Editing Distillation (section)

==== Aristotle ====
[[Aristotle]] knew that water condensing from evaporating seawater is fresh:<ref>{{Cite book |last=Aristotle. |url=https://archive.org/details/aristotle0000hdpl/page/n7/mode/2up |title=Meteorologica |publisher=Harvard University Press |year=1952 |pages=2.3, 358b |language=Ancient Greek, English |translator-last=Lee |translator-first=H. D. P. |orig-date=c. 340 BC}}</ref>
{{Blockquote|text=I have proved by experiment that salt water evaporated forms fresh, and the vapour does not, when it condenses, condense into sea water again.}}
Letting seawater evaporate and condense into freshwater cannot be called "distillation" for distillation involves boiling, but the experiment may have been an important step towards distillation.<ref>{{Cite book |last=Forbes |first=R. J. |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=XeqWOkKYn28C |title=A Short History of the Art of Distillation: From the Beginnings Up to the Death of Cellier Blumenthal |publisher=[[Brill Publishers|BRILL]] |year=1948 |isbn=978-90-04-00617-1 |pages=14 |orig-date=Reprinted 1970}}</ref>