« Hair-oes » et « hair-oines » : les choix capillaires osés de John Neal, ou comment circonscrire l’Américain, entre poil dur et poil souple by Sébastien Liagre

“…This paper explores the quasi-obsessional use John Neal (1793-1876) makes of hair: the vibrating nealian hair is a neutral ground, a ground where the alchemy shaping Neal’s androgynous American is at work. …”
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La photographie chez Ciaran Carson : imaginaire d’une technique by Catherine Conan

“…It is rather photography as a historically developed technology that furnishes Carson’s imagination with a store of poetic images – as opposed to material pictures – borrowed from alchemy and ancient metamorphoses for the pleasure and puzzlement of the reader. …”
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Eschatologie alchimique chez jâbir ibn Hayyân by Pierre Lory

“…Jâbir does not give an opinion on the question of the succession of the Imams which divided the Shî'i movement at that time : according to his school of thought, the encounter with the Imam happens by means of gnostic knowledge, and especially through the discovery of the secrets of alchemy as a global universal science. The present article attempts to shed light upon new evidence on the basis of an analysis of the Kitâb al- Bayân. …”
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Savoirs mondains, savoirs savants : les femmes et leurs cabinets de curiosités au siècle des Lumières by Adeline Gargam

“…Wealthy women from the Parisiain and provincial aristocracy and middle classes organized cabinets in alchemy, mineralogy, physics and chemistry, natural history and biology studies. …”
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Böhmes Morgen-Röte und Andreaes Chymische Hochzeit by Virginie Pektas

“…It will highlight the fundamental dimension of alchemy understood as spirituality in the work of the two authors.…”
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Snake and staff symbolism and healing by Francois P. Retief, Louise Cilliers

“…During the Middle Ages the caduceus entwined with the double-snake became a symbol of the healing sciences (pharmacy and alchemy in particular) and today, although mythologically incorrect, it is in common usage in the health care field. …”
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Le paysage façonné par le droit, entre la rationalité du droit positif et l’empirisme culturel juridique by Olivier Barrière

“…The landscape as a product of a social representation is the result of natural and human actions, a kind of alchemy socio-bio-physical in which the legal regulation intervenes heavily. …”
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De l’augustinisme à la théosophie by Jean-François Alizon

“…In this context, why did the Chymical Wedding’s author feel the need to use the images and the language of alchemy? In this respect, there appears to be a dual contradiction: at first, in the novel, Andreae seems to poke fun at Paracelsus and at alchemical literature. …”
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Pratiques historiennes croisées de la mémoire et expériences de l’histoire dans L’Invention du quotidien (1980) de Michel de Certeau et Le Passé d’une illusion (1995) de François F... by Daniel Poitras

“…Memory, though not the object of neither books, is constantly solicited, either as a vast background (collective memory) or as an explicative principle in order to understand the contemporaries’ actualizations, the influence of their memories and the alchemies that they effectuate between their practices, passions and beliefs. …”
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