also to our knowledge of human superstition) since the days of Kopp". In a review of the 1931 volume, Sarton warned that the portion dealing with Arabic materials was of lesser quality than the rest, particularly with respect to spelling of Arabic names. Yet more recent reevaluations point to some deficiencies in citation style that make the text difficult to follow back to primary sources. More compact accounts have been written since. Publications Die Zuckerarten und ihre Derivate (1878) Die Chemie der Zuckerarten (1885, 1904) Geschichte des Zuckers (1890, 1929) Abhandlungen und Vorträge zur Geschichte der Naturwissenschaft (1906–1913) Entstehung und Ausbreitung der Alchemie, (1919, 1931, 1954) Digital edition of Vol. 1&2 by the University and State Library Düsseldorf Zeittafeln zur Geschichte der organischen Chemie (1921) Beiträge zur Geschichte der Naturwissenschaft und der Technik (1923) Geschichte der Rübe als Kulturpflanze (1925) Guntwin Bruhns (Hrsg.), Aus den Lebenserinnerungen von E. O. von Lippmann. In: Zuckerindustrie 107. bis 119. Jg., 1982–1994. References Further reading J. R. Partington, "Edmund O. von Lippmann", Osiris, Vol. 3, (1937), pp. 4–21, External links 1857 births 1940 deaths 20th-century German chemists 19th-century German Jews Jewish chemists Historians of science 19th-century German chemists Businesspeople in the sugar industry