[Pramāṇa](https://indike.org/pramana/) › [Studies](https://indike.org/pramana/ins) › [Science, technology and education](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.science) › [A History of Hindu Chemistry from the Earliest Times to the Middle of the Sixteenth Century A.D.](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.science.ray-1902) › v2.c32.t1.61 # A History of Hindu Chemistry from the Earliest Times to the Middle of the Sixteenth Century A.D. v2.c32.t1.61 A History of Hindu Chemistry from the Earliest Times to the Middle of the Sixteenth Century A.D. v2.c32.t1.61 - **Language:** English ### [v2.c32.t1.61](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.science.ray-1902.v2.c32.t1.61) Rasasára: It is a comprehensive but purely chemical work dealing with 18 operations on mercury; various chemical processes are incidentally described, a good many of which, however, overlap each other. There does not seem to be any justification for coining a multiplicity of technical jargons to connote each of these. But prolixity was never regarded in the light of a vice by the alchemical writers of the middle ages either in India or in Europe. The contents of Rasasára often remind us of a poem on alchemy by George Ripley, canon of Bridlington in Yorkshire (b. about 1460), of which Rodwell says:— - [Previous: v2.c32.t1.60](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.science.ray-1902.v2.c32.t1.60) - [Next: v2.c32.t1.62](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.science.ray-1902.v2.c32.t1.62) - [Up: v2.c32.t1](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.science.ray-1902.v2.c32.t1) --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/ins.science.ray-1902.v2.c32.t1.61](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.science.ray-1902.v2.c32.t1.61) · Pramāṇa