A favourite gambit is to quote a not very helpful thirteenth century recipe from the Liber Ignium, attributed to Marcus the Greek and conveniently translated by Berthelot1 and leave it at that. Strange unscientific statements are made about its probable constituents, or more often it is baldly stated that the secret of them is irretrievably lost.
Folklore about Greek Fire is long-lived it even gets into reputable history books. Edward Gibbon: Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, L I I. E L L I S DAVIDSON/CAMBRIDGE The historian who presumes to analyse this extraordinary composition should suspect his own ignorance and that of his Byzantine guides, so prone to the marvellous, so careless, and, in this instance, so jealous of the truth.
THE SECRET WEAPON OF BYZANTIUM THE SECRET WEAPON OF BYZANTIUM
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