Excerpt from The Assayer's Guide: Or, Practical Directions to Assayers, Miners and Smelters, for the Tests and Assays, by Heat and by Wet Processes, of the Ores of All the Principal Metals, of Gold and Silver Coins and Alloys, and of Coal, &C
Assaying was the earliest known branch of chemistry, and in fact that one which afterward, through the medium of the various investigations of alchemy, drew attention to theoretical chemistry, and thus founded that science.
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