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Chemists are a strange class of mortals,
impelled by an almost maniacal impulse to seek their pleasures amongst
smoke and vapour, soot and flames, poisons and poverty, yet amongst all
these evils I seem to live so sweetly that I would rather die than
change places with the King of Persia." Johann Joachim Becher, Physica subterranea (1667) |