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Page 161
... chemistry will not stand the test of criticism in the light of the more ample in- formation now available . Perhaps the most insidious of the errors into which these and other historians have been led is the whole- sale rejection as ...
... chemistry will not stand the test of criticism in the light of the more ample in- formation now available . Perhaps the most insidious of the errors into which these and other historians have been led is the whole- sale rejection as ...
Page 167
... chemical works . From them it is evident that , while Rhazes believed in the possibility of transmutation , he was far more inter- ested in the application of chemistry to medicine , and his classifi- cation of chemicals and ...
... chemical works . From them it is evident that , while Rhazes believed in the possibility of transmutation , he was far more inter- ested in the application of chemistry to medicine , and his classifi- cation of chemicals and ...
Page 168
... chemistry in Latin Europe . No account of chemistry in Islâm would be even approximately complete which omitted to mention Abu'l - Qâsim al - ' Irâqî and Aidamir al - Jildakî . The first of these men lived in the XIIIth . cen- tury ...
... chemistry in Latin Europe . No account of chemistry in Islâm would be even approximately complete which omitted to mention Abu'l - Qâsim al - ' Irâqî and Aidamir al - Jildakî . The first of these men lived in the XIIIth . cen- tury ...
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