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Alchemy And Chemistry In The 16th And 17th Centuries
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Book Synopsis Alchemy and Chemistry in the 16th and 17th Centuries by : P. Rattansi
Download or read book Alchemy and Chemistry in the 16th and 17th Centuries written by P. Rattansi and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2013-03-07 with total page 215 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The present volume owes its ongm to a Colloquium on "Alchemy and Chemistry in the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries", held at the Warburg Institute on 26th and 27th July 1989. The Colloquium focused on a number of selected themes during a closely defined chronological interval: on the relation of alchemy and chemistry to medicine, philosophy, religion, and to the corpuscular philosophy, in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. The relations between Medicina and alchemy in the Lullian treatises were examined in the opening paper by Michela Pereira, based on researches on unpublished manuscript sources in the period between the 14th and 17th centuries. It is several decades since the researches of R.F. Multhauf gave a prominent role to Johannes de Rupescissa in linking medicine and alchemy through the concept of a quinta essentia. Michela Pereira explores the significance of the Lullian tradition in this development and draws attention to the fact that the early Paracelsians had themselves recognized a family resemblance between the works of Paracelsus and Roger Bacon's scientia experimentalis and, indeed, a continuity with the Lullian tradition.
Book Synopsis The Chemical Choir by : P. G. Maxwell-Stuart
Download or read book The Chemical Choir written by P. G. Maxwell-Stuart and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 2012-03-01 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: >
Download or read book Making Marvels written by Wolfram Koeppe and published by Metropolitan Museum of Art. This book was released on 2019-11-25 with total page 315 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Featuring more than 150 treasures from several of the world’s most prestigious collections, Making Marvels explores the vital intersection of art, technology, and political power at the courts of early modern Europe. It was there, from the sixteenth through eighteenth centuries, that a remarkable outpouring of creativity and learning gave rise to exquisite objects that were at once beautiful works of art and technological wonders. By amassing vast, glittering collections of these ingeniously crafted objects, princes flaunted their wealth and competed for mastery over the known world. More than mere status symbols, however, many of these marvels ushered in significant advancements that have had a lasting influence on astronomy, engineering, and even international politics. Incisive texts by leading scholars situate these works within the rich, complex symbolism of life at court, where science and splendor were pursued with equal vigor and together contributed to a culture of magnificence.
Book Synopsis The Story of Alchemy and the Beginnings of Chemistry by : Matthew Moncrieff Pattison Muir
Download or read book The Story of Alchemy and the Beginnings of Chemistry written by Matthew Moncrieff Pattison Muir and published by Mundus Publishing. This book was released on 1902 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Book Synopsis The Story of Alchemy and the Beginnings of Chemistry by : M. M. Pattison Muir
Download or read book The Story of Alchemy and the Beginnings of Chemistry written by M. M. Pattison Muir and published by Read Books Ltd. This book was released on 2013-04-16 with total page 182 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The quest to turn base metals into gold captured the imagination of some of the finest minds of the enlightenment, this exciting book looks at the experiments carried out in dark basements away from the eye's of the public and the church. Little did these pioneers realise they were setting the foundation for one of the most fundamental sciences. Matthew Moncrieff Pattison Muir (1848–1931) was a chemist and author. He taught chemistry at Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge and was head of the Caius Laboratory there. Although he published some research on bismuth compounds. He became better known as a writer than researcher though, through his numerous textbooks and history of chemistry treatises.
Book Synopsis Bridging Traditions by : Karen Hunger Parshall
Download or read book Bridging Traditions written by Karen Hunger Parshall and published by Penn State Press. This book was released on 2015-05-25 with total page 462 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Bridging Traditions explores the connections between apparently different zones of comprehension and experience—magic and experiment, alchemy and mechanics, practical mathematics and geometrical mysticism, things earthy and heavenly, and especially science and medicine—by focusing on points of intersection among alchemy, chemistry, and Paracelsian medical philosophy. In exploring the varieties of natural knowledge in the early modern era, the authors pay tribute to the work of Allen Debus, whose own endeavors cleared the way for scholars to examine subjects that were once snubbed as suitable only to the refuse heap of the history of science.
Book Synopsis Transmutations--alchemy in Art by : Lawrence Principe
Download or read book Transmutations--alchemy in Art written by Lawrence Principe and published by Chemical Heritage Foundation. This book was released on 2002 with total page 52 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Alchemy is one of the most evocative subjects in the history of science. Alchemy made important contributions to the development of modern science while firing popular imagination so strongly that portrayals of the alchemist at work pervaded the arts. The more celebrated goals of alchemy, like transmutation of base metals into gold, still tease and tantalize. Transmutations offers a thoughtful look at the role of the alchemist in the 17th and 18th centuries, as depicted in a selection of paintings from the Eddleman and Fisher Collections housed at the Chemical Heritage Foundation. This beautiful full-color book reveals much about the beginnings of chemistry as a profession.
