Chemical & Engineering News: Business - Turning Art Into Gold Business September 26, 2005 Volume 83, Number 39 p. 19 Turning Art Into Gold Foundation, museum join forces to put together traveling alchemy art exhibition Patricia Short CHF COLLECTIONS/PHOTO BY WILL BROWN ON DISPLAY "The Medical Alchemist," by Franz Christoph Janneck, is part of the exhibition.
by Patricia Short | September 26, 2005
—Turning Art Into Gold “Foundation, museum join forces to put together traveling alchemy art exhibition” The event seems like an awfully long time away, but this month, the Chemical Heritage Foundation (CHF) and the Philadelphia Museum of Art (PMA) officially begin organizing a traveling exhibition about art and alchemy for 2009.
by Patricia Short | September 26, 2005
Hermann Kopp 160 years ago clearly described the evolution of chemistry ("Geschichte der Chemie," 1843) from "the art of making gold" by transmutation through "explaining and curing illnesses" to his view of the science at that time: "The task of chemistry as it now stands is to resolve compounds into their components, and to be able to produce the compounds again from their components. ... When chemistry was still the art of making gold, when chemistry served only medical purposes, what we now consider to be the purpose of chemistry did not seem to be that at all, but rather a means of reaching the goals set at that time. And the fact that what to us is now the purpose of chemistry was recognized even in the earliest times at least as a means of achieving the contemporary goals, brings the history of the earlier times into relationship with the most recent times, and at the same time resolves the question of how the name chemistry could be applied unchanged to such widely different aims."
February 21, 2005
Hermann Kopp 160 years ago clearly described the evolution of chemistry ("Geschichte der Chemie," 1843) from "the art of making gold" by transmutation through "explaining and curing illnesses" to his view of the science at that time: "The task of chemistry as it now stands is to resolve compounds into their components, and to be able to produce the compounds again from their components. ... When chemistry was still the art of making gold, when chemistry served only medical purposes, what we now consider to be the purpose of chemistry did not seem to be that at all, but rather a means of reaching the goals set at that time. And the fact that what to us is now the purpose of chemistry was recognized even in the earliest times at least as a means of achieving the contemporary goals, brings the history of the earlier times into relationship with the most recent times, and at the same time resolves the question of how the name chemistry could be applied unchanged to such widely different aims."
February 21, 2005
Principe, a professor of chemistry and of the history of science, medicine, and technology at Johns Hopkins University, came across a note by Sir Isaac Newton detailing a recipe for the philosopher's stone--a process to turn base metals into gold. As author of a book on Robert Boyle's alchemy, Principe is one of only a few historians in the world who could have recognized its significance.
by AALOK MEHTA | May 10, 2004
Principe, a professor of chemistry and of the history of science, medicine, and technology at Johns Hopkins University, came across a note by Sir Isaac Newton detailing a recipe for the philosopher's stone--a process to turn base metals into gold. As author of a book on Robert Boyle's alchemy, Principe is one of only a few historians in the world who could have recognized its significance.
by AALOK MEHTA | May 10, 2004
Out of this cauldron emerged alchemy, which had the goal of converting base metals to gold and led to the quest for the philosopher's stone. The philosopher's stone, around well before the days of Harry Potter, was an imaginary stone or chemical preparation believed to have the power to transmute base metals into gold. Seven metallic elements--copper, gold, iron, mercury, lead, silver, and tin--as well as the nonmetals carbon and sulfur were known at this time. These elements could be found in their elemental form or could easily be won from rocks at the temperatures available in ancient times. The center of alchemical activity then shifted to the Middle East. In the 8th century, Ja-bir ibn Hayya-n introduced the notion that metals were mixtures of mercury, sulfur, and arsenic--except for gold, which did not include arsenic. With the translation of Arabic writings into Latin during the 11th and 12th centuries, alchemy became a popular venture in Europe. Although the quest to make gold dominated, many discoveries about chemicals and chemical reactions were made during the course of alchemical investigations.
