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From alchemy to chemistry in picture and story

2007; Association of College and Research Libraries; Volume: 44; Issue: 11 Linguagem: Inglês

10.5860/choice.44-6208

1943-5975

Arthur Greenberg,

Cancer and biochemical research

Preface. Suggestions for Further Reading and Touring. Acknowledgments. SECTION I. PRACTICAL CHEMISTRY: MINING, METALLURGY AND WAR. Birth of Metals. Essence of Matter: Four Elements (or Five) Three Principles (or Two) or Three Subatomic Particles (or More). Unifying Infinite and the Infinitesimal. Seeding Earth with Metals. Chymicall Characters. Practical Metallick A Promising President. These Are A Few of Our Nastiest Things. The Sun Rains Gold Moon Rains Silver. Catawba Indian Pottery: Four Colors and the Miracle of Survival. SECTION II. SPIRITUAL AND ALLEGORICAL ALCHEMY AND CHEMISTRY. Eastern and Western Spiritual Alchemy. Philosopher's Stone Can No Longer Be Protected by Patent. Mystical and Majestic Numbers. Twelve Keys of Basil Valentine: Impure King. Ratzo Rizzo and the Poet Virgil as Transmuting Agents? Natural Magick: Metamorphoses of Werewolves and Metals. An Alchemical Bestiary. Dragons, Serpents, and Order Out of Chaos. Great and Albert Pretty Good. A Canterbury Tale of Alchemy. Ship of Fools. First Encyclopedia. Today's Specials: Oil of Scorpion and Lady's Spot Fade-In Cream. Vulgar and Common Errors. What Is Wrong with this Picture? Protecting the Roman Empire's Currency from the Black Art. Who Is Athanasius Kircher and Why Are They Saying Those Terrible Things About Him? Alchemists as Artists' Subjects. Allegories, Myths, and Metaphors. Wordless Book. Strange Doings in an Alchemist's Flask. SECTION III. MEDICINES, PURGES, AND OINTMENTS. Geber and Rhazes: Alchemists from the Biblical Lands. Paracelsus. Alchemist in the Pit of Stomach. A Salty Conversation. Magic of Distillation. Distillation By Fire, Hot Water, Sand, or Steamed Boar Dung. Joy of Sextodecimo. Compleat Apothecary. Rare Effects of Magical and Celestial Fire. Secrets of a Lady Alchemist. Pray and Work. A Good Old-Fashioned Purge. Opening Metals-The Art of Chymistry. Triumphal Chariot of Antimony. SECTION IV. AN EMERGING SCIENCE. Ancient War of the Knights. First Ten-Pound Text. A Tree Grows in Brussels. Curing Wounds by Treating the Sword with Powder of Sympathy. Do Anonymous Passersby Defecate At Your Doorstep? A Solution. A House Is Not a Home Without a Bath Tub and a Still. Skeptical about Vulgar Chymical Opinions. Atmosphere is Massive. Boyle's Law. Enhancing Frail Human Senses. Gun Powder, Lightning, Thunder, and Nitro-Aerial Spirit. Who Would Want an Anti-Elixir? A Harvard-Trained Alchymist. Lucifer's Element and Kunckel's Pills. Emperor's Mercantile Alchemist. Phlogiston: Chemistry's First Comprehensive Scientific Theory. Modern Phlogiston Concept. Humble Gift of Charcoal. Beautiful Seventeenth-Century Texts. What Are Effluviums? Surprising Chemical Taxonomies of Minerals and Mollusks. Chemical Affinity. Double-Bottom Cupels, Hollow Stirring Rods, and Other Frauds. There Is Truth in Chalk. SECTION V. THE CHEMICAL REVOLUTION. Peas Produce Lots of Gas. Black's Magic. Cavendish Weighed the Earth but Thought He Had Captured Phlogiston in a Bottle. In the Early Hours of the Chemical Revolution. Making Soda Pop. Fire Air (Oxygen): Who Knew What and When Did They Know It? Nice To His Mice. Laughing Gas or Simply Semi-phlogisticated Nitrous Air. Eulogy for Eudiometry. Where Is Invective of Yesteryear? La Revolution Chimique Commence. Simplifying Chemical Babel. Water Will Not Float Phlogiston. Ben Franklin-Diplomate Extraordinaire. Mon Cher Phlogiston, You're Speaking Like An Ass! Lavoisier In Love. Requiem for a Lightweight. Okay, I Now Know What Means, But