How Chemistry Started
The Beginning of Chemistry
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In 4000BC, the ancient Egyptians used the first primitive form of chemistry, in 1200BC, the Mesopotamian were making perfume with chemistry, and in 1000BC they used chemistry to extract ore form rock. However, the main seeds for the field of chemistry were planted in 300AD, when the first Alchemists set for the fantasy idea of the philosophers stone. The philosophers stone was mythical rock that could turn any base metal into gold and make an elixir that would grant eternal life.
How modern Chemistry came to be
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Modern Chemistry started to come to be in 770 when Abu Musa Jabir ibn Hayyan (Also called Geber), who is the called the father of chemistry, developed an early experimental method for chemistry, and found out how to isolate many acids, including hydrochloric acid, nitric acid, citric acid, acetic acid, tartaric acid, and aqua regia. Sadly, modern chemistry did not become important until the 17th century. In the early 17th century, many major things occurred like Sir Francis Bacon publishing The Proficience and Advancement of Learning, a book that included the early model of the scientific method, and Jean Begun drawing the first ever chemical equation. Finally, in 1661 Robert Boyle invented the first ideas of atoms, molecules, and chemical reaction, and marked the beginning of the history of modern chemistry.