The Archaeology of Alchemy and Chemistry: Past, Present, and Ideas for the Future [0.03%]
Alchemy和Chemistry的考古学：过去，现在与未来的想法
Umberto Veronesi
Umberto Veronesi
The materials and practices of chymical procedures have become key sources of information among science historians, opening up channels for cross-disciplinary dialogue. This is especially true with regard to material culture-based disciplin...
Gershom Bulkeley, "Saltbox Science," and the Colonial New England Laboratory [0.03%]
格尔松·布尔克利，“盐盒科学”与殖民地新英格兰实验室
George D Elliott
George D Elliott
This article investigates the prolific colonial New England alchemist and physician Gershom Bulkeley (1635/36-1713) and his late seventeenth-century household laboratory. First, I provide an updated bibliography and biography of Bulkeley an...
When Ben met Mary: The Letters of Benjamin Thompson, Reichsgraf von Rumford, to Mary Temple, Viscountess Palmerston, 1793-1804 [0.03%]
本与玛丽的相遇： Benjamin Thompson，伦福德公爵致Mary Temple，帕默斯顿子爵夫人书信集（1793-1804）
Frank A J L James
Frank A J L James
This paper publishes the sixty-nine surviving very personal letters that Reichsgraf von Rumford wrote to Viscountess Palmerston after they met in Milan in 1793. The letters draw attention to the private domestic spaces of science and the cr...
Deciphering the Hermeticae Philosophiae Medulla: Textual Cultures of Alchemical Secrecy [0.03%]
解读《秘哲学之精要》：炼金术保密的文化文本传统
Megan Piorko,Sarah Lang,Richard Bean
Megan Piorko
This article presents the decryption, historical analysis, and alchemical interpretation of an alchemical cipher found in a shared notebook of John and Arthur Dee (British Library MS Sloane 1902). The cipher is an early example of a Bellaso...
George E. Davis: Editing the Chemical Trade Journal, 1887-1906 [0.03%]
乔治·E·戴维斯：编辑《化工贸易期刊》，1887—1906年
Peter Reed
Peter Reed
This article explores George Davis's editing of the Chemical Trades Journal (CTJ) between 1887 and 1906, a period during which he was also working as a consultant chemist and consultant chemical engineer. Davis had worked from 1870 in vario...
Barry Sturman,David Garrioch
Barry Sturman
The categories of "amateur" and "professional" remain central in studies on the sociology of nineteenth-century science. This article joins a growing body of literature that points out the complicated and intersecting connections between th...
Donna Bilak
Donna Bilak
Environmental Alchemy: Mercury-Gold Amalgamation Mining and the Transformation of the Earth [0.03%]
点石成金：汞-金齐熔采矿与地球的重塑
Donna Bilak,George Vrtis
Donna Bilak
Wherever mercury-gold amalgamation mining unfolds, alchemical processes abound. They are there as catalytic agents forming amalgams at atomic levels. They are there as cultural agents transforming rocks into cell phones and all kinds of con...
Making Mercury's Histories: Mercury in Gold Mining's Past and Present [0.03%]
《重塑水星的历史：过去与现在金矿业中的水星》
Peter Oakley
Peter Oakley
This article considers the presence and absence of mercury, and why in different social arenas where gold features, mercury can become either pervasive or elusive. To substantiate this argument, the article offers two contrasting examples: ...
Amalgamated Histories: Tracing Quicksilver's Legacy Through Environmental and Political Bodies in Andean and Amazonian Gold Mining [0.03%]
合流的历史：通过安第斯和亚马逊金矿开采中的环境和政治身体追溯水银的遗产痕迹
Sebastián Rubiano-Galvis,Jimena Diaz Leiva,Ruth Goldstein
Sebastián Rubiano-Galvis
This article argues that the centuries-long history of mercury-gold amalgamation is crucial to contemporary debates surrounding global mercury pollution from artisanal and small-scale gold mining. Drawing on historical findings that examine...