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Letter from Partington on Alchemical Apparatus - Paul Ferguson - 07-29-2025

"MY colleague Prof. Earp has directed my attention to an article in the Journal of Hellenic Studies (vol. 1, p. 109; 1930) by F. S. Taylor, entitled “A Survey of Greek Alchemy”, in which the suggestion is made that the apparatus called a ‘water bath’ (bain-marie) by Berthelot (“Introduction à I'étude de la chimie des anciens”, Paris, 1889, p. 146) is really a small charcoal brazier"

https://www.nature.com/articles/128118b0


Sherwood Taylor's article here:

https://studylib.net/doc/27362450/a-survey-of-greek-alchemy--f.-sherwood-taylor-the-journal...