Philosophy and Chemistry

Modern Philosophy seems to accept the popular genealogy of Chemistry as a refinement of Alchemy.  Even after its stoichiometric systematization by Lavoisier, Kant's characterization of Chemistry as a haphazard "art"  remains seemingly unchallenged, e. g. Whitehead's studies of 'Science' barely acknowledge it.  Perhaps the philosophical status of Chemistry is epitomized by how its most significant contribution to Modern Philosophy--Locke's Boyle-inspired Primary Qualities--becomes a mere footnote to the rising dominance of Secondary Qualities, i. e. of Phenomenalism.  Nevertheless, Philosophy is born as Chemistry, i. e. in the notion that perceivable reality is constituted by permutations of often hidden substrata, e. g. of Water, Fire, Air, Atoms, etc., an ancestry that becomes obscured by the non-'materialist' doctrines of, notably, Pythagoras and Parmenides.  Even the neo-pre-Socratisms of Nietzsche and Heidegger fail to appreciate that lineage.