Martin Levey - Babylonian Chemistry

Martin Levey, Babylonian Chemistry: A Study of Arabic and Second Millenium B.C. Perfumery, in Osiris, Vol. 12 (1956), pp. 376-389.

• Introduction:
  
• Scope of this paper
• Babylonian science
• Babylonian chemistry and sources for its study
• The perfume texts, provenance and date
• Babylonian and Arabic Perfumery:
  
• Apparatus
• Operations and methods of perfume making
• Perfume texts and Arabic chemistry:
• Fire technology
• Repetition of operations
• Objectivity of perfume texts
• Conclusions
  

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