How did Chemistry begin?

Question

And describe yourself as a scientist?

Answer 1

I'm no scientists, but I believe Chemistry began with Alchemy. This is a link to Wikipedia, explaining how it began with Robert Boyle's distinctions between the two.

http://en.wikiversity.org/wiki/Precursor...

Alchemy-a form of chemistry and speculative philosophy practiced in the Middle Ages and the Renaissance and concerned principally with discovering methods for transmuting baser metals into gold and with finding a universal solvent and an elixir of life.

Chemistry-the science that deals with the composition and properties of substances and various elementary forms of matter.