Arnold de Villanova

Arnold de Villanova. A Chymicall treatise of the Ancient and highly illuminated Philosopher, Devine and Physitian, Amoldus de Nova Villa who lived 400 years agoe, never seene in print before, but now by a Lover of the Spagyrick art made publick for the use of Learners, printed in the year 1611. rhttp //www.levitv.com/alchemv/arnaldus treatise.htmll. 

Arnold de Villanova. "Extracts made by Lacinius from the works of... in which the composition of our Stone is practically and lucidly set forth." In New pearl of great price, ed. Bonus of Ferrara, 305-349., 1894. 

Arnold de Villanova. Summary of the Rosary of Arnold de Villa Nova. Ihttp //www.levitv.com/alchemv/ amoldus.htmll. 

The date and birthplace of Arnold de Villanova, or Villeneuve, are both uncertain. He studied medicine at Paris, and in the latter part of the thirteenth century practised professionally in Barcelona. To avoid persecution at the hands of the Inquisition, he was... 

Carbon monoxide is a colorless, odorless, tasteless, flammable, toxic gas. It was first identified by the Spanish alchemist Arnold of Villanova (1235-1313), who noted the production of a poisonous gas when wood was burned. The formal discovery of carbon monoxide is credited to the French chemist Joseph Marie Francois de Lassone (1717-1788) and the British chemist Joseph Priestley (1733-1804). The former prepared carbon monoxide by heating carbon in the presence of zinc, and for a time the compound was incorrectly identified as hydrogen. William Cumberland Cruikshank (1745—1800) correctly determined that carbon monoxide was an oxide of carbon in 1800. 

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