AS AN earnest and respectable science is often said to date from 1661,  o distinguis it en erratic transition. Into teentury scable in botionable  , given t materials, he could make himselfinvisible.

    Perter typifies trange and often accidental nature of cs early days t gold could someilled from y ofcolor seems to or in y buckets of  for monte processes, ed t into a noxious paste and to a translucent ance. None of it yieldedgold, of course, but a strange and interesting ter a time, tancebegan to glo often spontaneously burst into flame.

    tential for tuff—s meaning “lig lost on eager businesspeople, but ties of manufacture made it too costly to exploit. An ounce of pailed forsix guineas—peroday’s money—or more than gold.

    At first, soldiers o provide terial, but suc rial-scale production. In t named Karl(or Carl) Sco manufacture p t ery of p Sches.

    Scraordinary and extraordinarily luckless fellotle in tus,  elements—cungsten, nitrogen, and oxygen—and got credit for none oft into publication aftersomeone else ly. annic acid, and  to see tential of c made otremely hy.

    Scable scoming ence on tasting a little of everytoriously disagreeable substances as mercury, prussic acid(anot150 years later Er (see page 146). Scually caug forty-t oxicced for tunned and terminal look on hisface.

    ere t and Swedish-speaking, Scheele would have enjoyed universal acclaim.

    Instead credit ended to lodge ed cs, mostly from t for various breakinglycompl