... rash move. Nothing, apart from the catalyst, had been perfected. Everything
was still under development. Who knew if the oven they had been designing
would hold together under pressure? But Bosch refused to wait. The Alchemy of Air 115.
Author: Thomas Hager
Publisher: Broadway Books
ISBN: 0307449998
Category: Science
Page: 336
View: 633
A sweeping history of tragic genius, cutting-edge science, and the Haber-Bosch discovery that changed billions of lives--including your own. At the dawn of the twentieth century, humanity was facing global disaster: Mass starvation was about to become a reality. A call went out to the world’ s scientists to find a solution. This is the story of the two men who found it: brilliant, self-important Fritz Haber and reclusive, alcoholic Carl Bosch. Together they discovered a way to make bread out of air, built city-sized factories, and saved millions of lives. But their epochal triumph came at a price we are still paying. The Haber-Bosch process was also used to make the gunpowder and explosives that killed millions during the two world wars. Both men were vilified during their lives; both, disillusioned and disgraced, died tragically. The Alchemy of Air is the extraordinary, previously untold story of a discovery that changed the way we grow food and the way we make war–and that promises to continue shaping our lives in fundamental and dramatic ways.
elements of earth, air, fire and water are separated by distillation and converted
into each other to form the perfect unity, the fifth element. This conversion takes
place by unifying the qualities that each element has in common: earth which is ...
Author: Ralph Bauer
Publisher: University of Virginia Press
ISBN: 9780813942551
Category: Literary Criticism
Page: 670
View: 230
The Age of the Discovery of the Americas was concurrent with the Age of Discovery in science. In The Alchemy of Conquest, Ralph Bauer explores the historical relationship between the two, focusing on the connections between religion and science in the Spanish, English, and French literatures about the Americas during the early modern period. As sailors, conquerors, travelers, and missionaries were exploring "new worlds," and claiming ownership of them, early modern men of science redefined what it means to "discover" something. Bauer explores the role that the verbal, conceptual, and visual language of alchemy played in the literature of the discovery of the Americas and in the rise of an early modern paradigm of discovery in both science and international law. The book traces the intellectual and spiritual legacies of late medieval alchemists such as Roger Bacon, Arnald of Villanova, and Ramon Llull in the early modern literature of the conquest of America in texts written by authors such as Christopher Columbus, Amerigo Vespucci, José de Acosta, Nicolás Monardes, Walter Raleigh, Thomas Harriot, Francis Bacon, and Alexander von Humboldt.
“Glad you like.” Cyrus's voice is slightly slurred as he steers her toward a cluster
of couches and sits down. He rubs his eyes as if to clear his vision. I take a
nervous gulp of air and hand Claudia a glass of absinthe, trying to find a
comfortable ...
Author: Avery Williams
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 9780857076823
Category: Juvenile Fiction
Page: 256
View: 248
People say 'love never dies'… but love might be the death of Seraphina. Seraphina has been alive since the Middle Ages, when her boyfriend, Cyrus, managed to perfect a method of alchemy that lets them swap bodies with any human being. She doesn't want to die, so she finds young people who are on the brink of death, and inhabits their bodies. When we meet Sera, she has landed in the body of a girl named Kailey who was about to die in a car accident. For the first time, Sera falls in love with the life of the person she's inhabiting. Sera also falls for the boy next door, Noah. And soon it's clear the feelings are returned. Unfortunately, she can never kiss Noah, because for her to touch lips with a human would mean the human's death. And she has even more to worry about: Cyrus is chasing her, and if she stays in one place for long, she puts herself -and the people she's grown to care for - in danger.
The removal of carbon with the air-blowing process was applied along with the
steps of adding manganese, removing phosphorus, and then adding precise
amounts of carbon back in. Many would say that Bessemer won. He did. The
steel ...
Author: Ainissa Ramirez
Publisher: MIT Press
ISBN: 9780262358088
Category: Science
Page: 328
View: 618
In the bestselling tradition of Stuff Matters and The Disappearing Spoon: a clever and engaging look at materials, the innovations they made possible, and how these technologies changed us. In The Alchemy of Us, scientist and science writer Ainissa Ramirez examines eight inventions—clocks, steel rails, copper communication cables, photographic film, light bulbs, hard disks, scientific labware, and silicon chips—and reveals how they shaped the human experience. Ramirez tells the stories of the woman who sold time, the inventor who inspired Edison, and the hotheaded undertaker whose invention pointed the way to the computer. She describes, among other things, how our pursuit of precision in timepieces changed how we sleep; how the railroad helped commercialize Christmas; how the necessary brevity of the telegram influenced Hemingway's writing style; and how a young chemist exposed the use of Polaroid's cameras to create passbooks to track black citizens in apartheid South Africa. These fascinating and inspiring stories offer new perspectives on our relationships with technologies. Ramirez shows not only how materials were shaped by inventors but also how those materials shaped culture, chronicling each invention and its consequences—intended and unintended. Filling in the gaps left by other books about technology, Ramirez showcases little-known inventors—particularly people of color and women—who had a significant impact but whose accomplishments have been hidden by mythmaking, bias, and convention. Doing so, she shows us the power of telling inclusive stories about technology. She also shows that innovation is universal—whether it's splicing beats with two turntables and a microphone or splicing genes with two test tubes and CRISPR.
