09-05-2023, 09:49 PM
Gail Taylor.
"Today, when alchemy evokes wizards and crystal balls, it may seem odd to refer to a book of procedures on the transmutation of ordinary metals into
gold as a practical laboratory manual free of mysticism. Yet it was alchemy, the most ancient form of chemistry, which first brought the book and the laboratory
together. Over a thousand years ago, the Persian physician and alchemist Abū Bakr Muhammad ibn Zakarīyā al-Rāzī (c. 865 - 923) wrote the earliest laboratory
manual to reach us in its entirety."
http://labos.ulg.ac.be/cipa/wp-content/u...taylor.pdf
"Today, when alchemy evokes wizards and crystal balls, it may seem odd to refer to a book of procedures on the transmutation of ordinary metals into
gold as a practical laboratory manual free of mysticism. Yet it was alchemy, the most ancient form of chemistry, which first brought the book and the laboratory
together. Over a thousand years ago, the Persian physician and alchemist Abū Bakr Muhammad ibn Zakarīyā al-Rāzī (c. 865 - 923) wrote the earliest laboratory
manual to reach us in its entirety."
http://labos.ulg.ac.be/cipa/wp-content/u...taylor.pdf