How did modern chemistry begin?

The timeline of chemistry lists important works, discoveries, ideas, inventions, and experiments that significantly changed humanity's understanding of the modern science known as chemistry, defined as the scientific study of the composition of matter and of its interactions. The history of chemistry in its modern form arguably began with the Irish scientist Robert Boyle, though its roots can be traced back to the earliest recorded history. Let's explore "How modern chemistry begin?"! 

Early ideas that later became incorporated into the modern science of chemistry come from two main sources. Natural philosophers (such as Aristotle and Democritus) used deductive reasoning in an attempt to explain the behavior of the world around them. Alchemists (such as Geber and Rhazes) were people who used experimental techniques in an attempt to extend the life or perform material conversions, such as turning base metals into gold.

In the 17th century, a synthesis of the ideas of these two disciplines, that is the deductive and the experimental, leads to the development of a process of thinking known as the scientific method. With the introduction of the scientific method, the modern science of chemistry was born.

Known as "the central science", the study of chemistry is strongly influenced by, and exerts a strong influence on, many other scientific and technological fields. Many events considered central to our modern understanding of chemistry are also considered key discoveries in such fields as physics, biology, astronomy, geology, and materials science to name a few.

Modern chemistry began to emerge when Robert Boyle made a clear distinction between chemistry and alchemy in 1660. German chemists Johann Becher and Georg Ernst Stahl laid the foundation for the modern theory of combustion. The English chemist Joseph Priestley discovered in 1774, that oxygen is essential to the burning process. Henry Cavendish identified hydrogen, and in 1783, Lavoisier developed the theory of conservation of mass.

Chemicals are split up into organic chemicals and inorganic chemicals. It was earlier believed that organic chemicals were found only in living things. In 1828, Friedrich Wohler, a German scientist, accidentally synthesized urea, an organic compound known to occur in living things, from an inorganic substance, ammonium cyanate. This opened a new era of research in chemistry.

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