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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tapputi
"Tapputi, also referred to as Tapputi-Belatekallim ("Belatekallim" refers to female overseer of a palace), is considered to be the world’s first recorded chemist, a perfume-maker mentioned in a cuneiform tablet dated around 1200 BC in Babylonian Mesopotamia. She used flowers, oil, and calamus along with cyperus, myrrh, and balsam. She added water or other solvents then distilled and filtered several times. This is also the oldest referenced still.
"She also was an overseer at the Royal Palace, and worked with a researcher named (—)-ninu (the first part of her name has been lost)."
... man, suddenly the fact that I learned more about how organic chemistry actually works and what all the individual components of complex compounds actually do from soap-making than I ever did from my high school AP and college chemistry teachers (no offense, Sister Marybeth who taught the introductory high school chemistry class, you were actually pretty good at it) just seems... kinda historically appropriate.
"Tapputi, also referred to as Tapputi-Belatekallim ("Belatekallim" refers to female overseer of a palace), is considered to be the world’s first recorded chemist, a perfume-maker mentioned in a cuneiform tablet dated around 1200 BC in Babylonian Mesopotamia. She used flowers, oil, and calamus along with cyperus, myrrh, and balsam. She added water or other solvents then distilled and filtered several times. This is also the oldest referenced still.
"She also was an overseer at the Royal Palace, and worked with a researcher named (—)-ninu (the first part of her name has been lost)."
... man, suddenly the fact that I learned more about how organic chemistry actually works and what all the individual components of complex compounds actually do from soap-making than I ever did from my high school AP and college chemistry teachers (no offense, Sister Marybeth who taught the introductory high school chemistry class, you were actually pretty good at it) just seems... kinda historically appropriate.
