| Edward Gibbon - 1805 - 488 sider
...the Saracens. They first invented and named the alembic for the purposes of distillation, analysed the substances of the three kingdoms of nature, tried...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... | |
| Edward Gibbon - 1806 - 406 sider
...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 alealis and acids, and converted the poisonous minerals VOL. X. E into * See a good view of the progress... | |
| Edward Gibbon - 1820 - 404 sider
...want of hist^'aT freedom. CHAP, of nature, tried the distinction and affinities of lAi _____ ,J ___ alcalis and acids, and converted the poisonous minerals into soft and salutary medicines. — But the most eager search of Arabian chenlistry was the transmutation of metals, and the elixir... | |
| Samuel Morewood - 1824 - 404 sider
...analysed the substances of the three kingdoms of nature; tried the distinctions and affinities of alkalis and acids, and converted the poisonous minerals into soft and salutary medicines.* Their speculation and vi* To the luminous and elegant pen of Mr. Gibbon I am indebted for some of the... | |
| William Whewell - 1837 - 1048 sider
...Saracens. They," he adds, " first invented and named the alembic for the purposes of distillation, analysed the substances of the three kingdoms of nature, tried...into soft and salutary medicines." The formation and realisation of the notions of analysis and of affinity, were important steps in chemical science, which,... | |
| Samuel Morewood - 1838 - 768 sider
...analized the substances of the three kingdoms of nature; tried the distinctions and affinities of alkalis and acids, and converted the poisonous minerals into soft and salutary medicines."* Their speculative and visionary hope of finding an elixir of immortal health, is said to have led them... | |
| Edward Gibbon - 1843 - 550 sider
...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, and converted the poisonous minerals into soft and salutary medicines. But the... | |
| Edward Gibbon - 1850 - 630 sider
...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...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... | |
| Edward Gibbon - 1855 - 496 sider
...the chemists of Europe to make nt a much later period." — M. AD 813. WANT OF ERUDITION', ETC. 403 the distinction and affinities of alcalis and acids,...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 - 1858 - 622 sider
...analyzed the substances of the three kingdoms of nature, tried the distinction and affinities of alkalies and acids, and converted the poisonous minerals into...steps in chemical science, which, as I shall hereafter endeavor to show, it remained for the chemists of Europe to make at a much later period. If the Arabians... | |
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