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More imagesChemistry in 'Iraq and Persia in the Tenth Century A.D. Memoirs of the Asiatic Society of Bengal. Vol. VIII, No. 6, pp. 317-418.
STAPLETON, Henry Ernest; Rizkallah F. Azo; Muhammad Hidayat Husain.
Published by Calcutta: Printed at the Baptist Mission Press. Published by the Asiatic Society of Bengal, 1927, 1927
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Add to basketFirst edition, offprint issue, in which Stapleton argued that the establishment of a chemical classification system by the ninth-century Persian alchemist Al-Razi marked the birth of scientific chemistry. It also includes Stapleton's hypothesis that the alembic was derived from the mihjamah, a type of cupping glass. Stapleton (1…878-1962) worked in the Indian Education Service and later undertook research into increasing the butter-fat content of milk. His previous collaborations with Azo included a study of 11th-century alchemical equipment and an edition of an alchemical treatise by Al-Khwarizmi al-Khati (fl. 1034). Hidayat Husain was a professor of Arabic at Presidency College, Calcutta, where Stapleton was principal. Large quarto (305 x 247 mm). With 2 plates. Bound with original printed wrappers. Recent orange half skiver, spine lettered in gilt, red cloth sides, cream endpapers, brown silk bookmarker. Bumps to binding, front wrapper sometime repaired, contents browned, a little loss to upper outer corners: in very good condition.
