 Egypt ; much useful experience had been acquired in the practice of arts and manufactures but the science of chemistry owes its origin and improvement to the industry of the Saracens. They first invented and named the alembic for the purposes of distillation,...  The Family Library (Harper). - Page 1091842Full view - About this book
 | Edward Gibbon - Byzantine Empire - 1805 - 488 pages
...manufactures; but the science of chemistry owes its origin and improvement to the industry of the Saracens. They first invented and named the alembic for the purposes of distillation, analysed the substances of the three kingdoms of nature, tried the distinction and affinities of alcalis... | |
 | David Ramsay - World history - 1819 - 386 pages
...artists. The science of chemistry owes its origin and improvement to the industry of the Saracens. They first invented and named the alembic for the purposes of distillation; analysed the substances of the ihree kingdoms of nature ; tried the distinction and affinities of alkalies... | |
 | Samuel Morewood - Science - 1824 - 410 pages
...said, the real science of chemistry owes its origin and improvement to the industry of this people. They first invented and named the Alembic, for the purposes of distillation; analysed the substances of the three kingdoms of nature; tried the distinctions and affinities of alkalis... | |
 | Charles Forster - Christianity and other religions - 1829 - 484 pages
...chemistry," observes Mr. Gibbon, " owes its origin and improvement to the industry of the Saracens. They first invented and named the alembic for the purposes of distillation, analysed the substances of the three kingdoms of nature, tried the distinctions and affinities of alkalis... | |
 | Michael Russell - Africa, North - 1835 - 466 pages
...and to determine its entire circumference at twentyfour thousand miles. But it was in chemistry that the Saracens made the greatest advances, and contributed...proved the distinction and the affinities of acids and alkalies ; and converted the poisonous minerals into salutary medicines. It is true, no doubt, that... | |
 | William Charles Linnaeus Martin - Ethnology - 1840 - 438 pages
...astronomy and medicine ; that of chemistry may be said to have been born and nurtured among the Saracens. They first invented and named the alembic, for the purposes of distillation ; tried the distinctions and affinities of alkalis and acids ; and converted minerals into medicines.... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - Byzantine Empire - 1843 - 550 pages
...manufactures ; but the science of chemistry owes its origin and improvement to the industry of the Saracens. They first invented and named the alembic for the purposes of distillation, analyzed the substance* of the three kingdoms of nature, tried the distinction and affinities of alkalies and acids,... | |
 | Theodore Dwight - 1846 - 764 pages
...and to determine its entire circumference at twenty-four thousand miles. But it was in chemistry that the Saracens made the greatest advances, and contributed...salutary medicines. It is true, no doubt, that the objerts of their most eager research were the transmutation of metals, and the elixir of immortal health... | |
 | William Whewell - Physical sciences - 1847 - 522 pages
...science of chemistry owes its origin and improvement to the industry of the Saracens. They," he adds, "first invented and named the alembic for the purposes...analyzed the substances of the three kingdoms of nature, tried the distinction and affinities of alcalis and acids, and converted the poisonous minerals into... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - 1855 - 496 pages
...manufactures ; but the science of chemistry owes its origin and improvement to the industry of the Saracens. They first invented and named the alembic for the purposes of distillation, analysed the substances of the three kingdoms of nature, tried but from Jupiter and the sun (Abulpharag.... | |
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