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| List of Illustrations | |
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| Acknowledgements | |
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| Bibliographical Note | |
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| Introduction | |
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| On the Nature of the Universe and the Hermetic Museum | |
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| Chinese Alchemy | |
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| Greek Alchemy | |
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| Arabic and Medieval Alchemy | |
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| Newton's Alchemy | |
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| The Demise of Alchemy and its Literary Tradition | |
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| The Sceptical Chymist | |
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| Paracelsianism | |
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| Helmontianism | |
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| The Acid-Alkali Theory | |
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| A Sceptical Chemist | |
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| Boyle's Physical Theory of Matter | |
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| The Vacuum Boylianum and its Aftermath | |
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| Newton's Chemistry | |
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| The Phlogistonists | |
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| Elements of Chemistry | |
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| A Scientific Civil Servant | |
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| The Chemistry of Air | |
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| The Chemical Revolution | |
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| The Aftermath | |
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| A New System of Chemical Philosophy | |
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| Dalton's 'New System' | |
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| Dalton's Life | |
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| The Atomic Theory | |
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| The Origins of Dalton's Theory | |
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| Electrifying Dalton's Theory | |
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| Chemical Reactivity | |
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| Prout's Hypothesis | |
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| Volumetric Relations | |
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| Scepticism Towards Atomism | |
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| Instructions for the Analysis of Organic Bodies | |
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| Purity | |
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| The Basis of Chemistry | |
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| The Supply of Apparatus and Chemicals | |
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| Liebig, Organic Analysis and the Research School | |
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| Chemical Method | |
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| Classifying by Radicals | |
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| Classification by Types | |
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| On the Constitution and Metamorphoses of Chemical Compounds | |
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| The Establishment of Quantivalence | |
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| Kekule and the Theory of Chemical Structure | |
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| The Triumph of Structural Theory | |
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| Chemistry Applied to Arts and Manufactures | |
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| The Alkali Industry | |
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| Dyestuffs and Colouring | |
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| Principles of Chemistry | |
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| Sorting the Elements | |
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| The Rare Earths | |
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| The Inert Gases | |
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| Manufacturing Elements | |
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| Mendeleev's Principles | |
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| On the Dissociation of Substances Dissolved in Water | |
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| Proto-Physical Chemistry | |
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| Raoult and van't Hoff | |
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| Electrochemistry from Faraday to Arrhenius | |
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| The Ionic Theory | |
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| The Reception of the Ionic Theory | |
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| How to Teach Chemistry | |
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| Frankland's State-sponsored Chemistry | |
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| Armstrong's Heuristic Method | |
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| Twentieth-century Developments in Teaching | |
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| The Laboratory | |
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| The Chemical News | |
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| Forming Chemical Societies | |
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| The Chemical Periodical | |
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| William Crookes, Chemical Editor | |
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| The Nature of the Chemical Bond | |
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| The Lewis Atom | |
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| Spreading the Electronic Theory | |
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| The Pauling Bond | |
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| Structure and Mechanism in Organic Chemistry | |
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| The Lapworth-Thiele-Robinson Tradition | |
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| The Michael-Flurscheim-Vorlander Tradition | |
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| The Electronic Theory of Organic Reactions | |
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| Organizing the Structure of Organic Chemistry | |
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| The Kinetics of Mechanisms | |
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| The Spread of Physical Organic Chemistry | |
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| Aromaticity | |
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| The Non-classical Ion Debate | |
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| The Renaissance of Inorganic Chemistry | |
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| Werner's New Ideas | |
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| Sidgwick's Electronic Interpretation of Co-ordination Chemistry | |
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| Australian Chemistry | |
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| Australian and Japanese Chemistry | |
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| Co-ordination Chemistry in Australia | |
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| Nyholm's Renaissance | |
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| At the Sign of the Hexagon | |
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| Synthesis | |
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| Industrial Chemistry | |
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| Chemistry and the Environment | |
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| Epilogue | |
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| Appendix: History of Chemistry Museums and Collections | |
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| Notes | |
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| Bibliographical Essay | |
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| Index | |