Author: International Congress of History of Science
Publisher:
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Languages : en
Pages : 248

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Author: Michel Bougard
Publisher:
ISBN: 9782503573588
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 248

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Category : Science
Languages : en
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Author: Michel Bougard
Publisher: Brepols Publishers
ISBN:
Category : Science
Languages : de
Pages : 260

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This volume consists of two parts. The first deals with alchemy andprelavoisian chemistry with papers on Democritus, Christine of Pizan, vanHelmont, de Clave, Matte La Faveur, Marie Meurdrac and Galvani. The secondpart includes papers on chemistry in the 20th century in its political, academic and industrial context

Author: Z. R. W. M. Von Martels
Publisher: Brill Archive
ISBN: 9789004092877
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 304

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Author: Martels
Publisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9004625704
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 296

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The contributors to these Proceedings give an unusually comprehensive survey of Indian, Greek, Arabic and European alchemy which will serve as an authoritative scholarly introduction to the subject. An extensive bibliography greatly enhances the value of this rich collection of material.

Author: Piyo Rattansi
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN: 9780792325734
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 238

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The present volume owes its ongm to a Colloquium on "Alchemy and Chemistry in the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries", held at the Warburg Institute on 26th and 27th July 1989. The Colloquium focused on a number of selected themes during a closely defined chronological interval: on the relation of alchemy and chemistry to medicine, philosophy, religion, and to the corpuscular philosophy, in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. The relations between Medicina and alchemy in the Lullian treatises were examined in the opening paper by Michela Pereira, based on researches on unpublished manuscript sources in the period between the 14th and 17th centuries. It is several decades since the researches of R.F. Multhauf gave a prominent role to Johannes de Rupescissa in linking medicine and alchemy through the concept of a quinta essentia. Michela Pereira explores the significance of the Lullian tradition in this development and draws attention to the fact that the early Paracelsians had themselves recognized a family resemblance between the works of Paracelsus and Roger Bacon's scientia experimentalis and, indeed, a continuity with the Lullian tradition.

Author: P. G. Maxwell-Stuart
Publisher: A&C Black
ISBN: 144113297X
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
Languages : en
Pages : 226

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Author: Michael D. Gordin
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 022600032X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 424

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English is the language of science today. No matter which languages you know, if you want your work seen, studied, and cited, you need to publish in English. But that hasn’t always been the case. Though there was a time when Latin dominated the field, for centuries science has been a polyglot enterprise, conducted in a number of languages whose importance waxed and waned over time—until the rise of English in the twentieth century. So how did we get from there to here? How did French, German, Latin, Russian, and even Esperanto give way to English? And what can we reconstruct of the experience of doing science in the polyglot past? With Scientific Babel, Michael D. Gordin resurrects that lost world, in part through an ingenious mechanism: the pages of his highly readable narrative account teem with footnotes—not offering background information, but presenting quoted material in its original language. The result is stunning: as we read about the rise and fall of languages, driven by politics, war, economics, and institutions, we actually see it happen in the ever-changing web of multilingual examples. The history of science, and of English as its dominant language, comes to life, and brings with it a new understanding not only of the frictions generated by a scientific community that spoke in many often mutually unintelligible voices, but also of the possibilities of the polyglot, and the losses that the dominance of English entails. Few historians of science write as well as Gordin, and Scientific Babel reveals his incredible command of the literature, language, and intellectual essence of science past and present. No reader who takes this linguistic journey with him will be disappointed.

Author: Henry Smith Williams
Publisher:
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Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 244

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