HIST115 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Philosophical Transactions Of The Royal Society, Mystery Men, Reductionism
21 Jan 2016
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Lecture 9 : lack of refrigeration and birth of experimentalism, religion and experimentalism, the holy other" isaac newton and experiment approach. 9. 1 lack of refrigeration and birth of experimentalism. Solution import from east (arabs) expensive (only for gold bc europeans had nothing to trade ) 200bc physica et mystica written in egypt but greek work on how to fake gold somehow the fact that the gold was fake was not known by the europeans. 850 ad the secrete of secrets ravi al how to fake transmutation early book on chemistry again the fact that it was fake didn"t register: tried to find the hidden formula" to create gold. Overall 2 goals: immortality exlixir of life/philosopher"s stone- everlasting, transfer of base metals into gold life. Stepped and killed himself end of alchemy. Alchemists turned into chemists high end research. 2) by 1600 alchemists producing practical products: dyes, perfumes.
