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Experiments in alchemy. Part II: Medieval |
Posted by: Paul Ferguson - 10-25-2023, 05:31 PM - Forum: Articles on alchemy
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"The authors consider a number of medieval discoveries from the heyday of alchemy: Greek fire, gunpowder sulfurous water, distillation, acids, bases, lead acetate, transmutations, slug gold, Tiffereau's gold, and "Spanish gold."
Full text with pdf button.
https://pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/ed053p235
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Jean-Baptiste Dumas and the (Al)chemical Quest |
Posted by: Paul Ferguson - 10-25-2023, 05:13 PM - Forum: Articles on alchemy
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The Mixed Blessings of Pragmatism. Jean-Baptiste Dumas and the (Al)chemical Quest for Metallic Transmutation
Leonardo Anatrini
"There were at least three prerequisites for the transmutability of metals to become once again a scientifically acceptable subject of research from the 1810s: new hypotheses concerning the mutual reducibility of certain elements, such as those of integer multiples and protyle put forward by the British chemist and physician Wil-liam Prout; the experimental confirmation that chemical compounds with the same percentage composition could be substances with very different properties, i.e. the discovery of isomerism and allotropy; the comparison between metals and compound radicals of organic chemistry. This paper aims at illustrating how these premises were exploited by Jean-Baptiste Dumas, one of the leading French chemists of the 19th cen-tury, to reintroduce in the chemical discourse the alchemical topic of transmutation."
https://riviste.fupress.net/index.php/su.../2169/1547
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Principe: Dibner Library Lecture |
Posted by: Paul Ferguson - 10-25-2023, 05:12 PM - Forum: Articles on alchemy
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"Alchemy.” To most people, the word stirs up a vision of medieval conjurors experimenting with ways of turning base metals into gold. Nothing could be further from the truth,
says Lawrence M. Principe, the 21st annual lecturer in the series hosted by the Dibner Library of the History of Science and Technology of the Smithsonian Libraries. In this highly
readable essay expanded from his lecture, Dr. Principe traces the fascination of practitioners, theorists, and scientists with the idea of transmutation of base metals from earliest
times, invigorated again in the 19th and early 20th centuries. He highlights “the successive making-up and breaking-up of alchemy and chemistry,” since both were stimulated
by “the desire to understand and to control matter and its transformations."
https://library.si.edu/sites/default/fil...efinal.pdf
See the lecture here:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Gc2YYPow6c
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Dissertation: Rhetorical Construction of the Experimental Philosopher |
Posted by: Paul Ferguson - 10-24-2023, 06:20 PM - Forum: Articles on alchemy
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Jennifer O'Meara.
ALCHEMISTS, EPICS, AND HEROES: THE RHETORICAL CONSTRUCTION OF THE SEVENTEENTH CENTURY EXPERIMENTAL PHILOSOPHER
"This dissertation contributes to the cultural study of the history of science by examining the rhetorical construction of seventeenth century natural
philosophy and natural philosophers in a literary context. I offer as the heart of my study an original interpretation of Thomas Sprat’s History of the Royal Society
as a prose epic...The chapters surrounding my reading of the History illustrate two very different rhetorical strategies that were used to explain and legitimize the character of the new experimentalist. The first strategy attempted to use comparisons and contrasts between the experimentalist and the alchemist."
https://core.ac.uk/download/pdf/158304481.pdf
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