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Showing 1 to 20 of 71 for “"Alchemy"”.
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Experiments in Chinese alchemy
Thesis (B.S.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Humanities, 1967.
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The Alchemy of the Everyday
Everyday objects inspire and inform what I do. The personal histories and associations we may have with ordinary things are of great personal interest to me. Often times, these items reflect the social class, education, and background of the owners. I am drawn to these objects and the possibility …
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Alchemy In Selected Plays Of Shakespeare
Alchemy, as a philosophical system incorporating elements of religion, psychology, and myth, provided a rich matrix of imagery and associations. The mean of certain allusions and processes in Shakespeare's plays are clarified and extended by reference to alchemical concepts. Research includes …
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Alchemy and <i>Finnegans Wake</i>
… bear all the ramifications and implications of alchemy as a process and a reference pattern.</p> <p><em>Finnegans Wake</em> is a very particular Philosopher's Stone, however, one which undermines the conventional, common notion of alchemy prevalent in the nineteenth century. Part of Joyce’s …
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Computational Alchemy: The Rational Design of New Superhard Materials
First--principles electronic structure calculations have been performed to help identify and direct the synthesis of new superhard compounds. An improved figure of merit for hardness is identified and used to show that carbon nitrides are not likely to be harder than diamond.
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From alchemy to epistemology : intuition and private midwifery in Australia
Background Intuition entered the lexicon describing midwifery practice as early as the 14th Century and it has remained a component ever since. The Australian College of Midwives (2009) philosophical statement of midwifery identifies evidence, experience and intuition as the central …
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Of Books and Fire: Approaching the Alchemy of Carl Gustav Jung
… Process” and “Notions of Redemption in Alchemy.” In the first of three sections, Transformations is considered as a template for Jung’s “Dream Symbols” and “Redemption” essays, both in methodology and manner of exposition. Jung’s Red Book is claimed, further, to have shaped the …
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The Printer's Grey : alchemy, ritual and performance in fine art printmaking
… in-between processes of printmaking in terms of alchemy and ritual through the figure of the printmaker. The project is everything in-between the initial idea for a print and the final product, a space I have come to refer to as The Printer's Grey. This reflects my own art-making methodology and …
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The alchemy of the dhikr ritual: South African Sufi women experiences
This research examines the embodied ritual practices and processes of self-cultivation experienced by South African Sufi women, contextualising these within the historical, cultural, and gendered frameworks that have long shaped religious and social life in South Africa. Situated in feminist …
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ALCHEMY a seemingly magical process of transformation, creation, or combination : waste - waste not
RESEARCH QUESTION: How can organic waste be used as sustainable material for an architectural proposition that has the potential to educate and promote a sustainable way of looking at waste? ABSTRACT: Waste has become a major issue worldwide, especially in terms of the environmental damage it …
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Blood, Water and Mars: Soviet Science and the Alchemy for a New Man
The themes of blood, water and Mars in Soviet science and technology show the strong utopian and even religious foundations of Soviet society, which invariably centered around forging a new environment and, in so doing, a new variety of human to inhabit it. In the minds and experiments of some of …
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Providence and Alchemy: Paracelsus on How Knowledge Unfolded, Matter Developed, and Bodies Might Be Perfected.
… broadly for providential transformation was 'alchemy.' Contrary to the current consensus view in the scholarship, however, I show that in addition to this broad usage of the term, Paracelsus remained a believer in and practitioner of metallic transmutation also. By connecting Paracelsus's …
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The Alchemy of Acceptance: How Accepting Emotions Enhances the Ability to Flexibly Work with Them
Positive psychology’s study of human well-being has not fully examined the adaptive ways we encounter and interact with negative emotions. Research shows that acceptance, an emotion regulation technique involving non-judgmentally and non-reactively encountering negative emotion, benefits …
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The Golden Age And The Age Of Gold: Memory And The Alchemy Of History In California, 1877-1888
This thesis analyzes the process by which Hubert Howe Bancroft and his assistant Thomas Savage collected a preserved a primary cultural memory of California from the aging populations of Alta California (1769-1846) in the form of dictated oral memoirs. The diversity of the testators included in the …
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An Alchemy of Smoke and Flame: The Politics of Tear Gas Use Against Social Movements in the United States
Tear gas is a chemical weapon used by the police to put a stop to protests, riots, and other large-scale political actions. It has been employed for over one hundred years, yet our historical and political understanding of the technology is relatively limited. The historical framings of tear gas …
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Transcendental Exchange: Alchemical Discourse in Romantic Philosophy and Literature
… can be said for mysticism in general, of which alchemy is a subset. This project accounts for alchemy in the works of transcendental philosophers and writers as it contributes to some of the most important conversations of the Romantic time period, particularly the reaction against empirical …
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The influence of alchemy and Rosicrucianism in William Shakespeare's Pericles, Prince of Tyre and The tempest, and Ben Jonson's The alchemist
This thesis traces the influence of alchemy and its renaissance in the early seventeenth century as Rosicrucianism, in William Shakespeare's Pericles, Prince of Tyre and The Tempest, and Ben Jonson's The Alchemist. Shakespeare's Final Plays are a dramatic experiment that ventures beyond realism, …
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The Philosophers' Stone: Alchemical Imagination and the Soul's Logical Life
Alchemy has been viewed within the context of the history of natural science as a precursor to and a primitive form of chemistry. The enigmatic goal of the alchemical process, the Philosophers' Stone, is the focus of this dissertation. A natural scientific approach has shed little light on the …
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