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The Age of Alchemy: How Early Innovators Shaped Modern Chemistry by Dr Kit Chapman Groundswell Speaker 2024 Didion's early experiences and educationConventional wisdom tells us that chemistry was 'invented' in the eighteenth century. In truth, it emerged gradually over the course of thousands of years, as scientific knowledge was discovered, collected, lost, rediscovered and refined. The first chemists were Sri Lankan steel forgers in the first century BCE; alchemists in third century Egypt; herbalists in seventh century China. Whether attempting to transform base metals into gold, cure disease