NEW WOKK, BY THE EDITOR OF "THE YEAR-BOOK OF FACTS. 1 

 With Frontispiece and Vignette, 3s. 6d. 



CURIOSITIES OF SCIENCE; 



Sstanfj Serbs. 



A BOOK FOE OLD AND YOUNG. 

 BY JOHN TIMBS, F.S.A. 



Alchemy and Chemistry. 

 Modern Chemistry. 

 Chemistry op Mktals. 

 Poisons. 



What Hii>i>ocbates kni.w of Me- 

 dicine. 



Physiological Chemistry. 

 Chemistry op Food. 

 The Laboratory. 

 Ciikmh'al Manufactures. 

 A Chapter on Chlorofobm. 

 General Science. 



*** The following are a few of the more characteristic Articles in this Work. 



What the Chemists owe to the Alche- 

 mists. 



Egyptian Alchemy. 



Metals known to the Ancients. 



The Arab"— Geber. 



The Philosopher's Stone. 



Eoger Bacon's Discoveries. 

 -us, Dee, and Kelly. 



The two Napiers , Alchemists. 



Newton's Belief in Alchemy. 



Boyle's Process for multiplying Gold. 



Belief of Great Men in Alchemy. 



The Last of the Alchemists. 



Dialect of the Alchemists. 



The Golden Chain of Homer. 



Alchemical Experiments ; Transmuta- 

 tion of Metals. 



Transition from Alchemy to Che- 

 mistry. 



Alchemy and Allotropism. 



Connexionof Alchemy and Chemistry. 



The great Discoveries in Chemistry. 



"The One Element." 



Materials of the Globe. 



Davy's Early Dream. 



The Colouring of Flowers. 



Plants in sleeping-rooms. 



Story of the Fate of Lavoisier. 



Aldini's Kin- proof Dresses. 



Asbestos. 



Animal Heat anil Chemical Processes. 



All the Oxygen in the World. 



\\ ha is i isone P 



The < lomporit ion of Water. 



Nitre fen and Gun-ootton. 



Nitrous I Ivicle, or " Laughing (Jas." 



Oaoc shone in otne. 



Formation of Diamonds. 



What PreoloTU Btonea an made of, 



History of Phosphorus. 

 I ' I > i < j 1 1 i t % of [odine. 

 ating. 

 \\ ii it ia done a i 1 1 1 the tiases. 

 Transparency of Metals, 

 Brief Bistorietof the Metals, 

 British Manufacture oi [ron 



Discovery of Scarlet Dye. 



The New Metal Aluminium. 



Alum in Bread. 



Poisons of the Ancients. 



Death of Cleopatra. 



Poison Kings and Poison Bowls. 



Poisoning by Arsenic. 



How the Nettle stings. 



Btryehnine and Strychnos. 



Poisonous Fungi. 



What Hippocrates knew of Medicine. 



The Ih-st Apothecaries' Hall. 



Medical Kings. 



Materials of a Man. 



The Digestive Process. 



The Animal ami Vegetable compared. 



Sketches of Laboratories. 



Bit Walter Raleigh a Chemist. 



Davy, Wollaston, and Jameson, in 



the Laboratory. 

 The two Howarcfs, Chemists. 

 Story of the Blowpipe. 

 Properties of Gunpowder. 

 Ancient Sugar. 

 Bell-i tftal. — Glass-making. 

 Painted and Stained Glass. 

 Wet and Dry Rot. 



Chemistry of \\ ine. 



Seienee of Lord Bacon. 



Quadrature of the Circle. 

 Paradoxes of Rotatory Motion, 



Perkma'a Steam (inns. 



Working Force of ■ Clock. 



■ Roads and British Railways. 



< tarigin of \\ i»ihi nil \ i senal, 

 Failure of Long Ranges. 

 Palace w atei • 



Cipher Writing. 



\\ oitworth'a Dividing Machine 

 ii w biripool. 



Hlaze-pi oof ( 



Domi ; 1 1 ■ romel or. 

 A Chapter on Chloroform, 

 [uick lilver. 

 ■ Ihaoef 

 i he Lri of Noah. 



1 the Patriarchs. 





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