Alchemy Research Articles

História do currículo do presente

Nesse texto, investigamos os discursos que produzem uma especificidade para os conhecimentos escolares em ciências historicamente endereçados para a Educação de Jovens e Adultos (EJA) no Brasil. Ele é parte das investigações que vimos realizando no Grupo de Estudos em História do Currículo, no âmbito do NEC/UFRJ, com recursos do CNPq, Capes e Faperj. No diálogo com Michel Foucault e historiadores que nos instigam na produção de uma História do Currículo do Presente (Reinhart Koselleck, por exemplo), mobilizamos a noção de alquimia das disciplinas escolares proposta por Thomas Popkewitz para compreender como os conhecimentos escolares em ciências vêm sendo historicamente produzidos para a EJA. Interessa-nos perceber que transformações esses conhecimentos sofrem ao serem atravessados por enunciados que produzem regularidades para essa modalidade. Investigamos: (i) documentos oficiais voltados para a modalidade de ensino no país; (ii) uma coleção didática disponibilizada pelo Ministério da Educação. Na análise, enunciados relativos a uma educação de pessoas jovens e adultas voltada para a emancipação, a formação cidadã e o trabalho, assim como aqueles voltados para as experiências de vida desses estudantes, emergem como reguladores da produção curricular aqui investigada. É nesse contexto discursivo que se produzem conhecimentos escolares em ciências que participam da produção de estudantes enunciados como trabalhadores oprimidos e que necessitam de um professor (e um ensino) que os emancipe. Em tal movimento, as contingências e complexidades da vida cotidiana vão sendo reorganizadas como objetos da lógica escolar, passando a constituir, alquimicamente, os conhecimentos escolares em ciências.

A Study on the Relationship between Poetic Subject and Alchemy Symbol System in Park In-hwan’s Poetry –Centered on “Books and Scenery” and “Wooden Horse and Lady”

A Study on the Relationship between Poetic Subject and Alchemy Symbol System in Park In-hwan’s Poetry –Centered on “Books and Scenery” and “Wooden Horse and Lady”

Education in Deception: Ben Jonson’s Advocacy of Theatre in The Alchemist

During the early seventeenth century, adversaries of theatre, including religious and political authorities, condemned it as an immoral and sinful activity. Ben Jonson, who occasionally was admonished for the content of his plays, advocated the educational benefit of theatre through his play The Alchemist (1610). In this play, Jonson demonstrates that theatre can perform a socially positive function by educating the audience through pleasant entertainment. In this paper, I view Jonson’s The Alchemist as his advocacy of theatre: the work teaches about the characteristics of harmful deceptions, showcasing the deceptive use of language and the danger of excessive greed. By providing these as examples, the playwright familiarizes the audience with common deceptions and expects them to learn how to discern lies and ultimately to protect themselves against ill-intended deceptions in their real lives. In so doing, a capable audience can transform Jonson’s play into a profitable disguise. In order to investigate Jonson’s argument and strategy, I first evaluate the objections to theatre put forward by the anti-theatrical parties, particularly in relation to their religious ideas, before analyzing Jonson’s response to such criticism. Then, I will turn to The Alchemist to discuss how Jonson displays language as a tool for trickery, while demonstrating greed and ignorance as characteristics of the gullible. I will also examine Jonson’s argument, which promotes theatre as a profitable disguise in fluctuating early modern London society, along with his vision for an ideal audience.

The Alchemy of Us

The Alchemy of Us

The new alchemists

Esta Reseña de libro invita a leer el texto Los nuevos alquimistas: una sociología de la restauración desde México, de Alfredo Vega Cárdenas. El autor considera la disciplina de la conservación y restauración parte de las ciencias sociales y la define como una práctica que se estructura de conocimientos particulares, en donde el objeto restaurable es abordado por medio de un proceso de actualización cuyo fin es transmitir su carácter objetivado. Alfredo Vega analiza la práctica de los restauradores mexicanos —a través de su experiencia— aplicando la teoría del sociólogo Pierre Bourdieu, sin dejar de reconocer la necesidad de buscar otras perspectivas teóricas para abordarla. Es indispensable estudiar la restauración contemporánea por medio herramientas y modelos provenientes de diversos enfoques críticos. ___ This book Review invites to read The new alchemists: a sociology of the restauration in Mexico, by Alfredo Vega Cárdenas. The author considers that the discipline of conservation and restaura-tion is part of the social sciences and defines it as a practice that structures a particular acknowl edgement where the restorable object is comprehended by an actualization process that aims to transmit its objectivable character. Alfredo Vega analyses the practice of the Mexican restaurateurs trough his own experience, applying the sociological theory by Pierre Bourdieu, recognizing the need to look into other theoretical perspectives to approach the practice. The study of the con-temporary practice of conservation by means of tools and models derived from other critical ap-proaches is requiered.

