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Step into the workshop where fire, glass, minerals, food, and mystery all submit to experiment. This bookshelf traces chemistry from alchemy’s shadowy beginnings to the precise language of the laboratory, revealing how the science reshaped kitchens, farms, factories, and the hidden makeup of everyday life. Curious, practical, and quietly explosive, these listens turn matter itself into the great adventure.

by Antoine Laurent Lavoisier

by Ernst Larsson

by W. H. (William Herbert) Simmons, H. A. Appleton

by A. W. Duncan

by John Mastin

by Mrs. (Jane Haldimand) Marcet

by Edwin E. (Edwin Emery) Slosson

by Hieronymus David Gaubius

by Watson Smith

by William McPherson, William Edwards Henderson

by Thomas Anderson

by M. M. Pattison (Matthew Moncrieff Pattison) Muir

by C. F. (Charles Frederick) Cross, E. J. (Edward John) Bevan

by Freiherr von Justus Liebig

by Bernard D. (Bernard Dell) Bolas

by H. Stanley (Herbert Stanley) Redgrove

by Richard Threlfall

by Hieronymus David Gaubius

by Michael Faraday

by Rufus P. (Rufus Phillips) Williams

by C. (Cornelius) Beringer, J. J. (John Jacob) Beringer

by Eduard Farber

by James Mactear

by Henry Paul Talbot

by Frederick Hutton Getman