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ChemPlusChem, Volume 88, Issue 5, May 2023., 2023 A metal worker's laboratory: from Georg Agricola, De re Metallica, Libri XII, Basel, 1556, illustrating a reverberatory oven similar to what Carl Wenzel would have used to divide his metals in the 1770s. This Perspective essay discusses Wenzel, who was a chemist and an alchemist with deep knowledge of acids, bases and salts, and he was credited with ...
Curt Wentrup
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Origins of Organic Chemistry and Organic Synthesis
European Journal of Organic Chemistry, Volume 2022, Issue 25, July 7, 2022., 2022 The origins of organic chemistry and organic synthesis started in the middle ages, long before molecular compositions were known. Paradigm shifts caused by Lavoisier, Chevreuil, Wöhler, Liebig, Kolbe and Berthelot are highlighted. The graphic shows some early key organic molecules, but although synthesis and analysis had become well established ...
Curt Wentrup
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Mysterious filmy veils: Empedocles on vision
ΣΧΟΛΗ. Ancient Philosophy and the Classical Tradition, 2023 It is quite fair to consider Empedocles as one of the first naturalists. Many of his fragments describe the parts of animals, their composition, functions and origin.
A. Afonasina
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Medieval Worlds, 2023 This paper looks at the cosmological texts of the eminent Sufi al-Ḥusayn b. Manṣūr al-Ḥallāj (d. 309 AH/922 CE) through the prism of pseudo-Empedocles’s influence.
P. Basharin
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Die plek van Empedokles in die metafisies-mistieke tradisie
HTS Teologiese Studies/Theological Studies, 2007 The place of Empedocles in metaphysical-mystical tradition This article argues that Empedocles was more than a pre-Socratic philosopher. His thinking was also essentially mystical and should be situated on a large map of metaphysical-mystical ...
J. S. Krüger
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L’âme du monde : Platon, Anaxagore, Empédocle
Études Platoniciennes, 2014 Was there an antecedent to Plato’s concept of the World Soul in the writings of the Presocratics? Given the scarcity of our evidence, it is safer to narrow the question down: Does Plato himself point to such an antecedent?
Filip Karfík
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PLAGIARISM AS ANTROPOLOGICAL AND SOCIAL PHENOMENON
Antropologìčnì Vimìri Fìlosofsʹkih Doslìdžen', 2018 Purpose of the article is to determine plagiarism as anthropological and social phenomenon. Theoretical basis. The author has analysed authentic historical-philosophical and literary texts to explicate the original meaning of the terms, by which the ...
T. S. Parkhomenko
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Doric features in Empedocles' poetry?
, 2022 This article asks whether Empedocles actually made use of his vernacular (a variety of Doric spoken at Acragas) in his lines, as it has been suggested by some modern scholars. Yet, a survey of these alleged Doric forms (D 73, 233-234; 247-248 Laks-Most
Ilaria Andolfi
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Kínesis, 2020 Em seu tratado sobre a hipóstase cognitiva (V.3), Plotino tem por objeto de investigação a fundamentação do autoconhecimento do Intelecto (Nous) como garantia da empresa ontoepistemológica.
Robert Brenner Barreto da Silva
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Empedocles the Wandering Daimōn and Trusting in Mad Strife
Phronesis, 2022 This article argues that Empedocles’ trust in Strife (DK31 B115.14 = LM22 D10.14) is not, as the prevailing interpretation has it, only a past misjudgement and failure.
S. Tor
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