Artur Neves
Artur Neves
This paper explores the intricate relationship between naturalness and bioplastics by examining celluloid, the first commercially successful (bio)plastic. By analysing the trajectory of celluloid, we can gain valuable insights into bioplast...
The Nature of Skincare: Categorising Cosmetics with Bioactive Ingredients in the Case of Quenty-Cosmetic [0.03%]
基于活性生物成分的化妆品分类——奎帝化妆品案例分析
Gina Maria Klein
Gina Maria Klein
The beauty line, Quenty-Cosmetic, exemplifies the ambivalent construction of naturalness surrounding an early cosmeceutical product in 1970s West Germany. This line of skincare products, featuring biologically active ingredients, was market...
Marabel Riesmeier
Marabel Riesmeier
This paper explores the philosophical and practical implications of the natural versus synthetic distinction in chemistry. I consider several interpretations of the term natural as pertaining to substances, and conclude that at its core, na...
Constructing Naturalness in Industrial Settings: A Transdisciplinary Exploration [0.03%]
工业环境中的自然性建构：跨学科探索
Paulina S Gennermann,Gina Maria Klein,Sophia Wagemann
Paulina S Gennermann
The concept of naturalness has been a cornerstone in scientific research, philosophical debates, and cultural narratives. Industrial settings, often considered as antagonistic to nature, pose a particularly interesting site for investigatin...
Stirring the Pot: Antoine Baumé, Josiah Wedgwood, Pierre-Louis Guinand, and the Development of Optical Glass [0.03%]
搅动锅里的东西：安托万·贝梅、约书亚·韦奇伍德、皮埃尔-路易吉·圭南迪与光学玻璃的发展
Mark I Grossman
Mark I Grossman
The development of defect-free flint glass for use in telescopes and navigational instruments was a key technological challenge facing European chemists, natural philosophers, and artisans that emerged in the 1750s. In 1805, Pierre-Louis Gu...
Renaissance Goo: Senses and Materials in Early Modern Apothecary Taxonomies and Soft Matter Science [0.03%]
从早期现代药剂学分类学到软物质科学：感官与材料的炼金转型
Jill Burke,Wilson Poon
Jill Burke
This essay brings together research in the history of science and soft matter physics to consider how early modern Italian apothecaries organised and communicated their knowledge from the fourteenth to the seventeenth century through an "ap...
Michael Maier's Medicament Coelidonia - A Possible Explanation of its Composition and Production [0.03%]
迈克尔·迈耶的药剂Coelidonia——其组成和制备方法的一种可能解释
Rainer Werthmann
Rainer Werthmann
The composition and way of production of Michael Maier's medicament Coelidonia, mentioned in his book De Medicina Regia et verè Heroica, Coelidonia, were inferred from indications in Maier's book Viatorium, hoc est, de montibus planetarum ...
Why Do Things Burn? Elizabeth Fulhame's Challenge to the Antiphlogistic Theory of Combustion [0.03%]
为什么有些物质可以燃烧？伊丽莎白·福厄姆对反燃理论的挑战
Amy Fisher
Amy Fisher
Motivated by her interest in fabric arts, late-eighteenth-century British chemist Elizabeth Fulhame experimentally investigated whether cloths of gold, silver, and other metals could be made by chemical rather than mechanical processes. In ...
Rafael Marqués García
Rafael Marqués García
This article examines the origins of the golden pigment known as mosaic gold (SnS2), formed through the sublimation of tin with mercury, sulphur, and ammonium chloride. It explores the textual transmission of mosaic gold from the earliest k...