Download or read book A Short History of the Art of Distillation from the Beginnings Up to the Death of Cellier Blumenthal written by R J Forbes and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2024-01-22 with total page 415 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Distillation is an art. And even an ancient one. It is strange to find that the history of this oldest and still most important method of producing chemically pure substances has ever been written. The reader looking at the bibliography appended to this book might object that many data existed. This may be true but the proper history of the art from the origin up to the present time was lacking.