"The most powerful influence exercised by the Arabs on general natural physics was that directed to the advances of chemistry; a science for which this race created a new era.(...) Besides making laudatory mention of that which we owe to the natural science of the Arabs in both the terrestrial and celestial spheres, we must likewise allude to their contributions in separate paths of intellectual development to the general mass of mathematical science."
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Cosmos, H.G. Bohn, 1860, v2, p.589,595.
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Alexander von Humboldt
1769 – 1859
deutscher Naturwissenschaftler, Ethnologe und Geograph, Bruder von [[Wilhelm von Humboldt]]
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