What Is Reduction? Guinea Pig as Internal Combustion Engine. Man in the Rubber Suit. Old Marat? I Think Not. Poor Old Lamarck. Elective Attractions. Phoenix Is a Her? in the Barrel of a Gun. A Boring Experiment. Laughing Gas for Everybody! Some Last-Minute Glitsches Before the Dawn of the Atomic Theory. Atmospheric Water Molecules and the Morning Dew. Exclusive! First Printed Pictures of Dalton's Molecules. Atomic Paradigm. Are We Are We Are Here! Was Avogadro's Hypothesis A Premature Discovery? Is Not Physics. SECTION VI. A YOUNG DEMOCRACY AND A NEW CHEMISTRY. If You Do Find Philosopher's Stone, Take Care To Lose Again-Benjamin Franklin. Saltpetre, Abigail. Pins, John. It Is a Pity So Few Chemists Are Dyers, and So Few Dyers Chemists. Two Early Visions: Oxidation Without Oxygen and Women as Strong Scientists. 'Tis A Bonnie Chymistrie We Brrring Ye. For It's Hot as Hell ... In Phila-del'-phi-a. Adams Opposes Atoms. Twelve Cents for A Lecture. SECTION VII. CHEMISTRY BEGINS TO SPECIALIZE, SYSTEMIZE, AND HELP THE FARM AND THE FACTORY. Electric Scalpel. Chemical Scalpels Through Ages. Davy Rescues Industrial Revolution. Dualistic Theory of Chemical Power of a Current of Electricity. Colorful Notions of Chemistry. A Primeval Forest of the Tropics. Taming Primeval Forest. Atomic Weight of Carbon and Related Confusions. Why's Nitrogen Atom Blue, Mommy? I Cannot Hold Chemical Water-I Can Make Urea! Two Streams in the Primeval Forest. Never Smile at a Cacodyl. Want a Great Chemical Theory? Just Let Kekule Sleep on It. My Parents Went to Karlsruhe and All I Got Was This Lousy Tee-Shirt! What Are Organic Chemists Good For? Mendeleev's Early Thoughts About Relationships Between Elements. Icon on Wall. Electric Oxygen. People's Ink from Peanuts and the Finest Sugar in the South. SECTION VIII. TEACHING CHEMISTRY TO THE MASSES. Geodes. Michael Faraday's First Teacher. Chemistry No Mystery. Chemical History of a Candle. Into the Heart of the Flame. Poof! Now You Smell It. Now You Don't. Chem Professor Took First Photograph of the Moon! Chlorine Fairies? Rascally Fluorine: A Fairy With Fangs? A Mid-Semester Night's Dream. And Now Turn to Page 3 of Our Chemical Psalm Book. What Else Could a Woman Write About? SECTION IX. CHEMISTRY ENTERS THE MODERN AGE. Riding Pegasus to Visit in Space. Lavo-Man Would Enjoy the Buzz But Not the Taste of His Beer. Is Archeus a Southpaw? John Read: Stereochemist. Finding an Invisible Needle in an Invisible Haystack. But Argon is a Monoatomic Gas-And There are Others. Searching for Signs of Neon. Just How Many Different Substances Are in Atmospheric Air? Atoms of the Celestial Ether. Non-Atomus. A Grouch or a Crank? Why Is Prout's Hypothesis Still in Textbooks? Crystals Can Diffract X-Rays. Two Nobel Prizes? Not Good Enough for the Academie Des Sciences! It's Atomic Number, Dmitri! Periodic Helix of the Elements. X-Rays Measure Distances Between Atoms or Ions. Where Did We Dig Up the Mole? Xenon Is Slightly Ignoble and Krypton Is Not Invincible. Atom As a Solar System. 'Tis A Gift To Be Simple. Transmuting Quantum Mechanics Into Pauling's Cartoon Carnival. Here's To Long Life (L'Chaim)! Mercury Can Be Transmuted to Gold. Alchemists Approach Atlantis. of Gold Is Noble But Not Simple. Perfect Biological Principle. So You Weren't Joking, Mr. Feynman. Nanoscopic Heavens. Moving Matter Atom-By-Atom. A Nanocar Rolling on a Gold-Paved Road. Femtochemistry: Briefest Fleeting Moments in SECTION X. SOME BRIEF CHEMICAL AMUSEMENTS. Clairvoyant Pictures of Atoms-A Strange Chymical Narrative. White Lightning in an Atom, a Kiss, or a Star. Secret Life of Wanda Witty. Trade Ya Babe Ruth for Antoine Lavoisier! Jive Molecules Doin' Jitterbug. Epilogue. A Natural Scientist. Descended From Fallopian Test Tubes? Index.