STAPLETON, Henry Ernest; Rizkallah F. Azo; Muhammad Hidayat Husain.

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Chemistry in 'Iraq and Persia in the Tenth Century A.D. First 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 (1878-1962) 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.

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