Book Synopsis The Chemical Philosophy by : Allen G. Debus
Download or read book The Chemical Philosophy written by Allen G. Debus and published by Courier Corporation. This book was released on 2013-03-21 with total page 660 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Swiss-born physician and alchemist Paracelsus (1493–1541) and his disciples espoused a doctrine they proclaimed as a truly Christian interpretation of nature in chemistry. Drawing upon a mixture of ancient, medieval, and Renaissance sources, they developed a new philosophy that interpreted both macrocosmic and microcosmic events through the personal observations of the chemist and the Divine Grace of the Lord. Until the publication of this book, however, the breadth and vicissitudes of the Paracelsian approach to nature and medicine had been little studied. This volume spans more than a century, providing a rich record of the major interests of the Paracelsian and other chemical philosophers and the conflicts in which they engaged with their contemporaries. It examines chemistry and nature in the Renaissance, the Paracelsian debates, the theories of Robert Fludd, the Helmontian restatement of the chemical philosophy, and many other issues of this transitional era in the history of science. Enhanced with 36 black-and-white illustrations, this well-researched and compellingly related study will fascinate students of the history of science, chemistry, and medicine.
Book Synopsis Alchemy to Chemistry by : Dr Yoonas Saleem K
Download or read book Alchemy to Chemistry written by Dr Yoonas Saleem K and published by Independently Published. This book was released on 2022-12-11 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: True history shines like a beacon in perilous times. History helps us understand our past so that we can be sure whether we are headed in the right direction. It is a noted fact that diverse cultures that appeared in the world had contributed greatly to the development of science, especially in the field of chemistry. Through this humble work of ours, we attempt to narrate the story of the science of Chemistry as it was developed by Arab nee Muslim scientists from the beginning 8th century until the 13th century CE. Titled, Alchemy to Chemistry: A History of Chemistry through the Middle. Ages. The book describes the great contributions that this science has made toward advancing human civilizations and how it will lead us to a brighter future. This study not only explores the golden age of Arab chemists but also gives an idea of some of the contributions made by ancient civilizations, especially ancient Indian civilization, to chemistry. What George Sarton wrote in his celebrated book, Introduction to the History of Science, (1950) is also worth quoting in this regard: If the West wants to experience the need for deep knowledge, let them turn their attention to the Arabs, not to Greek sources, first. The period in history between the 5th and 15th CE is largely obscured and those 1000 years of blacked-out history are poised to give rich dividends. These centuries designated as the dark ages, however, are the missing centuries of the history of the world. This period is not a void as some might call it derisively. That's far from the truth. Innumerable scholarly works happened. In fact, these long years were the incubation or gestation period for both. It is a pity that a large number of historians have turned a blind eye to this fact. When Europe was shrouded in the relative darkness of the Middle Ages following the demise of the Greco-Roman Civilization, Arab astronomers were observing the heavens from the observatories in Samarkhand, Baghdad, Damascus, Cairo, Marrakesh, and Cordova, where Islamic physicians, philosophers, physicists, mathematicians, geographers, and alchemists were pursuing their researches, preserving and extending the knowledge that they had obtained principally from the ancient Greeks, with some contributions from ancient Mesopotamia, Sasanian Persia, India, and China. It was through these scholars of science and learning that knowledge gained in the Islamic world passed to Europe, beginning as far back as the 6th to 9th centuries. Translations from Arabic to Latin inspired the developments that led to the scientific revolution of the 16th and 17th centuries, with the theories and discoveries of Copernicus, Kepler, Galileo, and Newton becoming the voices of the day. Several modern scholars such as Fielding H. Garrison, Sultan Bashir Mahmood, and Syed Hossein Nasr consider modern science and the scientific method to have been greatly inspired by medieval scientists who introduced a modern empirical, experimental and quantitative approach to scientific inquiry.
Book Synopsis Alchemy and Alchemists by : C. J. S. Thompson
Download or read book Alchemy and Alchemists written by C. J. S. Thompson and published by Courier Corporation. This book was released on 2012-07-12 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Well-researched study traces history of alchemy, chronicling search for philosopher's stone and elixir of life, alchemist's laboratory and apparatus, symbols and secret alphabets, famous practitioners, plus contributions to field of chemistry. 77 black-and-white illustrations, 31 plates.
