Practical Metallick Chemistry

In his 1671 book Metallogmphia, John Webster uses biblical quotation to trace metallurgical chemistry back to Moses who, in turn, references Tubal-Cain (Genesis 4 22), the eighth of Mankinde from Adam, a biblical worker of iron and brass. Here is how Tubal-Cain might have discovered metallurgical chemistry  

While through a Forest Tubal with his yew And ready Quiver did a Bore pursue, 

A burning Mountain from his fiery vain. An Iron River rolls along the Plain. 

The witty Huntsman musing, thither hies. And of the wonder deeply can devise. 

And first perceiving that this scalding mettle Becoming cold, in any shape would settle, 

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