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The first volume of Ray`s celebrated work, The History of Hindu Chemistry, was published in 1902. The second volume was published in 1908. It was Marcellin Pierre Eugene Berthelot (1827-1907), who inspired Rray to undertake this monumental work. In the preface to the first edition Ray Wrote: ...I was brought into communication with M.Berthelot- a circumstance which has proved to be a turning point in my career as a student of the history of chemistry. The illustrators French savant, the Doyen of the chemical world, who has done more than any other persons to clear up the sources and trace the progress of chemical science in the West, expressed a strong desire to know all about the contribution of the Hindus. In response to his sacred call I submitted to him, in 1898, a short monograph on Indian alchemy. On perusing the contents of these works I was filled with the ambition of supplementing them with one on Hindu Chemistry.ISBN- 9788130712116
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