Chemistry

  • 460 BCE

    Democritus

    Democritus
    The smallest unit of matter which still retains the identity and properties of that matter.
  • 384 BCE

    Aristotle

    Aristotle
    Aristotle was an ancient Greek philosopher and scientist
  • 300 BCE

    Alchemy Part 1

    Alchemy Part 1
    A medieval chemical science and speculative philosophy aiming to achieve the transmutation of the base metals into gold, the discovery of a universal cure for disease, and the discovery of a means of indefinitely prolonging life.
  • 600

    Alchemy Part 2

    Alchemy Part 2
    Metals are made up of mercury and sulfur in varying proportions.
    Gold is the perfect metal and capable of being transmuted into gold by means of a substance known as the Philosophers Stone.