BOOK XIV.


THE ANALYTICAL SCIENCE.


HISTORY OF CHEMISTRY.

.  .  .  .  .  .  .  Soon had his crew
Opened into the hill a spacious wound,
And digged out ribs of gold  .  .  .  .
Anon out of the earth a fabric huge
Rose like an exhalation, with the sound
Of dulcet symphonies and voices sweet,
Built like a temple.

Milton. Paradise Lost, i.

CHAPTER I.
Improvement of the Notion of Chemical Analysis, and Recognition of it as the Spagiric Art.