Lihat, misalnya, etimologi dari χημεία dalam Liddell, Henry George; Robert Scott (1901). A Greek-English Lexicon (edisi ke-Eighth edition, revised throughout). Oxford: Clarendon Press. ISBN0-19-910205-8.
Malouin, Paul-Jacques (1751), "Alchimie [Alchemy]", Encyclopédie ou Dictionnaire Raisonné des Sciences, des Arts, et des Métiers, Vol. I, Paris: translated by Lauren Yoder in 2003 for Michigan Publishing's The Encyclopedia of Diderot & d'Alembert Collaborative Translation Project.