 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
 | Henry Cabot Lodge - World history - 1906 - 612 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...analyzed the substances of the three kingdoms of nature, tried the distinction and affinities of alkalies and acids, and converted the poisonous minerals into... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - Church history - 1916 - 1006 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...analyzed the substances of the three kingdoms of nature, tried the distinction and affinities of alkalis and acids, and converted the poisonous minerals into... | |
 | Khalil Totah - Education - 1926 - 120 pages
...due, says: 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 substances of three kingdoms of nature, tried the distinction and affinities of alkalis and acids, and converted... | |
 | West (U.S.) - 1884 - 684 pages
...says : " 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 subjects of the three kingdoms of nature ; tried the distinction and affinities of alkalies and acids,... | |
 | 1862 - 404 pages
...baneful * " 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." — Gibbon's Decline and Fall, chap. lii. art of distillation was not then discovered. It is from that... | |
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