Marco Beretta
Marco Beretta
During the eighteenth century, authors of chemical treatises and courses on chemistry often introduced their work with a chapter devoted to the history of chemistry. While there may have been different reasons for the use of history, its im...
Marjolijn Bol,Matteo Martelli,Lucia Raggetti et al.
Marjolijn Bol et al.
The Historical Chemist [0.03%]
历史化学家
Giacomo Montanari,Marianna Marchini,Lucia Maini
Giacomo Montanari
Is Gold Yellow? Plant Dyes and Gold-Making in the Ancient Chemical Arts [0.03%]
黄金是黄色的吗？论古代化学艺术中的植物染料和点金术
Caterina Manco,Matteo Martelli
Caterina Manco
Ancient Greek colour terminology captures brightness, light, and brilliance rather than clear-cut portions of the chromatic spectrum, as scholars agree today. This also applies to the rich semantic of yellow, which we investigate starting f...
Making Yellows Last with Nitric Acid: Exploring Colour Permanence in Art and Knowledge, 1600-1850 [0.03%]
用硝酸使黄色持久不变：探索艺术和知识中的色彩持久性，1600-1850年
Marjolijn Bol,Giacomo Montanari
Marjolijn Bol
Nitric acid became commonly available in the seventeenth century. Since then, it held the interest of chemists, especially those interested in the art of dyeing. Due to what is now called the xanthoproteic reaction (from Greek xanthós, des...
Stolen Horses and Scented Garments: Vegetal and Mineral Yellow in Arabic Technical Literature [0.03%]
被盗的马和芬芳的衣物：阿拉伯科技文献中的植物性和矿物性的黄色染料
Lucia Raggetti
Lucia Raggetti
Mediaeval Arabic technical literature shows a keen interest in yellow dyes, paints, varnishes, inks, and even perfumes. Recipes reveal that yellow was viewed as just one step away from gold, with preparations for these two colours often sha...
Citrination and its Discontents: Yellow as a Sign of Alchemical Change [0.03%]
citrition及其烦恼：黄色作为炼金变化的标志
Jennifer M Rampling
Jennifer M Rampling
Many of the "signs and tokens" described in alchemical texts relate to colour, from the Crow's Bill signifying putrefaction to the philosophical solvents disguised as Green Lions, Red Dragons, and Grey Wolves. While the process of yellowing...
Gabriele Ferrario
Gabriele Ferrario
Armel Cornu
Armel Cornu
The New Chemistry, as practised by its early proponents in late eighteenth-century France, is often associated with quantification and a move away from sensorial perceptions. In this paper, I argue that the sensory, far from being discarded...