Unwise Relationships and an Unsound Valence Theory: The Chemical Career of Robert Fergus Hunter (1904-1963) [0.03%]
不明智的伙伴关系和不正确的价态理论——罗伯特·弗格斯·亨特(1904-1963)的化学研究生涯
William H Brock,Michael Jewess
William H Brock
The life of the Imperial College-trained Robert Fergus Hunter (1904-1963) was a Bildungsroman of a gifted chemist who appeared destined for a prominent academic career in organic chemistry. Two circumstances spoiled his chances. In the firs...
At the Origins of the De Perfecto Magisterio: A Translation from Arabic or a Latin Composition? [0.03%]
《完美的大师的起源》:从阿拉伯语翻译而来还是拉丁文原创?
Guillaume Delmeulle
Guillaume Delmeulle
The article focuses on the question of the original language of composition of the De perfecto magisterio, a Latin treatise on alchemy attributed to Rāzī and Aristotle. After studying the arguments in favour of an Arabic origin, the autho...
Frank A J L James
Frank A J L James
This note provides the context and transcription of a short satiric article published in the Bristol Mirror on the political events of 1809. The piece used chemical metaphors to provide an understanding of the circumstances surrounding the ...
The Meandering Life of a Research Trajectory: Rare Earths in the Aubervilliers Research Centre (1953-2020) [0.03%]
研究轨迹的曲折人生: Aubervilliers研究中心的稀土研究(1953-2020)
Marcin Krasnodębski
Marcin Krasnodębski
Solvay's Centre de Recherches in Aubervilliers (CRA), north of Paris, has been one of the leading institutions in rare earths research in the world for the last sixty years. In the 1960s and 1970s, its pioneering studies in liquid-liquid se...
Glutenophilia: Chemistry and Flour Quality in Nineteenth-century France and Great Britain [0.03%]
麸质狂热:19世纪法英两国的面粉质量和化学研究
Arnaud Page,Maxime Guesnon
Arnaud Page
This article analyses how gluten was discussed by chemists in the nineteenth century in Great Britain and France as a proxy for both nutritive and baking quality. It examines the role of gluten in the broader quest to measure and render the...
Ute Frietsch
Ute Frietsch
Hiro Hirai
Hiro Hirai
Daniel Sennert (1572-1637) of Wittenberg is known as one of the earliest university professors of medicine, who advanced the study of "chymistry" (alchemy/chemistry) through his influential writings. This article first explores his treatise...
From University to Court: The Reversal of Stahl's Positions on Gold-Making [0.03%]
从大学到法庭:Stahl关于金本位立场的转变
Ku-Ming Kevin Chang
Ku-Ming Kevin Chang
Georg Ernst Stahl, an influential chymical-medical author of the late seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries, first believed in alchemical transmutation and reversed his position over the course of his career. This essay begins by placi...
Learning the Chymical Compromise: Paracelsian and Galenic Medicine in Marburg Disputations on Chymiatria [0.03%]
从马尔堡关于化素医学的论战中学习化学折衷主义:帕拉塞尔苏斯医学与盖伦医学之争
Elisabeth Moreau
Elisabeth Moreau
The chair of chymiatria created at the University of Marburg was among the earliest academic initiatives aiming to integrate chymistry into the medical curriculum. If its practical applications in pharmacy and its relationship with patronag...
Court Authority and the University: Networks, Recipes, and Things-in-the-Making vs. the Abstractions of Made Things [0.03%]
法院权威与大学:网络、做法以及正在形成的事物对抗现成抽象事物
Bruce T Moran
Bruce T Moran
Making things by means of alchemical know-how, and the habits of knowledge used to sort, classify, and explain alchemy's made things relied upon different traditions of learning and functioned as parts of separate knowledge networks, each m...