Corpus role
Eleanor Brine is coauthor, with David Wondrich, of Appendix 2, “A Simple Timeline of Distillation,” in the uploaded T–Z plus appendices extract of The Oxford Companion to Spirits and Cocktails.
Authority and use
The timeline explicitly describes itself as approximate and non-definitive. It is retained as a research map for locating events and technologies that require independent verification, not as final proof of priority or exact dating.
Verification
Identity and appendix coauthorship were verified at LOCAL-077, PDF sheet 209.