Note: Intro -- FROM ALCHEMY TO CHEMISTRY IN PICTURE AND STORY -- CONTENTS -- Preface -- Suggestions for Further Reading and Touring -- Acknowledgments -- SECTION I. PRACTICAL CHEMISTRY: MINING, METALLURGY AND WAR -- The Birth of Metals -- The Essence of Matter: Four Elements (or Five) -- Three Principles (or Two) -- or Three Subatomic Particles (or More) -- Unifying The Infinite and the Infinitesimal -- Seeding The Earth with Metals -- Chymicall Characters -- Practical Metallick Chemistry -- A Promising President -- These Are A Few of Our Nastiest Things -- "The Sun Rains Gold -- The Moon Rains Silver" -- Catawba Indian Pottery: Four Colors and the Miracle of Survival -- SECTION II. SPIRITUAL AND ALLEGORICAL ALCHEMY AND CHEMISTRY -- Eastern and Western Spiritual Alchemy -- The Philosopher's Stone Can No Longer Be Protected by Patent -- Mystical and Majestic Numbers -- Twelve Keys of Basil Valentine: The Impure King -- Ratzo Rizzo and the Poet Virgil as Transmuting Agents? -- Natural Magick: Metamorphoses of Werewolves and Metals -- An Alchemical Bestiary -- Dragons, Serpents, and Order Out of Chaos -- Albert The Great and "Albert The Pretty Good" -- A Canterbury Tale of Alchemy -- The Ship of Fools -- The First Modern Encyclopedia -- Today's Specials: Oil of Scorpion and Lady's Spot Fade-In Cream -- "Vulgar and Common Errors" -- What Is Wrong with this Picture? -- Protecting the Roman Empire's Currency from the Black Art -- Who Is Athanasius Kircher and Why Are They Saying Those Terrible Things About Him? -- Alchemists as Artists' Subjects -- Allegories, Myths, and Metaphors -- The Wordless Book -- Strange Doings in an Alchemist's Flask -- SECTION III. MEDICINES, PURGES, AND OINTMENTS -- Geber and Rhazes: Alchemists from the Biblical Lands -- Paracelsus -- The Alchemist in the Pit of My Stomach -- A Salty Conversation -- The Magic of Distillation. , Distillation By Fire, Hot Water, Sand, or Steamed Boar Dung -- The Joy of Sextodecimo -- The Compleat Apothecary -- "Rare Effects of Magical and Celestial Fire" -- Secrets of a Lady Alchemist -- "Pray and Work" -- A Good Old-Fashioned Purge -- "Opening Metals"-The Art of Chymistry -- The Triumphal Chariot of Antimony -- SECTION IV. AN EMERGING SCIENCE -- The Ancient War of the Knights -- The First Ten-Pound Chemistry Text -- A Tree Grows in Brussels -- Curing Wounds by Treating the Sword with Powder of Sympathy -- Do Anonymous Passersby Defecate At Your Doorstep? A Solution -- A House Is Not a Home Without a Bath Tub and a Still -- Skeptical about "Vulgar Chymical Opinions" -- The Atmosphere is Massive -- Boyle's Law -- Enhancing Frail Human Senses -- Gun Powder, Lightning, Thunder, and Nitro-Aerial Spirit -- Who Would Want an Anti-Elixir? -- A Harvard-Trained Alchymist -- Lucifer's Element and Kunckel's Pills -- The Emperor's Mercantile Alchemist -- Phlogiston: Chemistry's First Comprehensive Scientific Theory -- The "Modern" Phlogiston Concept -- The Humble Gift of Charcoal -- Beautiful Seventeenth-Century Chemistry Texts -- What Are Effluviums? -- The Surprising Chemical Taxonomies of Minerals and Mollusks -- Chemical Affinity -- Double-Bottom Cupels, Hollow Stirring Rods, and Other Frauds -- There Is Truth in Chalk -- SECTION V. THE CHEMICAL REVOLUTION -- Peas Produce Lots of Gas -- Black's Magic -- Cavendish Weighed the Earth but Thought He Had Captured Phlogiston in a Bottle -- In the Early Hours of the Chemical Revolution -- Making Soda Pop -- Fire Air (Oxygen): Who Knew What