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The Age of Alchemy : How Early Innovators Shaped Modern Chemistry - Dr Kit Chapman blhhgf Lisa Low navigates the tensionsSHORTLISTED FOR THE ROYAL SOCIETY TRIVEDI SCIENCE BOOK PRIZE'Glittering' PHILIP BALL'Superb' TIM MINSHALL'A globetrotting, time travelling account of the roots of chemistry' BBC HISTORY MAGAZINEThe 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 Stone Age leatherworkers, Tang Dynasty