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Tag: alchemy

Engines Podcast

Engines of Our Ingenuity 1942: The Power of Air and Steam

Dr. John Lienhard

Posted on October 11, 2020 · Episode: 1942 Before the steam engine: seeing solidity in air and steam. Today, we just begin to invent the steam engine.

Tags air alchemy alexander aristotle atomism atoms Ctesibios Ctsebios gases Hellenic Hellenistic world Hero's turbine Heron of Alexandria Ktesibios Ktsebios Philon of Byzantium pneumatics steam engines water organ

Engines Podcast

Engines of Our Ingenuity 1891: Earth, Air, Fire, & Water

Dr. John Lienhard

Posted on June 15, 2020 · Episode: 1891 Earth, Air, Fire, & Water — Love & Hate. Today, Earth, Air, Fire, and Water.

Tags air alchemy and Water aristotle darwin earth Empedocles evolution fire Mourelatos rhetoric science speed of light

Engines Podcast

Engines of Our Ingenuity 1840: Questions and Ignorance

Dr. John Lienhard

Posted on March 20, 2020 · Episode: 1840 In praise of asking ignorance-based questions. Today, a new take on ignorance.

Tags alchemy epistemology ignorance learning oxygen pedagogy Questions second law of thermodynamics teaching

Engines Podcast

Engines of Our Ingenuity 1637: Natural Magic

Dr. John Lienhard

Posted on February 13, 2019 · Episode: 1637 In which science and magic struggle to become separate pursuits. Today, let’s practice Natural Magic.

Tags alchemy experimental demonstrations Francis Bacon John Dee Joseph Wright of Derby Magiae Naturalis Queen Elizabeth Royal Society of London thaumaturgika thaumaturgike thaumaturgy

Engines Podcast

Engines of Our Ingenuity 1569: Alkahest

Dr. John Lienhard

Posted on September 14, 2018 · Episode: 1569 Alkahest, the universal solvent. Today, we look for the universal solvent.  

Tags alchemists alchemy alkahest boyle chemistry dissolve Du Pont glycerol intellectual property priority nitric acid paracelsus patent reaction reagent sal alkali solution van Helmont

Engines Podcast

Engines of Our Ingenuity 1424: La Sylphide

Dr. John Lienhard

Posted on November 10, 2017 · Episode: 1424 La Sylphide: an elemental in the Industrial Revolution. Today, a ballet gives us an odd window into history.  

Tags alchemy ballet elementals gnome industrial revolution Luddites nymph paracelsus salamander science sylph Taglioni

Engines Podcast

Engines of Our Ingenuity 1235: Naming the Chemical Elements

Dr. John Lienhard

Posted on October 10, 2016 · Today, we name the elements.

Tags alchemy chemistry etymology lavoisier metals Seaborg

Engines Podcast

Engines of Our Ingenuity 1175: The Elizabethans

Engines of Our Ingenuity

Posted on June 15, 2016 · Episode: 1175 The collapse of the Elizabethan renaissance Today, we visit a 400-year-old revolution.

Tags alchemy dee donne elizabeth galileo gilbert hariot jonson magic queen raleigh science Shakespeare

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