“The office becomes a woman best”. Alchemy, Women, and Healing in The Winter’s Tale

Abstract – The purpose of this study is to discuss the role of women in one of Shakespeare’s last plays, The Winter’s Tale , in the light of the alchemical and medical context of early modern England. Recent criticism has rescued from oblivion the significant position of women in the healthcare system of Elizabethan and Jacobean London, demonstrating that female practitioners were highly respected in their communities as caregivers, nurses, housewives, and also alchemists. Alchemy, in particular, was one of the areas in which women were most actively involved and renowned figures like Queen Elizabeth and Mary Sidney Herbert engaged in alchemical studies. Moreover, the art of alchemy itself is usually portrayed as a lady in contemporary treatises. By considering the analogies between alchemical and dramatic art and their association with the female dimension, this essay aims at shedding further light on the characters of Queen Hermione, her daughter Perdita, and Lady Paulina in The Winter’s Tale . If Hermione, whose name recalls the legendary Hermes Trismegistus, stands for the feminine aspect of matter that has to be reconciled with its male counterpart, then it can be assumed that King Leontes is the rex chymicus , who is the protagonist of several alchemical allegories and symbolises the raw matter that has to be transmuted into gold. It follows that Princess Perdita can be read as the philosophical child , the fruit of the chemical wedding between the royal couple. Finally, in the alchemical performance of the romance, Paulina functions as a personification of the art of alchemy and, as a dramatist, directs the events. She is driven throughout the play by the intention of reuniting the king and queen, Leontes and Hermione, and, in an obliquely alchemical way, employs her magical art to mend nature, thus actualising the healing effects of both alchemy and drama.

Bibliometrics analysis of the General Catalogue of Traditional Chinese Medicine Ancient Books

Objective To observe the development of Traditional Chinese Medicine health maintenance books in the past. Method Based on the General Catalogue of Traditional Chinese Medicine Ancient Books, the author did a bibliometrics analysis from the year of the ancient literature of the TCM health preservation, the year and type of the version, the distribution of the second class of the health maintenance, the unique books of ancient books in health maintenance, the collection in the series and Collected Taoist Scriptures and other issues. Results Of the 551 kinds of works of health maintenance embodied in the General Catalogue of Traditional Chinese Medicine Ancient Books, 404 kinds were completed before 1911, including 3 in the Han Dynasty, 1 in the Three Kingdoms Period, 2 in the Eastern Jin Dynasty, 1 in the Northern and Southern Dynasties, and 23 in the Tang Dynasty, 16 in the Song Dynasty, 20 in the Yuan Dynasty, 155 in the Ming Dynasty, and 183 kinds in the Qing Dynasty. The distribution of edition year was 1 in the Yuan Dynasty, 155 in the Ming Dynasty, 182 in the Qing Dynasty, 155 in the Republic of China, and 47 unknown. The versions were mainly wood-block edition, lithograph, stereotype edition, manuscript, and copied manuscript. There were different types of second class, including 309 kinds of general theory of health-maintenance, 157 kinds of Daoyin and Qigong, and 85 kinds of alchemy. There were 224 kinds of unique books, accounting for 40.65% of the total amount of 551 kinds of books of traditional Chinese medicine, among which 95 kinds were included in the series, and 109 kinds were included in Collected Taoist Scriptures, Quotes of Taoist Canon, Taoist Essence, and Taoist Collection. Conclusions The Health monographs reflect the development of TCM health maintenance level, the ideological culture, and social changes in different historical periods, which is of great value in the history of TCM health maintenance. Key words: Medicine pharmacologic literature (TCM); Incunabula as topic (TCMP); Works of health maintenance; General Catalogue of Traditional Chinese Medicine Ancient Books; Academic development; Bibliometrics

The Alchemists. Questioning our Faith in Courts as Democracy-Builders

The Alchemists. Questioning our Faith in Courts as Democracy-Builders

Physics and Alchemy.

Physics and Alchemy.

