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.