Medical Performance and the Alchemy of Plants in the Ventures of Leonhard Thurneisser zum Thurn [0.03%]
论里纳哈德·图恩泽默 zur thurn医学业绩及其炼金术植物学研究
Bruce T Moran
Bruce T Moran
Among the cross currents of social and intellectual life in the early modern era, wonder, utility, and playfulness combined to inspire curiosity and to give value to novel alchemical procedures and chemical remedies. One of the most skilful...
The Pewterer and the Chymist: Major Erasmus Purling and his Refined Tin [0.03%]
pewterer与炼金术士：e·珀尔林和他的精锡
Aurélien Ruellet
Aurélien Ruellet
This article examines the career of Erasmus Purling, an English engineer who wrote a short alchemical treatise in 1657. After serving the Royalist cause in the late 1640s, he joined the Commonwealth forces in the early 1650s. He then attemp...
Wilhelm Ostwald's Pedagogy: An Analysis of the Nobel Prize Nomination Letters [0.03%]
奥斯特瓦尔德的教育思想：对诺贝尔奖提名信的分析
Letícia Dos Santos Pereira,Olival Freire Júnior,Gisela Boeck
Letícia Dos Santos Pereira
The Baltic-German chemist Wilhelm Ostwald (1853-1932) was nominated several times for the Nobel Prize in chemistry between 1904 and 1909. Many of these nominations were based on his pedagogical works. The appreciation of Ostwald's pedagogic...
The Beginnings of English Paracelsian Lexicography: Two Collections of Words from Elizabethan Cambridge [0.03%]
伊丽莎白时代的剑桥英语帕拉塞尔斯医学词汇集的起源：两种词汇集合
John Considine
John Considine
This article identifies the first two collections of Paracelsian words to have been printed in England: a body of 153 new and rare words, or new senses of existing words, dispersed in the third edition of Thomas Thomas's Latin-English Dicti...
Megan Piorko,Marieke Hendriksen,Simon Werrett
Megan Piorko
This special issue of Ambix is an outgrowth of the Tenth Annual Postgraduate Workshop titled "Society and the Creation of (al)Chemical Knowledge" hosted by the Embassy of the Free Mind in Amsterdam, 29-30 November 2019. This meeting of earl...
A Machine Reasoning Algorithm for the Digital Analysis of Alchemical Language and its Decknamen [0.03%]
一种机器推理算法，用于分析炼金术语言及其代名词的数字分析方法
Sarah Lang
Sarah Lang
Alchemical language has been addressed in several lexicographical studies, historically and recently. This paper discusses the current state of the field and proposes a digital distant-reading approach to the issue of decoding alchemical De...
Protecting Academia and Religion: Andreas Libavius's Criticism of a General Reformation [0.03%]
捍卫学术和宗教——安德烈亚斯·利巴维乌斯对全面宗教改革的批评
Lyke de Vries
Lyke de Vries
Andreas Libavius (ca. 1560-1616) is a well-known early modern physician and alchemist, who involved himself in various disputes. For example, in several of his writings he rejected the heterodox texts related to the Rosicrucian episode. Thi...
In the Melting Pot: Cultural Mixture and the Presentation of Alchemical Knowledge in the Letter from Isis to Horus [0.03%]
交融与互动：伊西斯致荷鲁斯信中的文化混杂及炼金术知识的呈现
Fabiana Lopes da Silveira
Fabiana Lopes da Silveira
This article investigates how the Letter from Isis to Horus (first-fourth century CE) explores the literary potentialities allowed by the complex cultural backdrop one finds in late antique Egypt. By looking into how this example of alchemi...
The Old Ashmolean Museum and Oxford's Seventeenth-Century Chymical Community: A Material Culture Approach To Laboratory Experiments [0.03%]
阿什莫林博物馆与十七世纪牛津化学实验室文化研究
Umberto Veronesi,Marcos Martinón-Torres
Umberto Veronesi
Towards the end of the seventeenth century, Oxford's chymical community came together in the Ashmolean Museum. Founded in 1683, the institution was part of Oxford University and home to the first official chair of chymistry in the country, ...
Good Names but Better Symbols: The Establishment of Chemical Notation as a Nomenclatural Corrective at the Turn of the Nineteenth Century [0.03%]
好的名称但更好的符号：作为分类命名矫正的化学符号在十九世纪之交的确立
Sean O&#x;Neil
Sean O&#x;Neil
Although the Méthode de nomenclature chimique (1787) is best known for its reform of chemical names, it also proposed to reform chemical symbols. However, historians have generally concluded that, unlike its nomenclatural counterpart, the ...