From Alchemy to Chemistry in Picture and Story

Arthur Greenberg 지음

Wiley-Interscience 2006년 12월 15일 출간

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Praise for From Alchemy to Chemistry in Picture and Storyquot;The timeline from alchemy to chemistry contains some of the most mystifying ideas and images that humans have ever devised. Arthur Greenberg shows us this wonderful world in a unique and highly readable book.quot;-Dr. John Emsley, author of The Elements of Murder: A History of Poisonquot;Art Greenberg takes us, through text and lovingly selected images, on a 'magical mystery tour' of the chemical universe. No matter what page you open, there is a chemical story worth telling.quot;-Dr. Roald Hoffmann, Nobel Laureate and coauthor of Chemistry Imaginedquot;Chemistry has perhaps the most intricate, most fascinating, and certainly most romantic history of all the sciences. Arthur Greenberg's essays-delightful, learned, quirky, highly personal, and richly illustrated with contemporary drawings (many of great rarity and beauty)-provide a kaleidoscope of intellectual landscapes, bringing the experiments, the ideas, and the human figures of chemistry's past intensely alive.quot;-Dr. Oliver Sacks, author of AwakeningsFrom Alchemy to Chemistry in Picture and Story takes you on an illustrated tour of chemistry's fascinating history, from its early focus on the spiritual relationship between man and nature to some of today's most cutting-edge applications. Drawing from rare publications and artwork that span over five centuries, the book contains nearly 200 essays and over 350 illustrations-including 24 in full color-that tell the engaging story of the development of this fundamental science and its connection with human history.Join Arthur Greenberg as he combines the quot;best of the bestquot; from his previous works (as well as several new essays) to paint a colorful picture of chemistry's remarkable origins!

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Preface.Suggestions for Further Reading and Touring.Acknowledgments.SECTION I. PRACTICAL CHEMISTRY: MINING, METALLURGY AND WAR.The Birth of Metals.The Essence of Matter: Four Elements (or Five); Three Principles (or Two); or Three Subatomic Particles (or More).Unifying The Infinite and the Infinitesimal.Seeding The Earth with Metals.Chymicall Characters.Practical Metallick Chemistry.A Promising President.These Are A Few of Our Nastiest Things."The Sun Rains Gold; The 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.The Philosopher&-s Stone Can No Longer Be Protected by Patent.Mystical and Majestic Numbers.Twelve Keys of Basil Valentine: The 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.Albert The Great and "Albert The Pretty Good."A Canterbury Tale of Alchemy.The Ship of Fools.The First Modern 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.The Wordless Book.Strange Doings in an Alchemist's Flask.SECTION III. MEDICINES, PURGES, AND OINTMENTS.Geber and Rhazes: Alchemists from the Biblical Lands.Paracelsus.The Alchemist in the Pit of My Stomach.A Salty Conversation.The Magic of Distillation.Distillation By Fire, Hot Water, Sand, or Steamed Boar Dung.The Joy of Sextodecimo.The Compleat Apothecary."Rare Effects of Magical and Cele

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?The fun that Greenberg evidently had in writing this mix of landmarks and light-hearted stuff is absolutely contagious.? (Ambix, November 2008)"My advice to everyone who is interested in the history of chemistry: give your old versions of Greenberg's books away and buy the new one." (Angewandte Chemie International Edition, July 2, 2007)"?a book that the reviewer would have been delighted to have discovered as a student in high school or college?" (Bulletin for the History of Chemistry, Fall 2007)"'A light-hearted tour through selected highlights of chemical history'?has been admirably achieved in this generously illustrated book." (CHOICE, July 2007)??can be strongly recommended?it will put a smile on your face on the way to the lab.? (Chemistry World, July 2007)

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저자(글) Arthur Greenberg

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Arthur Greenberg is Professor of Chemistry and former Dean of the College of Engineering and Physical Sciences at the University of New Hampshire. He has authored or edited several books, including A Chemical History Tour, The Art of Chemistry, and The Amide Linkage, all published by Wiley.