Artist as Alchemist: A Review of Cassils’s Monumental

Artist as Alchemist: A Review of Cassils’s <i>Monumental</i>

Secrets of the God Makers: Re-Thinking the Origins of Greco-Egyptian Alchemy

Secrets of the God Makers: Re-Thinking the Origins of Greco-Egyptian Alchemy

Glimmer of Empire: Academy, "Alchemy," Exotic

Glimmer of Empire: Academy, "Alchemy," Exotic

Alchemy and the Magick in the Media

Alchemy and the Magick in the Media

A Review on Rasadhyaya: It’s Importance In Alchemy

A Review on Rasadhyaya: It’s Importance In Alchemy

The Development of Inquiry by Using Android-System-Based Chemistry Board Game to Improve Learning Outcome and Critical Thinking Ability

&lt;p&gt;Student’s critical thinking and their learning result depend on learning design and student’s activity. Most students use their spare time with playing game. Students are more challenged by the difficulty in playing game rather than facing the difficulty in understanding the lesson. This phenomenon is the basic reason of the researchers to develop a game that has the essence of the subject matter, namely Chemistry Board Game (CBG) or we can call it with Al Chemist Knight. This research aims to develop a suitable digital game based on android system. In this research media was used to improve the cognitive learning and critical thinking. It also has purpose to evaluate the response of learners in learning chemistry through alkane derived compound topic. The development of this game was adapted from the procedure of game development process in mobile 3D presentation. The collection of evaluation data model applied was pre test and post test in trial class. The result showed that in the pretest the learning result average was 34.35 with classical target of 5%. While the posttest learning result average was 80.51 with classical target of 85%. The n-gain factor was 0.703. Based on the result of the students questionnaire data analysis, 3.025 of students responded positively to the implementation of CBG. A CBG media makes an assessment of critical thinking, in which the indicator of critical thinking which are focusing on questions get 3,1 point, giving arguments get 2.95, asking and answering questions get 3.0, making decision get 3.05, and the average score of critical thinking indicator is 3.025 which belongs to good category. Based on the students’ response questionnaire, we get the average score of 3.3 or 82.5% which is classified in good category.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

Jalalu'd-Din Rumi's (The Masnavi) and Paulo Coelho's (The Alchemist) : A Study of Mystical Analogy

يهدف هذا البحث أولا إلى تقديم لمحة موجزة عن مجامع العلوم في الحقبة ما-قبل الإسلامية. ولتوضيح كيفية صعود التقاليد الإسلامية في مجال مأسسة العلوم وتأسيس ورعاية المجامع سيدرس نموذج بيت الحكمة في بغداد الذي ازدهر في القرن التاسع الميلادي عن كثب وذلك في ضوء المصادر العربية الأساسية وكذلك الأدب العالمي المعاصر المتعلقب الموضوع.ومن ثم سيتجاوز البحث الذي تم عرضه عن بيت الحكمة ويناقش النظرية القائلة إن بيت الحكمة كان بمثابة مجمع علمي سبق في تأسيسه وبقرون أكاديمية لينتشي الشهيرة والتي يعتبرها البعض أول أكاديمية علوم في العالم تأسست في روما عام 1603.

Astrologie alchemiche: Ermetismi in transizione e culture occidentali

Alchemy is the “sacred art” of the transmutation of metals or human beings, and often these two tendencies are expressed together in an allegorical mode infused with an astrological imager reflecting their mystical nature. The astrology is bound to alchemy in the search for the most favorable moment for commencing an enterprise (catarchic astrology) or in the form of the interrogational method, in which the horoscope of the precise moment at which a query is made to the astrologer is interpreted to provide an answer. Finally, the article illustrates these themes in some ancient manuscripts from Turin’s National University Library.

The Materials of Life

In Chapter 2 of his bZook Making, T. Ingold relates some experiments he carried out along with students of his 4 As course. These experiments lead to reconsider objects as solidified materials, and to reconsider “making” as a process of growth that eludes the hylomorphic model. The materials themselves are active potentials, and the making process consists in joining our forces with theirs. For this reason, alchemy may best describe the riddle of materials.

Deploy tools that are essential to the office and alchemy of healing

A simple change to the primary care consultation room can have a significant impact on the patient experience. Simply by having patients sit in the “big chair” typically reserved for the general practitioner puts the patient at the centre of attention, making both a physical and psychological impact.

Pharmacy, alchemy and endless possibilities

Pharmacy, alchemy and endless possibilities