In search of the first. Tomilin A.

In the book of a wonderful writer and popularizer of science Anatoly Nikolaevich Tomilin, the reader will get acquainted with the development of scientific ideas about the history of matter. We learn about how chemistry was born - the science of the transformation of bodies, and how, finally, the dream of ancient alchemists who longed to turn lead into gold came true, and how then physicists took the atom from chemists and what came of it.