AbstractIn the seventeenth century, there were developing norms of openness in the presentation of scientific knowledge that were at odds with traditions of secrecy among chymists, particularly ...

This is a preview. Log in through your library . Abstract The first president of Britain's Royal Academy of Arts, Joshua Reynolds was described by contemporaries as a dangerously misguided chemist.

The Communist Party of Britain (Marxist–Leninist), it has been said, had no scorn for right-wingers to match that it reserved for the parenthesis-free Communist Party of Britain. To judge from the ...

WE remember when at school being called upon to admire the beauties of Schiller's Wilhelm Tell. Our impressions of that play were then by no means complimentary to some of the principal personages: so ...

Chymistry applied to agriculture. By John Antony Chaptal Smithsonian Libraries and Archives Social Media Share Tools Print ...

To most people, the word "alchemist" conjures an image of a dank, medieval laboratory with a bearded initiate pursuing the futile, magical ambition to convert lead into gold. But not to those at the ...