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I took an undergraduate class called "History and Philosophy of Science (Chemistry)", but that involved multiple books.
I'd recommend you start with a popular science novel such as Napoleon's Buttons: How 17 Molecules Changed History.
The Chemical Tree by Bock and The History of Chemistry by John Hudson are more academic history texts of the development of chemistry. To read and understand these books you probably need to be a chemist yourself. They are more targeted towards teaching a class.
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The Chemical Tree: A History of Chemistry is a very good history. Someone with no chemical training will be able to read the first handful of chapters, but most of it is written on a level where it really helps to know something about chemistry. The fact that it dedicates an entire chapter to the nonclassical ion controversy of the mid-to-late 20th century is my warning to the layman. If you're a chemist, however, it's a must-read.
Here is a couple, the first two are Pop-sci and may be more of what you are looking for. The third is probably the most dense.
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https://www.amazon.com/Disappearing-Spoon-Madness-Periodic-Elements/dp/0316051632
http://home.theodoregray.com/bookproducts/the-elements-autographed-copy
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