Editing Distillation (section)

==== Alexandrian chemists ====
{{See also|Desalination#History|Distilled water#History}}
[[File:Zosimos distillation equipment.jpg|thumb|Distillation equipment used by the 3rd century alchemist [[Zosimos of Panopolis]],<ref>{{cite book|page=203|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=earQAAAAMAAJ|title=The Volatile Oils|author1=Gildemeister, E. |author2=Hoffman, Fr. |author3=translated by Edward Kremers |volume=1|location=New York|publisher=Wiley|year=1913}}</ref><ref>{{cite book|page=[https://archive.org/details/isbn_9780618221233/page/88 88]|title=The History of Science and Technology|author1=Bryan H. Bunch|author2=Alexander Hellemans|publisher=Houghton Mifflin Harcourt|year=2004|isbn=978-0-618-22123-3|url-access=registration|url=https://archive.org/details/isbn_9780618221233/page/88}}</ref> from the [[Byzantine Greek]] manuscript ''Parisinus graces.''<ref>[[Marcelin Berthelot|Berthelot, Marcelin]] (1887–1888) [https://archive.org/details/collectiondesanc01bert ''Collection des anciens alchimistes grecs'']. 3 vol., Paris, p. 161</ref>]]Early evidence of distillation has been found related to [[Alchemy|alchemists]] working in [[Alexandria, Egypt|Alexandria]] in [[Roman Egypt]] in the 1st century CE.<ref name="Forbes" />{{rp|pp=57,89}}

Distilled water has been in use since at least {{Circa|200 CE}}, when [[Alexander of Aphrodisias]] described the process.<ref name="Taylor">{{cite journal |last1=Taylor |first1=F. |year=1945 |title=The evolution of the still |journal=Annals of Science |volume=5 |issue=3 |page=185 |doi=10.1080/00033794500201451}}</ref><ref>{{cite journal |last=Berthelot |first=M. P. E. M. |date=1893 |title=The Discovery of Alcohol and Distillation |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=IisDAAAAMBAJ&pg=PA85 |url-status=live |journal=The Popular Science Monthly |volume=XLIII |pages=85–94 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171129151553/https://books.google.com/books?id=IisDAAAAMBAJ&pg=PA85 |archive-date=29 November 2017 |df=dmy-all}}</ref> Work on distilling other liquids continued in early [[Byzantine Egypt]] under [[Zosimus of Panopolis]] in the 3rd century.