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A History of Inventions, Discoveries, and Origins, Volume 1 (of 2)

Note 506 — ALUM.

William Johnston translation

[This cannot be correct; for Geber, who is supposed to have lived in the eighth century, was acquainted with three kinds of it, and describes the method of preparing burnt alum.]

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