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Lead dressed like gold:Laser-altered molecules cast alchemy in a different light
Lead dressed like gold Laser-altered molecules cast alchemy different light
2017/3/14
Since the Middle Ages, alchemists have sought to transmute elements, the most famous example being the long quest to turn lead into gold. Transmutation has been realized in modern times, but on a minu...
Primary productivity--"nature's alchemy"--focus of annual NSF Long-Term Ecological Research mini-symposium
nature's alchemy focus of annual NSF Long-Term Ecological Research mini-symposium
2015/3/4
Nature's alchemy, it might be called. At the base of Earth's food webs, organisms convert sunlight, water and carbon dioxide into chemical energy.
Primary productivity, as the process is known, is ev...
Cultural Communication and Origin of Chinese Alchemy
Cultural Communication Origin of Chinese Alchemy
2014/3/12
This paper discusses a new identification of sources and key components of early Chinese alchemy. All the sources recording early Chinese alchemy could be divided into two sorts, the earlier and the ...
The alchemy of probability distributions: beyond Gram-Charlier expansions, and a skew-kurtotic-normal distribution from a rank transmutation map
alchemy probability distributions rank transmutation map
2010/10/29
Motivated by the need for parametric families of rich and yet tractable distributions in financial mathematics, both in pricing and risk management settings, but also considering wider statistical app...
The Role of Gold in Alchemy, Part III
Gold Alchemy
2009/7/29
The Role of Gold in Alchemy, Part III.
The Role of Gold in Alchemy, Part II.
The Role of Gold in Alchemy, Part I.
《Hidden Symbolism of Alchemy and the Occult Arts》（图）
Hidden Symbolism of Alchemy and the Occult Arts Herbert Silberer
2009/5/22
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nd held onto the sticks that were over the sluice planks and so came safely and dry over the water. Then I asked the old miller how many water wheels he had. "Ten," answered he. The adventur...
A historical perspective can throw light on problematic aspects of technology, regarded as part of the scientific approach to Nature. The master reference in this respect is chemistry, a science which...
Alexandra Lembert & Elmar Schenkel (eds.), The Golden Egg: Alchemy in Art and Literature, Berlin & Cambridge, MA, Galda & Wilch Verlag, 2002,231 pp. [ISBN 3-931397-40-8 and 1-931255-10-5]
Alexandra Lembert Elmar Schenkel
2008/4/3
This volume is the fourth in the series ‘Leipzig Explorations in Literature and Culture’. Several of the titles that have appeared under this rubric have been monographic, while one other, the excelle...
William R. Newman & Lawrence M. Principe: Alchemy Tried in the Fire:Starkey, Boyle, and the Fate of Helmontian Chymistry, The University of Chicago Press, Chicago, 2002, xiv + 344 pp. [ISBN: 0-226-57711-2]
William R. Newman Chymistry
2008/4/3
"In this study, we have also tried to provide a view of chymistry in terms of an independent, long-term, and continuous development." This sentence from the final chapter encompasses much of what is a...
William R. Newman: Promethean Ambitions: Alchemy and the Quest to Perfect Nature, Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2004, xv+333 pp.[ISBN 0-226-57712-0]
William R. Newman Promethean Ambitions
2008/4/3
Referring to the Whig Party, the former political opponents of the Tories in Great Britain, British historian Herbert Butterfield once coined the term ‘Whiggish’ historiography for any account that lo...
Bruce T. Moran, Distilling Knowledge. Alchemy, Chemistry, and the Scientific Revolution, Harvard University Press, Cambridge, MA, 2005, 210 pp. [ISBN 0-674-01495-2]
Chemistry Vladimír Karpenko
2008/4/3
The chemist is a horrible, morally corrupt person, and there does not seem to be any single term awful enough to describe him. At least that was Libavius’ opinion of those involved in chemical experim...
Two conferences held in July 2006 dealt with topics of interest to readers of Hyle. The Chemical Heritage Foundation (in the ‘old city’ district of Philadelphia) was the site of the International Conf...
The Society for the History of Alchemy and Chemistry (SHAC) is Founded in 1937, SHAC has consistently maintained the highest standards of scholarship in all aspects of the history of alchemy and chemi...