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Chemical Heritage, Volume 28 Number 1
- 2010 (Spring)
…Before that time those studying the natural world were called natural philosophers. With the rise of science as a career along with increasing specialization …Barbara Traister Alchemy for Everyman: Practical Advice on Finding the Philosopher's Stone 13 April Chin Jou How the Calorie Leapt from Chemistry Lab …manual from their childhood more highly than one of the foun- dation stones of chemistry—Robert Boyle’s 17th-century Sceptical Chymist. How did…
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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 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 31 Number 3
- 2013 (Fall)
…centuries. And it all began with a peculiar kind of rock. Alongside the philosophers’ stone, which was reputed to transmute base metals into gold, early natural philosophers were acquainted with another seemingly miraculous “Philosophicall Stone,” that is, the lodestone, or magnet. It had the unaccount- able ability…
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Chemical Heritage, Volume 17 Number 2
- 1999 (Summer)
…skilled administrator, an adept organizer, a world-class sportsman, a philosopher, and a humanitarian.” Price, who is CHF’s founding chairman of the … claims of traditional al- chemy, including the existence of the philosophers’ stone and its uses to make gold from baser metals and to make elixirs … The Substance of Civilization: Materials and Human History from the Stone Age to the Age of Silicon. New York: Arcade Publishing, 1998. Jacqueline…
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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 14 Number 1
- 1996 (Winter)
…fire to forge iron tools to the medieval alchemists’ search for the philosopher's stone, the secrets of the elements have been pursued by human civilization …aspects of the career of the Renaissance mathematician, magus, natural philosopher, imperial propagandist, and alchemist John Dee—was a signal success …whole, and outlined the continued interest in Dee and other occult philosophers among anti-Calvinist clergymen of the sev- enteenth century. The…
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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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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 ~_ @…
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Distillations, Volume 2 Number 2
- 2016 (Summer)
…one of those sufficiently learned in alchemy to have created the philosophers’ stone. But almost as unusual as his transmutational skills were …constituents from which new substances could be formed—and of course, the philosophers’ stone, which could transmute base metal into gold. The concept … and using philosophic mercury (a component needed to create the philosophers’ stone) as well as some of Newton’s own notes. Newton, of course…
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Distillations, Volume 1 Number 3
- 2015 (Fall)
…succumbing to philosophical flights of fancy, such as the pursuit of the philosophers’ stone. But it was the grand narrative of material transformation embodied in the search for the philosophers’ stone that provided inspiration to 17th- and 18th-century artists …universities, these men fol- lowed the teachings of ancient Greek philosophers, including Aristotle and Galen of Pergamon, who lived in the 2nd…
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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 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 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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The playbook of metals : including personal narratives of visits to coal, lead, copper, and tin mines; with a large number of interesting experiments relating to alchemy and the chemistry of fifty metallic elements
- 1862
…makes him say, with a vast deal of other trash, referring to the Philosopher’s Stone, “‘ Hence we define Our Stone to be a generalizing or Fruitful …with his pupil Thomas Aquinas, made great exertions to obtain the philosopher’s stone and elixir vite. It was this clever man who constructed the …alchemical experiment, which is thus rendered in the books on “The Philosopher’s Stone.” “Hide and couple in a transparent denne the eagle and the…
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Chemical Heritage, Volume 18 Number 2
- 2000 (Summer)
…nothing has hap- pened.’—Vanessa Silberman Catalysis: The Modern Philosophers’ Stone Why did the lead chamber process of sulfuric acid manufacture … York: Oxford Univer- sity Press, 1998. Lyman R. Caswell; Rebecca W. Stone Daley. “The d’Elhuyar Brothers, Tungsten, and Spanish Silver.” Bulletin …many made from trial and error to megascience, leaving us with a mile- stone of chemical discovery and chemi- cal technology. Also attending were…
