The history of chemistry was quite amazing, it started on alchemy then it turns into chemistry.

Alchemists believes that there are four element which is air, fire, water, and earth. Although it originally
came from the Greeks, with their beliefs that everything was made up from the four elements and these
elements were unchanging in nature. But the four-elements theory, which had persisted through the
ages, were disproved by Robert Boyle's experiment to turn a copper into a gold. His text, The Sceptical
Chymist, was indeed stunning. He listed the substances he used and labeled it as elements, because he
recognized that a certain substances decompose into other substances that cannot be broken down any
further. It was already astonishing but when I learned that Hennig Brand tried to turn his urine into gold,
I was even more surprise. I mean who would even thought of that? Well he just did. While he's doing his
experiment, he discovered the mysterious element which he named phosphorus by boiling his urine,
then mixing the black and red part to burn it, and in the end he distilled it that burst into flames. He
thought that it was the phlogiston, a substance to exist in all combustible bodies.

Robert Boyle was not like any other alchemist, because he always publish the details of his works so that
there would be a person to continue it. In the late 18th century alchemy slowly began to turn into
chemistry, Antoine Lavoisier heard about it and tried to do the same experiment that Boyle endlessly
repeated but with more modern and precise tools and equipments. With this experiment, it made him
the father of modern chemistry. I think he really did a great contribute to the scientific community,
because his methods made everything change. The way he does his experiment are the proofs of it.

Alchemy turned into chemistry with what a Robert Boyle mindset to publish his works that make
everyone did the same, to share the knowledge. Unlike the alchemists who are so selfish.