(July 17, 2023 at 10:27 pm)The Grand Nudger Wrote: More that they were referring to something we would refer to that way. Like I mentioned before, the literal translation for what we translate as copper sulfate solution is "peacocks neck". The same is true of oxygen and hydrogen. They're all descriptive, not technical or informative. The peacock thing? It's the color of the solution.
The whole text is a pretty typical med alchemists treatise, which is what researchers think it actually is, simply attributed to a character in older myths. 12th century ace. Still cool - but not cool enough, or?
Nothing is as cool as ancient aliens with zero-point energy that can travel intergalactically and were the basis for a shit ton of religious texts
Hence my motivated reasoning and my blindness to it
