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| Preface | |
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| Suggestions for Further Reading and Touring | |
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| Acknowledgments | |
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| Practical Chemistry: Mining, Metallurgy And War | |
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| The Birth of Metals | |
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| The Essence of Matter: Four Elements (or Five) | |
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| Three Principles (or Two) | |
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| Or Three Subatomic Particles (or More) | |
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| Unifying The Infinite and the Infinitesimal | |
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| Seeding The Earth with Metals | |
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| Chymicall Characters | |
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| Practical Metallick Chemistry | |
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| A Promising President | |
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| These Are A Few of Our Nastiest Things | |
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| "The Sun Rains Gold The Moon Rains Silver." | |
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| Catawba Indian Pottery: Four Colors and the Miracle of Survival | |
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| Spiritual and Allegorical Alchemy and Chemistry | |
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| Eastern and Western Spiritual Alchemy | |
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| The Philosopher's Stone Can No Longer Be Protected by Patent | |
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| Mystical and Majestic Numbers | |
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| Twelve Keys of Basil Valentine: The Impure King | |
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| Ratzo Rizzo and the Poet Virgil as Transmuting Agents? | |
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| Natural Magick: Metamorphoses of Werewolves and Metals | |
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| An Alchemical Bestiary | |
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| Dragons, Serpents, and Order Out of Chaos | |
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| Albert The Great and "Albert The Pretty Good" | |
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| A Canterbury Tale of Alchemy | |
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| The Ship of Fools | |
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| The First Modern Encyclopedia | |
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| Today's Specials: Oil of Scorpion and Lady's Spot Fade-In Cream | |
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| "Vulgar and Common Errors" | |
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| What Is Wrong with this Picture? | |
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| Protecting the Roman Empire's Currency from the Black Art | |
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| Who Is Athanasius Kircher and Why Are They Saying Those Terrible Things About Him? | |
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| Alchemists as Artists' Subjects | |
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| Allegories, Myths, and Metaphors | |
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| The Wordless Book | |
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| Strange Doings in an Alchemist's Flask | |
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| Medicines, Purges, and Ointments | |
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| Geber and Rhazes: Alchemists from the Biblical Lands | |
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| Paracelsus | |
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| The Alchemist in the Pit of My Stomach | |
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| A Salty Conversation | |
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| The Magic of Distillation | |
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| Distillation By Fire, Hot Water, Sand, or Steamed Boar Dung | |
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| The Joy of Sextodecimo | |
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| The Compleat Apothecary | |
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| "Rare Effects of Magical and Celestial Fire" | |
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| Secrets of a Lady Alchemist | |
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| "Pray and Work" | |
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| A Good Old-Fashioned Purge | |
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| "Opening Metals"-The Art of Chymistry | |
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| The Triumphal Chariot of Antimony | |
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| An Emerging Science | |
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| The Ancient War of the Knights | |
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| The First Ten-Pound Chemistry Text | |
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| A Tree Grows in Brussels | |
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| Curing Wounds by Treating the Sword with Powder of Sympathy | |
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| Do Anonymous Passersby Defecate At Your Doorstep? A Solution | |
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| A House Is Not a Home Without a Bath Tub and a Still | |
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| Skeptical about "Vulgar Chymical Opinions" | |
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| The Atmosphere is Massive | |
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| Boyle's Law | |
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| Enhancing Frail Human Senses | |
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| Gun Powder, Lightning, Thunder, and Nitro-Aerial Spirit | |
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| Who Would Want an Anti-Elixir? | |
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| A Harvard-Trained Alchymist | |
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| Lucifer's Element and Kunckel's Pills | |
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| The Emperor's Mercantile Alchemist | |
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| Phlogiston: Chemistry's First Comprehensive Scientific Theory | |
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| The "Modern" Phlogiston Concept | |
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| The Humble Gift of Charcoal | |
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| Beautiful Seventeenth-Century Chemistry Texts | |
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| What Are Effluviums? | |
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| The Surprising Chemical Taxonomies of Minerals and Mollusks | |
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| Chemical Affinity | |
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| Double-Bottom Cupels, Hollow Stirring Rods, and Other Frauds | |
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| There Is Truth in Chalk | |
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| The Chemical Revolution | |
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| Peas Produce Lots of Gas | |
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| Black's Magic | |
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| Cavendish Weighed the Earth but Thought He Had Captured Phlogiston in a Bottle | |
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| In the Early Hours of the Chemical Revolution | |
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| Making Soda Pop | |
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| Fire Air (Oxygen): Who Knew What and When Did They Know It? | |
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| Nice To His Mice | |
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| Laughing Gas or Simply "Semi-phlogisticated Nitrous Air" | |
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| Eulogy for Eudiometry | |
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| Where Is Th | |