Excerpt from Elements of Chemical Philosophy: As Regards the Laws of Chemical Changes; Undecompounded Bodies and Their Primary Combinations The only processes which can be called chemical, known to the civilized nations of antiquity, belonged to certain arts, such as metal lurgy, dyeing, and the manufacture of glass or porcelain; but these processes appear to have been independent of each othe1, pursued in the workshop alone, and unconnected with general knowledge. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.