Arabian Nights

Chinese minds invented Arabian Nights wonders. Sci News Letter 32 (30 Oct 1937) 284. 

Hitchcock, Ethan Allen. The red book of Appin a story of the middle ages. With other Hermetic stories and allegorical tales. A new edition, enlarged by a chapter of the Palmerin of England. With interpretations, and remarks upon the Arabian nights entertainments. New York James Miller, 1866. 301p. 

Horch, Daniel. The angel with one hundred wings a tale from the Arabian Nights. New York Thomas Dunne Books/St Martin s P, 2002. 260p. ISBN 0-312-28418-7... 

York (Sept. 13, 1944). Kettering B4/184. Source for out of work Kettering s door Arabian nights throughout eternity and Freon discovery. 

The march of organic chemistry still went on after Woehler was dead. He lived long enough to see some of the miracles that succeeded the synthetic production of urea. But mightier developments followed The story of this advance is like a tale from the Arabian Nights. Emil Fischer, refusing to enter the... 

The best of Arabic alchemy came at the start of the period of their domination. Thus, the most capable and renowned of the Moslem alchemists was Jabir ibn-Ha5ryan (c. 760-c. 815), who was known to Europeans, centuries later, as Geber. He lived at the time when the Arabic empire (under Haroun-al-Raschid of Arabian Nights fame) was at the height of its glory. 

Some had already found it In Arabian Nights a tale is told about a Persian fire worshipper, who directs his blast towards copper in a crucible until it melts. From his turban he took out a folded paper and sprinkled a powder, colored as saffron, into the warm crucible. The blasting continues until the substance in the crucible had been changed to gold. It is believed that the mysterious powder could have been the bright red mineral kermesite, antimony oxysulfide. 

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