Cosmos a Sketch of a Physical Description of the Universe volume V2
Cosmos a Sketch of a Physical Description of the Universe volume V2
Humboldt, Alexander Von, 1769-1859
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Ii. , s. 98). Have con- tinued to receive additions until the end of the author's life, Olymp. 114, 3, and therefore three years after the death of Alexander ; but we have no direct evidence on this subject. That which we possess of the correspondence of Aristotle is undoubtedly not genuine (Stahr, th. I. , s. 194-208; th. Ii. , s. 169-234) ; and Schneider says very confidently (Hist, de Animal. , t. I. , p. Xl. ), " hoc enim tanquam certissimum sumere mihi licebit, scriptas comitum Alexandri u...otitias post mortem demum regis fuisse vulgatas. " * I have elsewhere shown that, although the decomposition of sul- phuret of mercury by distillation is described in Dioscorides (Mat. Med. , v. 110, p. 667, Saracen. ), the first description of the distillation of a fluid (the distillation of fresh water from sea water) is, however, to be found in the commentary of Alexander of Aphrodisias to Aristotle's work De Meteorol. See my Examen Critique de VHistoire de la Geogra- phic, t. Ii. , p. 308-316, and Joannis (Philoponi), Grammatici in libra de Gennrat.
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