The History of Chemistry, Volume 1 (of 2)

by Thomas Thomson

[56] Numbers xxxi. 22.

[57] Iliad xi. 25.

[58] Lib. xxxiv. c. 17.

[59] Numbers xxxi. 22.

[60] Dioscorides, lib. v. c. 110.

[61] Lib. v. c. 110.

[62] The ancients were in the habit of extracting mercury from cinnabar, by a kind of imperfect distillation. The native mercury they called argentum vivum, that from cinnabar hydrargyrus. See Plinii Hist. Nat. xxxiii. 8.

[63] Lib. v. c. 99.

[64] Lib. xxxiii. c. 6.

[65] 2 Kings ix. 30.