Thesis-Building: Architecture, Alchemy and the Constructive Moment(s) of a Doctoral Dissertation by Willem de Bruijn

“…By revisiting these moments, the paper traces the genesis of the author’s thesis on Architecture and Alchemy and explores the metaphor of construction encountered in the work of cultural theorist Walter Benjamin. …”
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Demystifying E407 and E407a Additives (Carrageenans) Through Their Gastronomic Alchemy: A Contribution to Increase Consumer Sovereignty by Carla Matos, Manuela M. Moreira, Hélio Loureiro, Lígia Rebelo Gomes

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De sol, d’air, d’eau sous photons by Catherine Mosbach, Agnès Daval

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‘How the guineas shone as they came pouring out of the dark leather mouths!’: Shades of Gold in George Eliot’s Silas Marner (1861) by Marie-Laure Massei-Chamayou

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Encoding Newton’s Alchemical Library: Integrating Traditional Bibliographic and Modern Computational Methods by Meridith Beck Mink, Michelle Dalmau, Wallace Hooper, William R. Newman, James R. Voelkel, John A. Walsh

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alchimia dall’inferno al paradiso nella divina commedia. l’influsso su dante dell’opera alchemica aurora consurgens, parzialmente attribuita a san tommaso d’aquino by Marino Alberto Balducci

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The Westward Spread of Eastern Learning: Jung’s Integration and Adaptation of Religious Daoism by Ming Chen

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« 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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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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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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