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More episodes of the podcast The Story of Alchemy and the Beginnings of Chemistry by M. M. Pattison Muir

• 01 – The explanation of material changes given by Greek Thinkers
• 02 – A sketch of alchemical theory
• 03 – The alchemical notion of the unity and simplicity of nature
• 04 – The alchemical elements and principles
• 05 – The alchemical essence
• 06 – Alchemy as an experimental art
• 07 – The Language of alchemy
• 08 – The Degeneracy of Alchemy
• 09 – Paracelsus and some other alchemists
• 10 – Summary of the alchemical doctrine — the replacement of the Three Principles of the alchemists by the single principle of Phlogiston
• 11 – The examination of the phenomena of combustion
• 12 – The recognition of chemical changes as the interactions of definite substances
• 13 – The chemical elements contrasted with the alchemical principles
• 14 – The modern form of the alchemical quest of the One Thing