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Chemical Heritage, Volume 26 Number 2
- 2008 (Summer)
…apparently only edition (1810) of this de- tailed study of the use of pearl stone from the _ Eugenean Hills i in glass making. PAUL EHRLICH, Das Sauerstoff-Bediirfniss …cruel, to us today. But Robert Boyle, the famous 17th-century natural philosopher, posed these and many other questions in his General Heads for the…
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Chemical Heritage, Volume 26 Number 1
- 2008 (Spring)
… a worthy, enlightened alchemist the secret of how to create the philosophers’ stone, a substance that could turn common metals into gold. The stories woven around recipes for the philosophers’ stone, both in texts and through images, for the most part have …Prelog (1906-1998)— appear in both photographs shown here. A prominent stone-block building serves as the backdrop. With them in the bottom photo…
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Chemical Heritage, Volume 25 Number 4
- 2007 (Winter)
…somewhat theoretical question. In the 17th century the German natural philosopher Johannes Kepler hypothesized that the symmetry of snowflakes must …that would admit them to the all-male Central High School, the crowning stone in the arch of the city’s public education system. CHEMICAL HERITAGE …frescoes, and techniques to remove oil and stains from marble and other stone. has been used continually since the 1300s, the red was not help- ful…
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Chemical Heritage, Volume 25 Number 3
- 2007 (Fall)
… vanced practical knowledge in the fields of pharmacology and metal, stone, and glass working. The first translations of alchemi- cal treatises …alchemy, with its aim of changing the internal nature of metals and stones, could have been considered religiously un- acceptable. In the 12th …Above a door in Free School Lane in Cambridge, England, an im- pressive stone inscription with the university coat of arms still pro- claims “Laboratory…
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Chemical Heritage, Volume 25 Number 2
- 2007 (Summer)
…with crushed char- coal and zinc ore, such as zinc carbonate calamine stone (ZnCO;). Upon reaching temperatures between 900°C and 1000°C, the zinc held by the calamine stone vapor- izes and is absorbed by the surrounding copper to form brass …required immense skill and exceptional ingredients, and English cala- mine stone proved to have a high lead con- tent, resulting in weak brass. This…
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Chemical Heritage, Volume 25 Number 1
- 2007 (Spring)
…this image sees the alchemist portrayed multiple times: as a natural philosopher bent over his tome, as a fool using his bellows, and as an enthusiast …emblem, “Earth,’ Maier encodes the beginning preparations for the philosopher's stone. At Earth's feet are a ram (Aries, representing iron) suckling … mother’s milk—that was thought to be necessary in preparing the philosopher's stone. Roy G. Neville Historical Chemical Library, CHF. CHEMICAL…
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Chemical Heritage, Volume 24 Number 4
- 2006 (Winter)
…was normally found: namely, the metal [chin] radical for metals, the stone [shih] radical for solid nonmetals, or the water [shut] radical for …and the broader public has discovered Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone. Scholars now recognize that some of the most learned people in the … Spliethoff James M. Steel Daniel J. Steffek Lorraine Stetzel Herman Stone Joyce B. Storey Donald M. Stromquist Francis X. Sutman Robert D. Swain…
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Chemical Heritage, Volume 24 Number 3
- 2006 (Fall)
…1/th century, chymists AM TE ate 3 ‘Glohemists and those natural philosophers with an interest in - matter) had waxed enthusiastic about microscopy … systematic methods of the new empiricism to microscopy, natural philosophers hoped that the hidden, invisible (or occult) properties of matter …Administration Laws regulating food and drugs have been found chiseled into stone tablets dating from ancient Sumeria. Yet, as a remarkable set of speakers…
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Chemical Heritage, Volume 24 Number 2
- 2006 (Summer)
