This book tells the story of two of the most important figures in the history of chemistry. Carl Wilhelm Scheele (1742-1786) was the first to prepare oxygen and realise that air is a mixture of nitrogen and oxygen; he also discovered many important organic and inorganic substances. His fellow chemist and good friend, Torbern Bergman (1735-1784), was one of the pioneers in analytical and physical chemistry. In this carefully researched biography, the author, Anders Lennartson, explains the chemistry of Scheele and Bergman while putting their discoveries in the context of other 18^th-century chemistry. Much of the information contained in this work is available in English for the first time.

Chapter 1 - Introduction

Chapter 2 - Bergman and Scheele: Childhoods
Chapter 3 - The two men
Chapter 4 - Bergman's and Scheele's Education
Chapter 5 - Bergman's early scientific career
Chapter 6 - Bergman, Scheele and the Royal Academy of Sciences
Chapter 7 - Bergman's geological work
Chapter 8 - Scheele in Malmö
Chapter 9 - Bergman becomes a chemist
Chapter 10 - Scheele moves to Stockholm
Chapter 11 - Bergman as a teacher
Chapter 12 - Bergman's life as Professor
Chapter 13 - Scheele in Uppsala
Chapter 14 - New Mineral Acids
Chapter 15 - New Metals
Chapter 16 - The invitation to Berlin
Chapter 17 - Bergman and the chemistry of mineral waters
Chapter 18 - Research on carbon dioxide
Chapter 19 -  Scheele in Köping
Chapter 20 - Bergman's work on elective attractions
Chapter 21 - The discovery of oxygen
Chapter 22 - Bergman's and Scheele's theories of elements and atoms
Chapter 23 - Bergman as an analytical chemist
Chapter 24 - Scheele's contribution to organic chemistry
Chapter 25 - Bergman's contributions to minerology
Chapter 26 - Bergman's contribution to chemical numenclature
Chapter 27 - Scheele's and Bergman's contributions to pharmaceutical chemistry
Chapter 28 - The end of the story.