IMPLICIT CHEMISTRY. In the middle ages, chemistry as such did not exist, but it was ingeniously practiced empirically by craftsmen. It is rather easy, today, to read his recipes and deduce the chemical reactions that were being undertaken. Like the ingenuity of cooking methods worldwide, artisanal workers came upon extraordinary solutions to their undertakings. I call it the distributed genius spread over generations of trial and error.
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Nigel Fleming
September 21, 2022