[W. Ullman, A Short History of the Papacy in the Middle Ages (London: Methuen, 1974), 6.] But it seems that the canon had only Eastern bishoprics in mind, since it spells out the five major regions of the Eastern Empire and does not even mention Rome or any Western diocese. If ...
He stumbled upon discoveries which he did not seek, and science is indebted to him for the first mention of corrosive sublimate, the red oxide of mercury, nitric acid, and the nitrate of silver. [Article, Geber, "Biographie Universelle."] For more than two hundred years after the death ...