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On the Antiquity of the Chemical Art by James Mactear
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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.

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Errors and Anomalies

Apollonius Tyanæus [_text reads “Appolonius”_]

Hercules and Bacchus (Dionysius) [_text reads “Dionsyius”_]
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