From caveman to chemist : circumstances and achievements / by Hugh W. Salzberg.

Ancient technology : the roots of chemistry
Hellenic chemical science
The Hellenistic and Roman eras : the rise of alchemy
Islamic alchemy
Medieval and Renaissance European artisans
Medieval and Renaissance alchemists and natural philosophers
Medieval and Renaissance medicine and medical alchemy
The information explosion
Changing the frame of reference : the undermining of the scientific establishment
The first chemists : Sala, Van Helmont, Boyle
Phlogiston : the last of the old theories
Lavoisier and the chemical revolution
Atomic weights and molecular formulas
Atomic arrangements : organic chemistry
The divisible atom.