...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...

...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...

...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...

...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,...

...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...