and When Did They Know It? -- Nice To His Mice -- Laughing Gas or Simply "Semi-phlogisticated Nitrous Air" -- Eulogy for Eudiometry -- Where Is The Invective of Yesteryear? -- La Revolution Chimique Commence -- Simplifying The Chemical Babel. , Water Will Not "Float" Phlogiston -- Ben Franklin-Diplomate Extraordinaire -- Mon Cher Phlogiston, "You're Speaking Like An Ass!" -- Lavoisier In Love -- Requiem for a Lightweight -- Okay, I Now Know What "Oxidation" Means, But What Is "Reduction"? -- The Guinea Pig as Internal Combustion Engine -- The Man in the Rubber Suit -- "Poor Old Marat"? I Think Not -- Poor Old Lamarck -- Elective Attractions -- The Phoenix Is a "Her"? -- Chemistry in the Barrel of a Gun -- A Boring Experiment -- Laughing Gas for Everybody! -- Some Last-Minute Glitsches Before the Dawn of the Atomic Theory -- Atmospheric Water Molecules and the Morning Dew -- Exclusive! First Printed Pictures of Dalton's Molecules -- The Atomic Paradigm -- "We Are Here! We Are Here! We Are Here!" -- Was Avogadro's Hypothesis A Premature Discovery? -- Chemistry Is Not Physics -- SECTION VI. A YOUNG DEMOCRACY AND A NEW CHEMISTRY -- If You Do Find The Philosopher's Stone, "Take Care To Lose It Again"- Benjamin Franklin -- Saltpetre, Abigail. Pins, John -- "It Is a Pity So Few Chemists Are Dyers, and So Few Dyers Chemists" -- Two Early Visions: Oxidation Without Oxygen and Women as Strong Scientists -- 'Tis A Bonnie Chymistrie We Brrring Ye -- "For It's Hot as Hell . . . In Phila-del'-phi-a" -- Adams Opposes Atoms -- Twelve Cents for A Chemistry Lecture -- SECTION VII. CHEMISTRY BEGINS TO SPECIALIZE, SYSTEMIZE, AND HELP THE FARM AND THE FACTORY -- The Electric Scalpel -- Chemical Scalpels Through The Ages -- Davy Rescues The Industrial Revolution -- The Dualistic Theory of Chemistry -- The Chemical Power of a Current of Electricity -- Colorful "Notions of Chemistry" -- A Primeval Forest of the Tropics -- Taming The Primeval Forest -- The Atomic Weight of Carbon and Related Confusions -- Why's The Nitrogen Atom Blue, Mommy? -- I Cannot Hold My Chemical Water-I Can Make Urea!. , Two Streams in the Primeval Forest -- Never Smile at a Cacodyl -- Want a Great Chemical Theory? Just Let Kekulé Sleep on It -- "My Parents Went to Karlsruhe and All I Got Was This Lousy Tee-Shirt!" -- What Are Organic Chemists Good For? -- Mendeleev's Early Thoughts About Relationships Between Elements -- The Icon on The Wall -- The Electric Oxygen -- The People's Chemistry -- Ink from Peanuts and the Finest Sugar in the South -- SECTION VIII. TEACHING CHEMISTRY TO THE MASSES -- Geodes -- Michael Faraday's First Chemistry Teacher -- "Chemistry No Mystery" -- The Chemical History of a Candle -- Into the Heart of the Flame -- Poof! Now You Smell It. Now You Don't -- My Chem Professor Took The First Photograph of the Moon! -- Chlorine Fairies? -- "Rascally" Fluorine: A Fairy With Fangs? -- A Mid-Semester Night's Dream -- And Now Turn to Page 3 of Our Chemical Psalm Book -- What Else Could a Woman Write About? -- SECTION IX. CHEMISTRY ENTERS THE MODERN AGE -- Riding Pegasus to Visit Chemistry in Space -- Lævo-Man Would Enjoy the "Buzz" But Not the Taste of His Beer -- Is The Archeus a Southpaw? -- John Read: Stereochemist -- Finding an Invisible Needle in an Invisible Haystack -- But Argon is a Monoatomic Gas-And There are Others -- Searching for Signs of Neon -- Just How Many Different Substances Are in Atmospheric Air? -- Atoms of the Celestial Ether -- Non-Atomus -- A "Grouch" or a "Crank"? -- Why Is Prout's Hypothesis Still in Modern Textbooks? -- Crystals Can Diffract X-Rays -- Two Nobel Prizes? Not Good Enough for the Academie Des Sciences! -- It's The Atomic Number, Dmitri! -- The Periodic Helix of the Elements -- X-Rays Measure The Distances Between Atoms or Ions -- Where Did We Dig Up the Mole? -- Xenon Is Slightly Ignoble and Krypton Is Not Invincible -- The Atom As a Solar System -- 'Tis A Gift To Be Simple. , Transmuting Quantum Mechanics Into Chemistry -- Pauling's Cartoon Carnival -- Here's To Long Life (L'Chaim)! -- Mercury Can Be Transmuted to Gold -- Modern Alchemists Approach Atlantis -- The Chemistry of Gold Is Noble But Not Simple -- The "Perfect Biological Principle" -- So You Weren't Joking, Mr. Feynman -- Nanoscopic "Heavens" -- Moving Matter Atom-By-Atom -- A Nanocar Rolling on a Gold-Paved Road -- Femtochemistry: The Briefest Fleeting Moments in Chemistry -- SECTION X. SOME BRIEF CHEMICAL AMUSEMENTS -- Clairvoyant Pictures of Atoms-A Strange Chymical Narrative -- White Lightning in an Atom, a Kiss, or a Star -- The Secret Life of Wanda Witty -- "Trade Ya Babe Ruth for Antoine Lavoisier!" -- Jive Molecules Doin' The Jitterbug -- Epilogue -- A Natural Scientist -- Descended From Fallopian Test Tubes? -- Index.

Note: Front Cover -- Strained Organic Molecules -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- Preface -- CHAPTER 1. Energy and Entropy -- 1.A Reference States and Reference Books -- 1.B Origin of Molecular Strain -- 1.C Thermodynamics and Symmetry -- 1.D Potential Energy Curves and Zero-Point Energy -- CHAPTER 2. Cyclopropane and Cyclobutane -- 2.A Conceptual Models for the Bonding in Cyclopropane -- 2.B Selected Reactions of Cyclopropanes -- 2.C Cyclobutane -- CHAPTER 3. Unique Strained Groupings or Building Blocks -- 3.A Cycloalkanes -- 3.B Bicyclic, Spirocyclic, and Bridged Hydrocarbons -- 3.C Tetrahedrane -- 3.D Strained Alkenes: Molecules Lacking Torsional Strain -- 3.E Torsionally Distorted π Bonds -- 3.F "Bredt Compounds9' and Cyclic Allenes -- 3.G Cycloalkynes, Benzyne, and Cyclocumulenes -- 3.H Distorted Aromatic Rings -- CHAPTER 4. Polycycles: Aesthetics, Rearrangements, and Topology -- 4.A Adamantanes and Higher Homologues -- 4.B Iceane -- 4.C Miscellaneous Acid-Catalyzed Rearrangements -- 4.D Strained Molecules of Formula (CH)n -- 4.E Additional Polycyclic Molecules -- 4.F Molecular Topology -- CHAPTER 5. Kinetic and Thermodynamic Stability -- 5.A Introduction -- 5.B Orbital Symmetry and Stabilities of Benzene Valence Isomers -- 5.C Transition Metals and Strained Carbocyclic Molecules -- 5.D Strained Heterocyclic Molecules -- 5.E Substituted Derivatives of Strained Molecules -- CHAPTER 6. A Potpourri of Pathologies -- 6.A When is Tetracoordinate Carbon Tetrahedral? -- 6.B Inverted Tetrahedra, Propellanes, Buttaflanes, and Paddlanes -- 6.C Planar Methane and Its Derivatives -- 6.D Five- and Six-Coordinate Carbon -- Addendum -- Index -- ORGANIC CHEMISTRY.

Note: Intro -- Capítulo 1 - Química prática, mineração e metalurgia -- Capítulo 2 - Alquimia espiritual e alegórica -- Capítulo 3 - A iatroquímica e as preparações espagíricas -- Capítulo 4 - A química começa a emergir como uma ciência -- Capítulo 5 - Nasce a quimica moderna -- Capítulo 6 - A química começa a se especializar e auxilia a agricultura e a indústria -- Capítulo 7 - Ensinando química para as massas -- Capítulo 8 - Tratamentos modernos da ligação química -- Capítulo 9 - Pós-escrito.