On the Antiquity of the Chemical Art by James Mactear
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page 51 of 53 (96%)
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_Al-Khams_,
The five-part science? I am inclined, however, to go yet a step further, and remembering that the _fifth_ element or Ether of the most ancient Hindoo philosophy, was in reality an expression for active force, or, that emanating from the central sun caused the natural phenomena of attraction and repulsion, the emission and refraction of light, and other sensible changes of condition, would read the compound word _Al-Khamis_ (The fifth), as the grand and simple title of our ancient science, meaning _The force_-- that which causes the changes in the elementary types and their combinations--than which no more descriptive title could be assigned to it, even in the present enlightened age. * * * * * * * * * * * * * * Errors and Anomalies Apollonius Tyanæus [_text reads âAppoloniusâ_] Hercules and Bacchus (Dionysius) [_text reads âDionsyiusâ_] |
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