… Not sur- prisingly, she was all but ignored by the male natural philosophers with whom she attempted correspondence. In 18th-century France women …Wednesday, 19 July Saturday, 22 July Welcome Reception Concert: “The Philosophers’ Tone,” presented by Arcanum Thursday, 20 July Opening Remarks Session …image is of a lone alchemist tending his furnace in search of the philosopher’s stone that will allow him to make gold from lead. It has been hard…
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Chemical Heritage, Volume 24 Number 1
- 2006 (Spring)
…. Edinburgh’s chemically trained natural- ists were keen to observe stones and rocks in their natural habitat, and their interest took them to …experiments in which he used water, fire, and acids to reduce stones to what he thought to be the most basic “primary” Earths: Vit- rescible … into limewater (a cure for blad- der stones), Black transferred the word gluten into the mineral realm by using…
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Chemical Heritage, Volume 23 Number 4
- 2005 (Winter)
…natural phi- losophers. The quintessential alchemi- cal quest for the philosopher’s stone— thought to transmute base metals into gold and to produce …general audience the complicated combinations required to make the philosopher’s stone. The marriages depicted in alchemy, however, correspond better … combinations included in the process for making the philoso- pher’s stone, which had previously been safely classified under the umbrella of …
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Chemical Heritage, Volume 23 Number 3
- 2005 (Fall)
…debate. The second day saw three panels of papers from historians, philosophers, sociologists, and communications scholars on the histories of various …explained how Genentech got started and discussed some of the mile- stones on the way to it becoming the largest biotechnology company in the … and every new product was enthusiastically embraced as a step- ping stone to a better life. After four years of wartime priva- tions and a somewhat…
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Chemical Heritage, Volume 23 Number 2
- 2005 (Summer)
…Privilege dis Roy. CI Found in the Othmer Library A Possible Link to the Philosopher’s Stone seemingly occult experiences that he became ill. After his …finally learned the nature of the “prime material,” from which the philosopher’s stone— with its ability to transmute base metals into gold and …ransacked by hordes searching for the alleged key to his wealth, the philosopher’s stone. It was In real life, Nicolas Flamel (1330-— 1418), a Paris…
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Chemical Heritage, Volume 23 Number 1
- 2005 (Spring)
…Sessions Future Energy Sources Job Rijssenbeek, GE Global Research Charles Stone, Ballard Power Systems Paul Clark, NOVA Chemicals (moderator) Health …paradigm shift” is supposed to be. Most of these “concepts” and “mile- stones” in fact merely name vast re- search areas and lengthy eras. The editors …. Bensted, John; Nichola J. Coleman. “Cement and Concrete—from Their Stone Age Origins.” Education in Chemistry 41 (2004), 126-129. Chang, Hasok…
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Chemical Heritage, Volume 22 Number 4
- 2004 (Winter)
…Poland. They took me to a spot in nearby Bébrka, commemorated by a small stone monument, where rock oil (ropa naftova) had been seeping from the ground … Steindler Henry C. Stevens John T. Stock Charles A. Stokes* Fred W. Stone M. Robert Stoner R. Philemon Stout Michael E. Strem James S. Strong …Steinberg Vernon A. Stenger James FE. Stiver Walter H. Stockmayer Herman Stone William F. Suhr Frank X. Sutman Richard Pommier Swanson Raymond M. …
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Chemical Heritage, Volume 22 Number 3
- 2004 (Fall)
… a manuscript by Isaac Newton detailing part of a recipe for the philosophers’ stone—a process to turn base metals into gold. The recipe was copied … of concrete, 4,000 tons of steel, and 156,000 cubic feet of crushed stone. In Los Angeles construction began on 1 October 1942, and delivery …in medical courses at Yale. In 1863 he published A Treatise on Gall- stones: Their Chemistry, Pathology, and Treatment, and two years later he …
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Chemical Heritage, Volume 22 Number 2
- 2004 (Summer)
… and Tait WITCH al tele LAL UAT families became educated TEL Te) philosophers in their own right, amassing We ][ Ce Y artistic and LUTE] rarities …explores how alchemy, known for its practitioners’ search for the philosophers’ stone and the elixir of life, became associated with magic, pharmacy … portance in the 14th and 15th centu- ries, when the lure of the philosophers’ stone and its promise of gold attracted even royalty. Alchemists…
