Gabriel Moshenska
Gabriel Moshenska
The analysis of ancient artefacts is a long but largely neglected thread within the histories of archaeology and chemistry. This paper examines Michael Faraday's contributions to this nascent field, drawing on his published correspondence a...
If You Don't Have a Good Laboratory, Find a Good Volcano: Mount Vesuvius as a Natural Chemical Laboratory in Eighteenth-Century Italy [0.03%]
如果实验室不够好，那就找一个好的火山：18世纪的维苏威火山作为自然化学实验室
Corinna Guerra
Corinna Guerra
This essay that examines the role of the volcano as a chemical site in the late eighteenth century, as the "new chemistry" spread throughout the southern Italian Kingdom of Naples, resulting in lively debates. In Naples itself, these scient...
Olivier Dufault
Olivier Dufault
This paper studies transmutation theory as found in the texts attributed to Zosimus of Panopolis, "the philosopher Synesius," and "the philosopher Olympiodorus of Alexandria." It shows that transmutation theory (i.e. a theory explaining the...
Mixis and Diagnôsis: Aristotle and the "Chemistry" of the Sublunary World [0.03%]
混合与诊断：亚里士多德与“ sublunary world”的“化学”
Cristina Viano
Cristina Viano
In On Generation and Corruption 1.10, Aristotle introduces the new idea of "chemical mixture" (mixis) to explain the constitution of those homogeneous substances from which all things in the sublunary world are comprised. In a mixture, the ...