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Kit Chapman, "The Age of Alchemy: How Early Innovators Shaped Modern Chemistry" (Profile Books, 2026)
The first chemists were Sri Lankan forgers who crafted unimaginably strong steel millennia before it should have been possible. They were alchemists in Roman Egypt, who designed apparatus still in use today. They were St...
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Kit Chapman, "The Age of Alchemy: How Early Innovators Shaped Modern Chemistry" (Profile Books, 2026) is an episode from New Books in Early Modern History by New Books Network. The first chemists were Sri Lankan forgers who crafted unimagin...
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Published Jul 9, 2026, 78:49 long, audio available.
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