A history of chemistry from the earliest times till the present day / by the late James Campbell Brown; with a portrait and one hundred and six illustrations.

  • James Campbell Brown
Date:
1913
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Credit: A history of chemistry from the earliest times till the present day / by the late James Campbell Brown; with a portrait and one hundred and six illustrations. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Theosebius, and Justinian, and contains in an obscure form passages that resemble the work of the Byzantine alchemists, Comarius, Stephanus, and others. There are many phrases. Fig. 44.--Alembic .iincl Flask for Distillation ]i(-r Descen- sam. (Sj'riac MS.) Fig. 45.—Ajiparatus for Decuntatioii and Fil- tration and a Spatula. (Syriac MS.) taken from Greek manuscripts and similar to others in the Turba Philosophorum. In the libraries of Paris and Leyden is a treatise entitled Fig. 4B.—Heatino; Apparatus and Furnace for Calcina- tion. (Syriac MS.) Fig. 47.—Sand-bath and Rod for Projection. (Syriac MS.) “ The Book of Twelve Chapters of Ostanesthe Sage on the Science of the Illustrious Stone.” It opens with a solemn invocation
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