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Oral history interview with O. Theodor Benfey
- 1991-May-24
- 1991-Jun-05
…diamond crystallography studies and other work she was doing on kidney stones. She was a Quaker also, and I knew this, and people probably knew of …Earlham, I just called it History of Science, one reason being that a philosopher, Grimsley Hobbs, also from Guilford, was teaching a philosophy of …place. It was the building for a steam engine to run massive wheels like stone mill wheels to crush ore to break out gold. North Carolina was the …
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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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Chemical Heritage, Volume 29 Number 2
- 2011 (Summer)
… High Society Luminous Lives Going Dutch Books to Note End Product A stone church in Centreville, Virginia, photo- graphed between the two battles … tank bottoms from the Cali- fornia wineries. We dissolved the wine- stone and centrifuged it in caustic soda, filtered it, precipitated out the …enters into James Hutton first pre- Joseph Black. intellectuals. Philosophers like David Hume and Adam Smith and natural philosophers like Black…
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Chemical Heritage, Volume 26 Number 4
- 2008 (Winter)
…pile of 70-down Winter precipitation Latin for 8-across Semiprecious stone Miss Muffet & Jack Horner both did this Meat eater A kitchen necessity … first edition (1 686) of a rare trea- tise by the Jesuit natural philosopher Paulo Casati contains 13 dissertations on fire in oa logue form. …lectures— the first in June and another in Decem- ber—that marked stepping stones in his climb to an apex of scientific and social celebrity status in…
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Chemical Heritage, Volume 32 Number 3
- 2014 – 2015 (Fall/Winter)
…white linens. Once made from the costly and semiprecious lapis lazuli stone, synthetic ultramarines were in wide use by 1830. The Kohn- stamms … undergo an act reserved for the worst criminals? Jeremy Bentham, philosopher and father of Utilitarianism, took steps to change the stigma and …Space Age had officially begun. It was an important scientific mile- stone, even though the 184-pound satellite only carried a radio transmitter…
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Chemical Heritage, Volume 32 Number 2
- 2014 (Summer)
…the air pump in front of a small audience of like- minded natural philosophers in Oxford and the widespread public, educational uses of air pumps … he thought the great philosopher would have written. One such creation was Albert’s Liber de mineralibus …mentioning two underground exhalations, a “dry smoke” that produces stones and a “watery vapor” that produces metals. Flesh- ing out this explanation…
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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 30 Number 2
- 2012 (Summer)
…expressed against stem-cell research,” says Kurzweil, “end up being stones in the water: the stream of progress just flows around them.” In that …strength of science. In the 1990s, historians, sociologists, and philosophers of science were pilloried as being anti- science for making claims …did science move into the immortality business, and at what cost? Philosopher John Gray, author of The Immortalization Commission: Science and…
- Publisher Chemical Heritage Foundation
- Subject Chemical Heritage Foundation, Neon, Vitamins, Vanadium ores
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Chemical Heritage, Volume 29 Number 3
- 2011 – 2012 (Fall/Winter)
…a subtle role in shaping consumer culture. Humphry Davy, Chemical Philosopher By Richard Holmes There was a time when chemistry was seen as the …artisans fashioned celluloid into artificial ivory or coral, semiprecious stones, and tortoiseshell, which was especially in demand for hair combs and …series, and his general writings on science to turn the “chemical philosopher” (the term scientist first appearing only in 1834) into a figure…
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Chemical Heritage, Volume 29 Number 1
- 2011 (Spring)
… Im- mortal Life of Henrietta Lacks raises issues of interest to philosophers perhaps, but to me they seem risible. The idea that I retain any …proteins. A key to breaking the ge- netic code—molecular biology’s Rosetta Stone—had been discovered. In August 1961 Nirenberg traveled to Moscow to…
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Chemical Heritage, Volume 27 Number 3
- 2009 (Fall)
…Alchemical Works of Pseudo- Democritus: The Book On the Making of Pre- cious Stones” Evan Ragland SIDNEY M. EDELSTEIN FELLOW Indiana University, “Chymistry …discovered phosphorus in 1669, he was ac- tually trying to find the philosophers’ stone. Conducting a distillation experi- ment, he was shocked to …collections. discovery in the painting The Alchymist, in Search of the Philosopher’s Stone, Discovers Phosphorus, and prays for the successful Con- …
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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 32 Number 1
- 2014 (Spring)
…rock crystal; or ... how other gems can be made from other precious stones.” As Pliny’s description suggests, valuable gems have been traded and … a whirlpool. industrial scale. A Paris jeweler did set some of the stones into brooches, and others were used as watch jewels, but these were …this disruption of the ruby market, asked sci- entists to examine the stones. Charles Friedel, a chemist and mineralogist at the Sorbonne, reported…
