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The first etymology (in the first sentence) dosen't get to the essential point. The basic roots of "chemistry" derives from the 7,000 year study of how to transmute "earthen" metals into "gold". The ancient "Egypt" word kēme , which stands for earth, is the root word of chemistry; this later became "khēmia", or transmutation, by 300 AD, and then “al-khemia” in the Persian area, at 760 AD, and alchemy in the dark ages, and the “chymistry” in 1661 with Boyle’s publication, and now “chemistry”. I will change the intro to the following:

to reflect this. --Sadi Carnot 04:23, 28 September 2006 (UTC)

Sadi, I'm changing it back again to the following:

because that is an uncertain and disputed etymology... We have a dedicated section for all the various theories... ፈቃደ (ውይይት) 11:27, 28 September 2006 (UTC)

Codex, when it comes to "published views", according to William H. Brock, from his 1992 book The Norton History of Chemistry , James R. Partington's three-volume magnum opus History of Chemistry (1969) is the reference to which "all historians of chemistry remain profoundly indebted." Thus, knowing this, according to Partington, from pg.1 of A Short History of Chemistry (1937), "the earliest applications of chemical processes were concerned with the extraction and working of metals and the manufacture of pottery, which were forms of crafts practiced many centuries before the Bronze Age cultures of Egypt and Mesopotamia.” Thus, according Partington, alchemy came from Egypt and Mesopotamia. In addition, according to the Online Etymology Dictionary, the word chemistry, as we know, derives from the word “al-chemy” which has the following etymology:

To solidify this argument, according to the “published views” of Egyptologist Gary Greenberg, a member of the Egypt Exploration Society and the American Research Center in Egypt and the Archaeological Institute of America, from the 2000 book 101 Myths of the Bible – How Ancient Scribes Invented Biblical History , the early Egyptians formulated the first “creation myth”, specifically the Hermopolitian Creation myth, in which the world was originally flooded, then after a period of days the first land arose in the form of a mound (called the "Nun"), and from this land all life emerged. This story was structured over the 120-day annual flood cycle of the Nile River, in which after the water receded, a black fertile life-giving soil would be remain called “keme” in which crops could be grown.

In the Pentateuch, written about 800 BC, Hebrew Scribes, whose ancestors had originally migrated out of Egypt in 1300 BC, incorporated this myth into Biblical narration, in which first the world was covered with water, then Noah, i.e. a synthesis of “Nun” from the Egyptian Ogdoad, searched for land by sending out three birds at 40-day intervals (120-days total), after which Noah's ark became beached on the first land. Noah, from who all life emerged, had three sons: Ham, Shem, and Japheth. In Greenberg’s own words:

I certainly can’t argue and go into a full account of Mesopotamia and Egyptian mythologies and etymologies, e.g. the world’s first chemist was ‘Tapputi’ the perfume-maker, who was mentioned in a cuneiform tablet from the second millennium BC in Mesopotamia, but the point of this lecture is that Egyptian chemistry was practiced long before Greek chemistry; Greek chemistry derived and evolved out of Egyptian chemistry not the other way around as the current intro would have us believe. Moreover, as we all know, according, fossil and genetic evidence, all thoughts, peoples, and ideas, derived from migrations out of Africa’s Rift Valley passing through the Nile River valley, which began about 50,000 years ago.

To summarize, the word chemistry is an Egyptian word based on the study of transmutations of earth . The earth, in total, is made of 92 naturally occurring elements. Chemistry is the study of the transmutation of elements , and it’s word origins reflect this obvious fact. Moreover, according to the Oxford Dictionary of Chemistry , we have the following basic definition.

I hope this clarifies things, such that we can now change the intro sentence, without further issue, to the following:

In this manner we put the core Egyptian etymology definition first and let the reader reference other etymology derivatives second, such as the Greek word χημεία (chemeia) meaning "cast together" or "pour together", in the etymology discussion section. Thanks: --Sadi Carnot 17:33, 1 October 2006 (UTC)

My friend, here I am trying to honestly clean a short (un-sourced) sentence of mis-information, which is clearly the case to anyone who happens to reads books on the history of chemistry as a hobby, e.g. I personally own at least a dozen such chemistry history books (see, for example, the article History of the molecule, which I wrote last week on request), and here you are arguing with me over an un-sourced Etymology of alchemy section to Wikipedia, not yourself adding constructive sources to the argument or article, where instead I am pouring out sources to back up what contributions I make. To continue with this debate, from Britannica 2002 Edition,

Thus, according to Britannica alchemy is an Arabic word, not a Greek word. Arabic chemistry, however, did not come into fruition until the seventh century AD when the Islamic Arabs took over Alexandria. Alexandria, to review, was the capital of Egypt from its founding by Alexander the Great in 322 BC to 642 AD, when it was subdued by the Arabs. Thus, the Arabic terminology, inevitably, has an older etymology based on “Egyptian” thoughts. In this direction, if we look in Julian Franklyn’s 1935 Dictionary of the Occult , we find the following two entries (page 1):

Moreover, according to chemistry historian Matt Tweed, from his recent 2003 book Essential Elements - Atoms, Quarks, and the Periodic Table , we find the following (pg. 2):

I hope I have made my point. The dominant view, as sourced, holds that Egyptian terminology is correct etymology for the word chemistry. The word chemistry, again, derives from the following chronology:

1. Egyptian chemistry , Alexandria has the world’s largest library
2. Greek chemistry , the Greeks take over Alexandria
3. Arabian chemistry , the Arabs take over Alexandria, e.g. Jabir is the main chemist.
4. European chemistry , Gerber builds on Arabic chemistry
5. Chemistry , Boyle writes his classic chemistry text The Sceptical Chymist
6. Chemistry , Lavoisier writes his classic Elements of Chemistry
7. Chemistry , Dalton publishes his Atomic Theory

Now, if as you have mentioned, later the article, you want to add that an English Professor named Ernest Weekley claims that “alchemy” has its root in the Greek word meaning “to pour out” or “mix” than that will certainly be a reasonable contribution.

References

1. ^ Brock, William, .H. (1992). The Chemical Tree - A History of Chemistry . New York: W.W. Norton & Company. ISBN 00393320685.  
2. ^ Partington, James, R. (1937). A Short History of Chemistry . New York: Dover Publications, Inc.,. ISBN 0486659771.  
3. ^ Strathern, Paul (2000). Mendeleyev's Dream - The Quest For the Elements . New York: Berkley Books. ISBN 0425184676.  
4. ^ ^{a b} Daintith, John (2004). Oxford Dictionary of Chemistry . New York: Oxford University Press. ISBN 0198609183.  
5. ^ Levere, Trevor, H. (2001). Transforming Matter - A History of Chemistry from Alchemy to the Buckyball . Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press. ISBN 0801866103.