A Series of Private Lessons in the Science of Alchemy
Author : Albert Sidney Raleigh
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Page : 172 pages
File Size : 49,50 MB
Release : 1925
Category : Alchemy
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Author : Albert Sidney Raleigh
Publisher :
Page : 172 pages
File Size : 49,50 MB
Release : 1925
Category : Alchemy
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Author : Albert Sidney Raleigh
Publisher :
Page : 191 pages
File Size : 19,96 MB
Release : 1926
Category : Alchemy
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Author : Ainissa Ramirez
Publisher : MIT Press
Page : 392 pages
File Size : 34,68 MB
Release : 2021-04-06
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 0262542269
A “timely, informative, and fascinating” study of 8 inventions—and how they shaped our world—with “totally compelling” insights on little-known inventors throughout history (Elizabeth Kolbert, Pulitzer Prize–winning author of The Sixth Extinction) In The Alchemy of Us, scientist and science writer Ainissa Ramirez examines 8 inventions and reveals how they shaped the human experience: • Clocks • Steel rails • Copper communication cables • Photographic film • Light bulbs • Hard disks • Scientific labware • Silicon chips Ramirez tells the stories of the woman who sold time, the inventor who inspired Edison, and the hotheaded undertaker whose invention pointed the way to the computer. She describes how our pursuit of precision in timepieces changed how we sleep; how the railroad helped commercialize Christmas; how the necessary brevity of the telegram influenced Hemingway’s writing style; and how a young chemist exposed the use of Polaroid’s cameras to create passbooks to track black citizens in apartheid South Africa. These fascinating and inspiring stories offer new perspectives on our relationships with technologies. Ramirez shows not only how materials were shaped by inventors but also how those materials shaped culture, chronicling each invention and its consequences—intended and unintended. Filling in the gaps left by other books about technology, Ramirez showcases little-known inventors—particularly people of color and women—who had a significant impact but whose accomplishments have been hidden by mythmaking, bias, and convention. Doing so, she shows us the power of telling inclusive stories about technology. She also shows that innovation is universal—whether it's splicing beats with two turntables and a microphone or splicing genes with two test tubes and CRISPR.
Author : Albert Sidney Raleigh
Publisher :
Page : 191 pages
File Size : 10,93 MB
Release : 1992
Category : Alchemy
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Author : Albert Sidney Raleigh
Publisher :
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 26,63 MB
Release : 1926
Category : Alchemy
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Author : Paul Foster Case
Publisher :
Page : 312 pages
File Size : 43,30 MB
Release : 2009-03
Category : Alchemy
ISBN : 9780982352113
This reference includes the advanced material of the "Alchemical Process" and the "Twelve Stages of the Great Work" which has not been publicly available for more than 75 years.
Author : Sean Martin
Publisher : Oldcastle Books
Page : 165 pages
File Size : 11,14 MB
Release : 2011-10-20
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
ISBN : 1842435388
Often alchemy is seen as an example of medieval gullibility and the alchemists as a collection of eccentrics and superstitious fools. In this Pocket Essential Sean Martin shows that nothing could be further from the truth. It is important to see the search for the philosopher's stone and the attempts to turn base metal into gold as metaphors for the relation of man to nature and man to God as much as seriously held beliefs. Alchemy had a self-consistent outlook on the natural world and man's place in it. Alchemists like Paracelsus and Albertus Magnus were amongst the greatest minds of their time and the history of alchemy is both the history of a spiritual search and the history of a slowly developing scientific method. Sir Isaac Newton devoted as much time to his alchemical studies as he did to his mathematical ones. This book traces the history of alchemy from ancient times to the 20th century, highlighting the interest of modern thinkers like Jung in the subject, and in the process covers a major, if neglected area of Western thought.
Author : Albert Sidney Raleigh
Publisher :
Page : 146 pages
File Size : 22,29 MB
Release : 1916
Category : Alchemy
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Author : Angelica M. Stacy
Publisher :
Page : 243 pages
File Size : 49,46 MB
Release : 2009
Category : Chemistry
ISBN : 9781559539883
Author : Albert Sidney Raleigh
Publisher :
Page : 152 pages
File Size : 41,81 MB
Release : 1924
Category : Occultism
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