by REVIEWED BY LEOPOLD MAY | October 06, 2003
C&EN: IT'S ELEMENTAL: THE PERIODIC TABLE - MERCURY C&EN | Periodic Table Element Symbols Ac Ag Al Am Ar As At Au B Ba Be Bh Bi Bk Br C Ca Cd Ce Cf Cl Cm Co Cs Cr Cu Db Ds Dy Es Er Eu F Fe Fm Fr Ga Gd Ge H He Hf Hg Ho Hs I In Ir K Kr La Li Lr Lu Md Mg Mn Mo Mt N Na Nb Nd Ne Ni No Np O Os P Pa Pb Pd Pm Po Pr Pt Pu Ra Rb Re Rf Rh Rn Ru S Sb Sc Se Sg Si Sm Sn Sr Ta Tb Tc Te Th Ti Tl Tm U Uub Uuq Uuu V W Xe Y Yb Zn Zr Element Names Actinium Aluminum Americium Antimony Argon Arsenic Astatine Barium Berkelium Beryllium Bismuth Bohrium Boron Bromine Cadmium Calcium Californium Carbon Cerium Cesium Chlorine Chromium Cobalt Copper Curium Darmstadtium+ Dubnium Dysprosium Einsteinium Erbium Europium Fermium Fluorine Francium Gadolinium Gallium Germanium Gold Hafnium Hassium Helium Holmium Hydrogen Indium Iodine Iridium Iron Krypton Lanthanum Lawrencium Lead Lithium Magnesium Manganese Meitnerium Mendelevium Mercury Molybdenum Neodymium Neon Neptunium Nickel Niobium Nitrogen Nobelium Osmium Oxygen Palladium Phosphorus Platinum Plutonium Polonium Potassium Praseodymium Promethium Protactinium Radium Radon Rhenium Rhodium Rubidium Ruthenium Rutherfordium Samarium Scandium Seaborgium Selenium Silicon Silver Sodium Strontium Sulfur Tantalum Technetium Tellerium Terbium Thallium Thorium Thulium Tin Titanium Tungsten Uranium Vanadium Xenon Ytterbium Yttrium Zinc Zirconium Author Names M.
by RUDY M. BAUM | September 08, 2003
C&EN: IT'S ELEMENTAL: THE PERIODIC TABLE - LEAD C&EN | Periodic Table Element Symbols Ac Ag Al Am Ar As At Au B Ba Be Bh Bi Bk Br C Ca Cd Ce Cf Cl Cm Co Cs Cr Cu Db Ds Dy Es Er Eu F Fe Fm Fr Ga Gd Ge H He Hf Hg Ho Hs I In Ir K Kr La Li Lr Lu Md Mg Mn Mo Mt N Na Nb Nd Ne Ni No Np O Os P Pa Pb Pd Pm Po Pr Pt Pu Ra Rb Re Rf Rh Rn Ru S Sb Sc Se Sg Si Sm Sn Sr Ta Tb Tc Te Th Ti Tl Tm U Uub Uuq Uuu V W Xe Y Yb Zn Zr Element Names Actinium Aluminum Americium Antimony Argon Arsenic Astatine Barium Berkelium Beryllium Bismuth Bohrium Boron Bromine Cadmium Calcium Californium Carbon Cerium Cesium Chlorine Chromium Cobalt Copper Curium Darmstadtium+ Dubnium Dysprosium Einsteinium Erbium Europium Fermium Fluorine Francium Gadolinium Gallium Germanium Gold Hafnium Hassium Helium Holmium Hydrogen Indium Iodine Iridium Iron Krypton Lanthanum Lawrencium Lead Lithium Magnesium Manganese Meitnerium Mendelevium Mercury Molybdenum Neodymium Neon Neptunium Nickel Niobium Nitrogen Nobelium Osmium Oxygen Palladium Phosphorus Platinum Plutonium Polonium Potassium Praseodymium Promethium Protactinium Radium Radon Rhenium Rhodium Rubidium Ruthenium Rutherfordium Samarium Scandium Seaborgium Selenium Silicon Silver Sodium Strontium Sulfur Tantalum Technetium Tellerium Terbium Thallium Thorium Thulium Tin Titanium Tungsten Uranium Vanadium Xenon Ytterbium Yttrium Zinc Zirconium Author Names M.
by BASSAM Z. SHAKHASHIRI | September 08, 2003
Wolke Amanda Yarnell Hong Yetang Pam Zurer Ivo Zvara PROTACTINIUM LINDA RABER , C&EN WASHINGTON " Don't call it transmutation. They'll have our heads off as alchemists!"Ernest Rutherford warned his colleague Frederick Soddy in 1901. But transmutation it was--and transmutation would be the theme during Soddy's life (18771956).
by LINDA RABER | September 08, 2003