- Publisher Chemical Heritage Foundation
- Subject Alchemy in art, Semiconductors, Fiberglass boats, Chemical Heritage Foundation
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Chemical Heritage, Volume 20 Number 1
- 2002 (Spring)
…experts on trial in Germany ¢ Harry Potter, Nicholas Flamel, and the philosophers’ stone e Charles A. Browne, sugar chemist WSR: oh E e Friedrich …, this book is titled The Fontana History of Chemistry.) Christopher Stone Hamlin. A Science of Impurity: Water Analysis in Nineteenth Century…
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A Short History of Natural Science and of the Progress of Discovery from the Time of the Greeks to the Present Day
- For the Use of Schools and Young Persons
- 1894
… whole of one side of the stone reflecting the sun’s light—this is a full moon. Pass it on slowly round …eaves do not move. He believed that all the heavenly bodies were fiery stones; the sun he thought was a huge fiery stone as big as the Peloponnesus … that this stone was first dis- covered by a shepherd, who, while resting, laid down…
- Author Buckley, Arabella B. (Arabella Burton), 1840-1929
- Publisher E. Standford
- Subject Science--Study and teaching, Buckley, Arabella B. (Arabella Burton), 1840-1929, Historians of science, Women in science, Science, Medieval, Science, Ancient, Science--Study and teaching (Elementary), Natural history
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A New System of Chemical Philosophy
- 1808 – 1827
…......... at 38% at 322 & 442 2 Common white ware, and t 40 32 & 4S: stone ware, = OPN CAS seri cees ces ae 42 32. & 524 Oe ee BS eee TF Coppel …, the intermixture of the lime- | stone and coal in the combustion of the latter contributes, along with the … The earth denominated silex, is found abun- dantly in a great many stones ; it is almost pure in flint, rock crystal, and others ; but of stones…
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Chemistry, Theoretical, Practical, and Analytical, as Applied and Relating to the Arts and Manufactures, Vol. 1
- 1860
…rod or pipe descends a few inches into the circular space in the top stone, a’, where a serrated iron ring is fixed; as the stones turn, the notches …which the flour is withdrawn the grain from hich it is distil” g the stones. / Bf B, from the stoné which con: ases into Y’ y’ y’, the second creeper-box …with some refractory and non-conducting material, generally rubbish stones, and the parts adjoining the tuyeres of pudding-stone, through which…
- Author Muspratt, Sheridan, 1821-1871
- Publisher Mackenzie, William
- Contributor Horsford, Eben Norton, 1818-1893
- Engraver Cook, Conrad
- Subject Chemistry, Technical, Chemistry--Dictionaries, Encyclopedias and dictionaries, Science--Study and teaching, Science--Encyclopedias, Science--Terminology
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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 14 Number 2
- 1997 (Summer)
… In developing Kem-Tone, the Sherwin-Williams chemists—Nathan E. Van Stone, James V. Hunn, and Donald A. Kohr, Jr.—emulsified the traditional …obtained by sending a $20.00 check, made out to Clemson University to D. B. Stone, 206 Sikes Hall, Clemson University, Clemson, SC 29634-5170. The conference … the majority of speakers were chemists rather than professional philosophers. Not that philosophers failed to con- tribute significantly. Jeff…
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Fairy Land of Chemistry: Explorations in the World of Atoms
- Real Fairy Folks
- 1887
…proper shape to head their arrows with, because flint is such a very hard stone. One of the common tests for a flint-stone is, that you can’t scratch …only thing, though, that’s composed of silica. a All kinds of quartz stones, and agates ” — …,” said the Professor. “ Brim-stone is the very old way of saying burn-stone, and I suppose it got that…
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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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A Tale of Soap and Water
- 1928
…the signs of their presence—the bones of animals they had eaten, the stone and flint tools which they had made, the charred sticks of fires which … they threw water over the hot stones until the room was full of steam. They beat each other with bundles …bath they descended through this hole, taking with them several heated stones and jugs of water. After they were seated they threw water on the stones…
- Author Hallock, Grace T. (Grace Taber), 1893-
- Publisher Cleanliness Institute
- Subject Hygiene, Bathing customs in literature, Baths, Soap