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Alchemy, Imagination, and Hawthorne's ”The Birth-mark” [PDF]
, 2011 Reading alchemy in "The Birth-mark" as a trope for imagination Re-contextualizing Hawthorne's "The Birth-mark"Critics tend to read Hawthorne’s “The Birth-mark” as his concern about his contemporaries’ overbelief in science, and Aylmer, the protagonist ...
游錫熙, Yu, Joseph
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, 2020 Alchemy, developing in Ancient Egypt and its environs, was formed during the Islamic age as the branch of science and technology, nurturing at the same time mysticism and occultism.
Isakhanli, Hamlet
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Etymology and entomology: The semiotics and ethics of multispecies gene nomenclatures
Journal of Linguistic Anthropology, Volume 36, Issue 2, August 2026.Abstract This article examines controversies surrounding gene names that are perceived as humorous in the context of fruit flies but are considered rude in the clinical context of human medicine. Drawing on ethnographic fieldwork in insect laboratories, interviews with entomologists and geneticists, and an analysis of scientific and clinical ...
Colin M. E. Halverson
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Translating Ancient Alchemy: Fragments of Graeco-Egyptian Alchemy in Arabic Compendia [PDF]
, 2017 Translation played a vital role in the development and transfer of alchemy in Antiquity and the Early Middle Ages. Since its origins in Graeco-Roman Egypt, alchemy was encapsulated in Greek texts which allegedly relied on Persian or Egyptian sources ...
Matteo Martelli, Martelli, Matteo
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ENERGY &ENVIRONMENTAL MATERIALS, Volume 9, Issue 4, July 2026.PDINN‐based organic solar cells exhibit strong thermal durability, maintaining high efficiency at 110°C, whereas PFN‐Br devices degrade rapidly. PDINN's stable interfacial interactions enhance charge transport and suppress recombination, emphasizing the key role of interfacial engineering in achieving thermally durable, high‐performance OSCs.
Hye Seon Shin +7 more
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Between Alchemy and Pietism: Wilhelm Christoph Kriegsmann’s Philological Quest for Ancient Wisdom
Correspondences, 2014 A minor figure undeservedly forgotten, Wilhelm Christoph Kriegsmann (1633–1679) has received only limited attention from historians of alchemy and church historians. He is known chiefly either for his idiosyncratic Phoenician reconstruction of the Tabula
Mike A. Zuber
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Corps et individualité dans la philosophie de Spinoza
Methodos, 2004 In this paper, we want to show that the theory of individuation, which is first inherent to physics, plays a crucial part in the spinozistic answer to the mind-body problem ; the mind-body union is thus conceived as a real identity, more particularly as ...
Pascale Gillot
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Natural Sciences, Volume 6, Issue 3, July 2026.Within quantum chemistry, density functional theory (DFT) is a revolution. This serves as an example of a multitude of other scientific events, supporting the idea that revolutions are always large, if observed with the appropriate magnification. ABSTRACT Distinguishing scientific revolutions from normal science is a subjective, conflicting matter ...
Sebastian Kozuch
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, 2015 A learning tool to enable academics, designers and students to actively engage and explore new future materials via interactive workshops. Material Alchemy presents the most innovative, thought-provoking design approaches to materials within the 21st ...
Lee, Jenny
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