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The Early History of Preparation of Arsenic by Three Europeans (2008)

Zhu, Jing (Author)
Ren, Dingcheng (Author)

Ziran Kexueshi Yanjiu (Studies in the History of Natural Sciences)
Volume: 27
Pages: 151-165

Publication Date: 2008
Edition Details: [Translated title.] In Chinese.
Language: Chinese

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Chemistry Formularies; pharmacopoeias Arsenic Medieval Albertus Magnus Paracelsus, Theophrast von Hohenheim Schröder, Johann

By documentation and experimental reproduction, this paper reviews other authors' description of the early history of preparation of arsenic by three Europeans, Albertus Magnus, Theophrastus Philippus Paracelsus, and Johann Schr?der, corrects their errors, and reconstructs this history. Its main findings are: (1) the source of Albertus' process to prepare arsenic by heating soap and orpiment is seen in his Libellus de Alchemia rather than his Book of Mineral, and the experiment made by the authors of the paper conforms the process; (2) the common parlance according to which Paracelsus' process to prepare arsenic was heating eggshells and arsenic has neither source of documents nor is contrary to modern chemistry, his process to gain arsenic is heating soap and orpiment or realgar; (3) there is no recordation of preparing element arsenic in Schr?der's Pharmacopoeia, and it still remains a problem to be solved if he recorded processes to prepare arsenic in other works.

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