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

Note 1203 — SALTPETRE. GUNPOWDER. AQUAFORTIS.

William Johnston translation

De Simplic. Med. Facult. ix. Dioscorides also, v. 131, speaks as if it had been well known that nitrum was commonly burnt.

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