Abstract
THE article by Dr. Greenwood1 seems to me to lay too little stress on the point that while Albertus Magnus certainly advanced botanical and zoological science by much valuable original observation, yet in the realm of chemistry he contented himself with repetition and interpretation of earlier writings. The opposite impression given by the article seems to be due to the fact that Dr. Greenwood regards “De Alchimia” as authentic. This book is, of course, included in Jammy's collected edition of Albertus's works (an edition which is unfortunately not critical and often scientifically incomprehensible by reason of numerous textual mistakes), and in the still worse reprint of this edition by Borgnet. However, all Albertus's critics, from his first biographer, Petrus de Prussia, to Quetif, Sighart, and de Loe, down to Pangerl, have all definitely stated that he is not the author of this work; which completely cuts out all that has been repeatedly said about Albertus's personal experimental work.
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