Book Synopsis Transforming Matter by : Trevor H. Levere
Download or read book Transforming Matter written by Trevor H. Levere and published by JHU Press. This book was released on 2003-04-30 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Chemistry explores the way atoms interact, the constitution of the stars, and the human genome. Knowledge of chemistry makes it possible for us to manufacture dyes and antibiotics, metallic alloys, and other materials that contribute to the necessities and luxuries of human life. In Transforming Matter, noted historian Trevor H. Levere emphasizes that understanding the history of these developments helps us to appreciate the achievements of generations of chemists. Levere examines the dynamic rise of chemistry from the study of alchemy in the seventeenth century to the development of organic and inorganic chemistry in the age of government-funded research and corporate giants. In the past two centuries, he points out, the number of known elements has quadrupled. And because of synthesis, chemistry has increasingly become a science that creates much of what it studies. Throughout the book, Levere follows a number of recurring themes: theories about the elements, the need for classification, the status of chemical science, and the relationship between practice and theory. He illustrates these themes by concentrating on some of chemistry's most influential and innovative practitioners. Transforming Matter provides an accessible and clearly written introduction to the history of chemistry, telling the story of how the discipline has developed over the years.
Book Synopsis Atoms and Alchemy by : William R. Newman
Download or read book Atoms and Alchemy written by William R. Newman and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2010-05-05 with total page 235 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Since the Enlightenment, alchemy has been viewed as a sort of antiscience, disparaged by many historians as a form of lunacy that impeded the development of rational chemistry. But in Atoms and Alchemy, William R. Newman—a historian widely credited for reviving recent interest in alchemy—exposes the speciousness of these views and challenges widely held beliefs about the origins of the Scientific Revolution. Tracing the alchemical roots of Robert Boyle’s famous mechanical philosophy, Newman shows that alchemy contributed to the mechanization of nature, a movement that lay at the very heart of scientific discovery. Boyle and his predecessors—figures like the mysterious medieval Geber or the Lutheran professor Daniel Sennert—provided convincing experimental proof that matter is made up of enduring particles at the microlevel. At the same time, Newman argues that alchemists created the operational criterion of an “atomic” element as the last point of analysis, thereby contributing a key feature to the development of later chemistry. Atomsand Alchemy thus provokes a refreshing debate about the origins of modern science and will be welcomed—and deliberated—by all who are interested in the development of scientific theory and practice.
Book Synopsis From Alchemy to Chemistry by : John Read
Download or read book From Alchemy to Chemistry written by John Read and published by Courier Corporation. This book was released on 1995-01-01 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Broad, humanistic treatment focuses on great figures of chemistry and ideas that revolutionized the science. Much on alchemy, also development of modern chemistry, atomic theory, elements, organic chemistry, more. 50 illustrations.
Book Synopsis History of Alchemy by : M. M. Pattison Muir
Download or read book History of Alchemy written by M. M. Pattison Muir and published by FilRougeViceversa. This book was released on 2021-07-23 with total page 225 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The system which began to be called alchemy in the 6th and 7th centuries of our era had no special name before that time, but was known as the sacred art, the divine science, the occult science, the art of Hermes.A commentator on Aristotle, writing in the 4th century A.D., calls certain instruments used for fusion and calcination "chuika organa," that is, instruments for melting and pouring. Hence, probably, came the adjective chyic or chymic, and, at a somewhat later time, the word chemia as the name of that art which deals with calcinations, fusions, meltings, and the like. The writer of a treatise on astrology, in the 5th century, speaking of the influences of the stars on the dispositions of man, says: "If a man is born under Mercury he will give himself to astronomy; if Mars, he will follow the profession of arms; if Saturn, he will devote himself to the science of alchemy (Scientia alchemiae)." The word alchemia which appears in this treatise, was formed by prefixing the Arabic al (meaning the) to chemia, a word, as we have seen, of Greek origin.
Book Synopsis The Story of Chemistry by : Anne Rooney
Download or read book The Story of Chemistry written by Anne Rooney and published by Arcturus Publishing. This book was released on 2017-11-30 with total page 394 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'The importance of the end in view prompted me to undertake all this work, which seemed to me destined to bring about a revolution in physics and chemistry.' Antoine Lavoisier, 1773 Great advances in human history have often rested on and prompted progress in chemistry. The exploitation of fire, the development of pigments, and the discovery that metals could be smelted and worked laid the foundations of civilization. The search for better tools and weapons drove metallurgy, and the need for medicines and perfumes lay behind the first laboratories. This book traces a story of exploration and discovery, from the earliest applications of chemistry by our ancient forebears. For more than 1,000 years, alchemists pursued the transformation of matter until the advent of modern chemistry in the 17th century set us on the path to the complex science of today. Topics include: • prechemistry since prehistory • alchemy and the transmutation of metals • the rise of the scientific method • identifying the chemical elements • understanding gases • the nature of the atom • organic chemistry • chemical analysis Beautifully illustrated throughout
Download or read book Chemistry written by Bruce Averill and published by . This book was released on 2007 with total page 1233 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Emphasises on contemporary applications and an intuitive problem-solving approach that helps students discover the exciting potential of chemical science. This book incorporates fresh applications from the three major areas of modern research: materials, environmental chemistry, and biological science.
