature itself. Progress has been made in fits and starts, and it has come from all parts of the globe. Because the scope of this history is considerable (some 100,000 years), it is necessary to impose some order, and we have organized the text around three dis­ cemible-albeit gross--divisions of time: Part 1 (Chaps. 1...