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Chemical Heritage, Volume 22 Number 1
- 2004 (Spring)
…Italy and Spain to the rest of Europe. As al- chemists sought the philosopher’s stone and the key to the transmutation of base metals into gold …fellowship at CHF boosted my passion for creating a “space age society with a Stone Age footprint”—a society whose technology far outshines any in use …
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Oral history interview with Charles E. Connor
- 2004-Jul-19 – 2004-Jul-20
…coded in the brain—as Ken has always said, it’s almost like a Rosetta Stone—you’d be able to look at neural activity and understand what was being … the Mitteleuropa Foundation, which is mainly a phenomenological philosophers and phenomenological cognitive science, so there’s this whole tradition…
- Interviewee Connor, Charles Edward, 1955-
- Interviewer Van Benschoten, William
- Sponsor Pew Charitable Trusts
- Subject Connor, Charles Edward, 1955-, Johns Hopkins University, Neurosciences, Artificial vision, Neural transmission, Brain--Data processing, Scientific apparatus and instruments, Neuroscientists, Medical scientists
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Chemical Heritage, Volume 21 Number 4
- 2003 (Winter)
…Rangaswamy Srinivasan James M. Steel Henry C. Stevens John T. Stock Fred W. Stone M. Robert Stoner Top: Guests enjoy a close-up look at a flaming demonstration …Stiver Alan F. Weir Walter H. Stockmayer Patricia H. Weisberg Herman Stone Judith Weiss Joyce B. Storey Percy A. Wells* Donald M. Stromquist Rick …Jr. Dean Ray Stafford Basil G. Staples Heinz W. Sternberg Stanley S. Stone Michael T. Tanouye Luh C. Tao Arthur L. Thomas Charles A. Thomas, Jr…
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Chemical Heritage, Volume 21 Number 3
- 2003 (Fall)
…series about Harry Potter. Rowling’s first book, Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone, follows Harry and his classmates at Hogwarts as they search for the philosopher’s stone prepared by Nicolas Flamel. Principe recounted what is known …science, including Robert Boyle and Isaac Newton, also pursued the philosopher’s stone. The knowledge and techniques available in the 16th and 17th…
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Chemical Heritage, Volume 21 Number 2
- 2003 (Summer)
…prosperity of the early and mid-20th century. Documents of an important mile- stone in ACS history, the stamps and envelope complement the many col- lections …” he begins by explaining the claim of the French En- lightenment philosopher Montesquieu that only the labor of human beings creates lasting …
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Chemical Heritage, Volume 21 Number 1
- 2003 (Spring)
…Ernest Rutherford, J. J. Thom- son, John Tyndall, and Charles Wheat- stone. One book, Rudolf Clausius’s copy of Sadi Carnot’s Réflexions sur la …using natural materials. Animal skins formed cloth- ing and housing, stones served as tools and weapons, and wood fueled fires for cooking meat …advising on min- ing projects, and selling recipes for the precious philosophers’ stone. These workaday alchemists’ wide-ranging skills found a ready…
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Chemical Heritage, Volume 20 Number 4
- 2002 (Winter)
…age 15 until his death at 71. (The brewery of John Joule and Sons at Stone in Staffordshire was producing Joule’s Stone Ale at least into the …Stanitski Richard O. Steele Charlene J. Steinberg John T. Stock Fred W. Stone M. Robert Stoner R. Philemon Stout Michael E. Strem James S. Strong …G. Stearns Vernon A. Stenger Henry C. Stevens Jack H. Stocker Herman Stone Stanley S. Stone Andrew Streitwieser Donald M. Stromquist Lee A. Subluskey…
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Chemical Heritage, Volume 20 Number 3
- 2002 (Fall)
… one-hour pre- sentation: “Harry Potter, Nicolas Flamel, and the Philosophers’ Stone.” Over 100 people attended, filling all the chairs and packing …was increas- ing, leading scientists carried on the search for the philosophers’ stone. Robert Boyle—often credited with making the break between …1664) painted a lone alchemist who appears to have discovered the philosophers’ stone. C EN TER BECKMAN THE N EW S FROM ~_ @…