 | Edward Gibbon - 1805 - 488 páginas
...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...substances of the three kingdoms of nature, tried the distinction and affinities of alcalis and acids, and converted the poisonous minerals into soft and... | |
 | David Ramsay - 1819 - 386 páginas
...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 and acids; and converted... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - 1820 - 404 páginas
...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...distillation, analysed the substances of the three kingdoms 1 Sec a good view of the progress of anatomy in Wotton (Reflections on ancient and modern Learning,... | |
 | Charles Forster - 1829 - 484 páginas
...chemistry," observes Mr. Gibbon, " owes its origin and improvement to the industry of the Saracens. They first invented and named the alembic for the...distinctions and affinities of alkalis and acids, and which can be affirmed of no third religious polity. In whatever light it be viewed, the fact certainly... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - 1830 - 442 páginas
...distillation, analyzed the substances of the three kingdoms of nature; tried the distinction and affinites of alkalis and acids, and converted the poisonous minerals into soft and salutary medicines. But the most eager search of Arabian chemistry was the transmutation of metals, and the elixir of immortal... | |
 | William Whewell - 1837 - 1048 páginas
...science oFchemistry ow^s its origin and improvement to the~ hidustlyof the Saracens. They," he adds, " first invented and named the alembic for the purposes...substances of the three kingdoms of nature, tried the distinction and affinities of alcalis and acids, and converted the poisonous minerals into soft and... | |
 | William Whewell - 1837 - 516 páginas
...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...substances of the three kingdoms of nature, tried the distinction and affinities of alcalis and acids, and converted the poisonous minerals into soft and... | |
 | Michael Russell - 1837 - 358 páginas
...that the Saracens made the greatest advances, and contributed most to the progress of modern science. They first invented and named the alembic for the purposes of distillation ; analyzed the substances of the three kingdoms of nature ; proved the distinction and the affinities... | |
 | Samuel Morewood - 1838 - 768 páginas
...writer says, that " they first invented and named the alembic for the purpose of distillation ; analized the substances of the three kingdoms of nature; tried...minerals into soft and salutary medicines."* Their speculative and visionary hope of finding an elixir of immortal health, is said to have led them to... | |
 | Samuel Morewood - 1838 - 778 páginas
...writer says, that " they first invented and named the alembic for the purpose of distillation ; analized the substances of the three kingdoms of nature; tried...converted the poisonous minerals into soft and salutary 98 medicines."* Their speculative and visionary hope of finding an elixir of immortal health, is said... | |
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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... 