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Chemical Heritage, Volume 31 Number 1
- 2013 (Spring)
… of Sweden.” But Cavendish was a rarity: she was a female natural philosopher—what we would today call a scientist. Cavendish was one of the first …chemical extracted from the nut of the tung tree and used to give wood and stone a durable surface, is used to make a pun about politicians talking …
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Chemical Heritage, Volume 27 Number 2
- 2009 (Summer)
…Despite this long history, it was not until 1763 that the Reverend Edward Stone of the Royal Society of London conducted one of the first clinical …Inspired by Enlightenment beliefs in reason and 18th-century natural philosophers were seeking to unlock nature’s mysteries, y ® la e 6 r ° e 4s y…
- Publisher Chemical Heritage Foundation
- Subject Chemical Heritage Foundation, Science and state, Nuclear energy, Aspirin, Airships
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Chemical Heritage, Volume 30 Number 3
- 2012 (Fall)
…magisterium of truth, I wish to speak of . =: the work of the great Philosophers’ Stone without lofty speech. My intention is , Se __ to be helpful …the holy Roman Church and briefly to explain the whole truth about the Stone. True to his Spiritual Franciscan views, John says that the tribulation …among them, the creation of the essential ingredients and processes. philosophers’ stone, capable of transmuting base metals into gold and silver;…
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Chemical Heritage, Volume 28 Number 3
- 2010 (Fall)
…combine and transform. In his 1618 book, Atalanta fugiens, natural philosopher Michael Maier employs the then well- known myth about the reluctant …Boyle’s thoughts, where he went and when, how he became a natural philosopher, the way he organized his papers, what he ate for breakfast, and … display; an intriguing example shows the procedure for creating the stone mosaics in the gold, sil- ver, and mosaics gallery, a procedure as …
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Chemical Heritage, Volume 27 Number 1
- 2009 (Spring)
… designated the development of aqueous acrylic emulsion tech- : ile Stones nology by Rohm and Haas as a National Historic Chemical Landmark on …town famous as the American home of British theologian and natural philosopher Joseph Priestley from 1794 to 1804. Jackson had arrived in 1813,…
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Distillations, Volume 4 Number 3
- 2018
…vapor does not form salt water again when it condenses.” However, the philosopher never suggested such a process should be used to create drinking …geometric designs and inscribed massive geoglyphs into hillsides with stone. They also practiced the art of mummification, just as other South …the one Reed used to differentiate between clade A and clade B lice, Stone- king determined that clothing lice diverged from head lice between…
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Distillations, Volume 1 Number 4
- 2015 (Winter)
…magazine is from the books’ first emblem, showing the inception of the philosophers’ stone (the embryo). The god is Boreas, the north wind in Greek … of the text that frames it. With this emblem we learn that “the philosophers’ stone is an act of creation made corporeal from that which is spiritual …sion of a familiar mythological theme from which such images as the Philosopher’s Stone and the Fountain of Youth derive—that through touching or…
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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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Distillations, Volume 1 Number 2
- 2015 (Summer)
…architecture, beginning in the mid- 1880s Mattison arranged for the passage of stone artisans and labor- ers from southern Italy. These men built not only … 1930s, the medium was indeed the mes- sage, to echo the words of philosopher of culture Marshall McLuhan. For the first time, an audio- visual…
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Distillations, Volume 4 Number 1
- 2018
…occupational health haz- ards, such as dust from the grinding of flint stones, lead in glazes, and smoke. Priestley pitched in and tried to come …Bookworms were still annoying scholars 2,000 years later. Natural philosopher Robert Hooke devotes an engraving to the book- worms he studied ……
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Distillations, Volume 3 Number 1
- 2017 (Spring)
…principles I have discovered. If you will imagine that I have found the stone of the philosophers, you will not be far from the truth. Morgan’s response …autobiography My Inventions. Tesla told Morgan he would create a philosophers’ stone from his wireless technology—an endless source of wealth. …he may have un- derestimated ozone. It has become its own kind of philosophers’ stone. Through grand promises and chemical mystique, ozone therapy…
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Distillations, Volume 4 Number 2
- 2018
… …CREAR i COLLECTIONS : Alan Stones’s oil painting of the fermentation room at the Eli Lilly subsidiary …frank depiction of anatomy and its questioning of classical Greek philosopher and physician Galen. To investigate this idea he worked with the…
- Publisher Science History Institute
- Subject Science History Institute, Opioids, Opioid abuse, Digestion, Gastrointestinal system