...metals. There was even a chemical society at Fez, thus contemptuously described by Leo Africanus : " There is a most stupid set of men who contaminate themselves with sulphur and other horrible stinks. They are wont to meet in the evening at the principal mosque, and there dispute over their vain imaginations."...

...majority of Bacon's contemporaries would probably have agreed with Leo Africanus ' in regarding them as " a most stupid set of men who contaminate themselves with sulphur and other horrible stinks." Bacon took higher ground : he realised that without real practical acquaintance with laboratory methods,...

...as "stinks." History was repeating itself; for Leo Africanus, writing in the early part of the 16th century, thus described the chemical society of the...themselves with sulphur and other horrible stinks." The attitude of Britain's premier University was in precisely the same spirit as that of the ex-priest...

...of us when the attempt to introduce laboratory teaching into the University of Oxford was met with furious resistance; and when at length studies in...themselves with sulphur and other horrible stinks." The attitude of England's premier university was in precisely the same spirit as that of the ex-priest...

...of us when the attempt to introduce laboratory teaching into the University of Oxford was met with furious resistance ; and when at length studies in...themselves with sulphur and other horrible stinks." The attitude of England's premier university was in precisely the same spirit as that of the ex-priest...