Martin Levy, “Chemistry and Chemical Technology in Ancient Mesopotamia’, PART TWO (2) was the topic of an earlier blog post.
Nagarjuna नागार्जुन (150 – 250 AD), Mūlamadhyamakakāri मूलमध्यमककारिका (“The Middle Way”) was the topic of an earlier blog post.
Here I present: Nagarjuna नागार्जुन (150 – 250 AD), Mūlamadhyamakakāri मूलमध्यमककारिका (“The Middle Way”), PART TWO (2).
“Molecular Elements”and “Electronic Elements” plus “Cellular Molecule” and “Metabolic Cell” are not ideas of “ancients” (Mesopotamia’) or “medieval” (Bharat-India).
These levels of the “chemical” that the ancient and medieval alchemist had no words for.
0. Electronic Photon.
1. Elemental Electron.
2. Electronic Element.
3. Isotopic Element.
4. Elemental Molecule.
5. Cellular Molecule.
6. Molecular Metabolism.
This is what “modern” chemist discuss; but, the history of this language of science occurred from the middle 4th Millennium BC to 1661 AD when Robert Boyle (1627-1691), “The Sceptical Chymist”, 1661 refuted “Aristotlean Alchemy”.
Here I presented: Nagarjuna नागार्जुन (150 – 250 AD), Mūlamadhyamakakāri मूलमध्यमककारिका (“The Middle Way”), PART TWO (2).
SUMMARY.
Nagarjuna (नागार्जुन) 150-250 AD, was an Indian metallurgist and alchemist.
There are archaeological evidences of his experimental laboratory Nagalwadi village, Maharashtra state of INDIA.
Nagarjuna’s book “Rasa -Ratnakara (रसरत्नाकर)”is one of the earliest documented texts on Alchemy in Sanskrit.
COMMENTS.
Modern students of Chemistry are unable to read the History of Chemistry over the entire Five Millenniums since writing began in Sumerian Mesopotamia’ using cuneiform script. Alchemy did not end until 1661 AD when Robert Boyle, published “The Sceptical Chymist”.
