Out of Alchemy: part 2

The seventeenth century alchemy was not "hocus-pocus" like people would think it is. Alchemy was mostly experimental testing and the fathers of alchemy were Starkey and Robert Boyle. The metallurgical tradition was the opposite of alchemy. This tradition was based on the practice of miners and refiners and was based strictly on results. Lavoisier and his colleagues came up with the Table of Chemical Nomenclature. This table is the periodic table of the 17th century. The Chinese system included the five basic elements. The elements are metal, wood, fire, water, and earth. This was the basis for the Chinese alchemy and led into the interest of immortality.

Out of Alchemy

Lavoisier first started working with chemistry at the College Mazarin. There, he would work with Lacaille, an astronomer and mathematician. After his studies at the College Mazarin, he went to take courses at Jardin du Roi from another famous chemist. Lavoisier did not like studying under the supervision of his professor because it was a science that was, at the time, founded on only a few facts. Lavoisier knew that because of this reason he sold have to start the study of chemistry from ground zero again. At the time, alchemists devoted most if their time to decoding and encoding information. This would be a big discovery if anyone knew how to explain it clearly.