Some microbes thrive when exposed to air, others exist without oxygen. Some
live only in a vacuum, others in pure carbonic acid. Like humans, they are
particular about the temperatures they can survive in – while some can survive
boiling ...
Author: Carol Mccleary
Publisher: Hachette UK
ISBN: 9781848943278
Category: Fiction
Page: 300
View: 780
Paris, 1889. The World's Fair. The Alchemist is how I've come to think of him; he has a passion for the dark side of knowledge, mixing murder and madness with science. Nellie Bly - reporter, feminist and amateur detective - is in Paris on the trail of an enigmatic killer. The city is a dangerous place: an epidemic of Black Fever rages, anarchists plot to overthrow the government and a murderer preys on the prostitutes who haunt the streets of Montmartre. But it is also a city of culture, a magnet for artists and men of science and letters. Can the combined genius of Oscar Wilde, Jules Verne and Louis Pasteur help Nellie prove a match for Jack the Ripper?
I wanted to go to the building site and watch as the firemen dug for survivors, to
see Arron emerge from an air pocket dirty but unscathed. I wanted to hunt
through hospitals looking for a dazed and disoriented husband, one who had lost
his ...
Author: Abigail Carter
Publisher: Health Communications, Inc.
ISBN: 9780757307904
Category: Biography & Autobiography
Page: 288
View: 833
The author describes how she coped with the loss of her husband Arron, who was a victim of the September 11 terrorist attacks, and how she built a new life for herself.
One should have the inspiration and power to answer life's demands in life's
struggle. The seeker on the spiritual path should not forget that floating in the air
is no good; standing on the earth is the first thing necessary. There are many who
...
“Mystery doesn't commit you to anything,” he concluded. We were beyond
niceties. “Darwin, you're so totally com— mitted to your ideas that you're oblivious
to anything else. You've got me pegged to your little category of academic air—
head, ...
Author: Jeremiah Patrick Conway
Publisher: Sentient Publications
ISBN: 9781591811817
Category: Education
Page: 163
View: 145
Long-time college professor Jeremiah Conway education is, or should be, a spiritual act. It concerns the development of consciousness and how we relate to the world. Using stories from his classroom experiences, he demonstrates that teaching is a privilege and lives are at stake in it--a truism that is often buried under comprehensive plans, organizational restructuring, and curriculum reform.
The body itself is composed of four diverse elements , water , earth , air and fire .
Being , therefore , liable to decay , it is in continual danger of perishing from the
external and internal enemies that perpetually assail it . Its external enemies , are
...
Release on 1873 | by Abû Ḥâmid Muḥammad b. Muḥammad Ghazzâlî
The body itself is composed of four diverse elements , water , earth , air and fire .
Being , therefore , liable to decay , it is in continual danger of perishing from the
external and internal enemies that perpetually assail it . Its external enemies , are
...
Some have more form ( subtle fire and air ) . Others have more matter ( dense
water and earth ) . Their shapes – like stone statues or wax seals – are the
different forms that can be imprinted on ether , the primordial or undifferentiated
matter .
Author: Spike Bucklow
Publisher: Marion Boyars Publishers Limited - Marion Boyars Publishers Limited
ISBN: UCSD:31822037388576
Category: Art
Page: 335
View: 547
A fascinating look at how pigments were created, used, and revered in the Middle Ages.
it due to the character that he should assume something of the air of a bully, as
though swagger were a mark of the divine. His figure and expression were
imperial enough until you came to the eyes ; but in them there was a furtive,
restless ...
The alchemy of Air is simply to put everything back in balance, to restore the
perfect counterpoint of intellect and perception. To renew the equilibrium of Air is
to understand that awareness operates in concert with reason and the power of ...
Author: Ray Dodd
Publisher: Hampton Roads Publishing
ISBN: 1612831486
Category: Self-Help
Page: 160
View: 604
Think. Feel. Dream. Believe. "Inside each one of us is a BeliefWorks that takes the raw potential of belief and creates a one-of-a-kind worldview driving everything we do. Our BeliefWorks manufactures the prism through which we see life and magically transforms what is into what we believe it is." The line between "the way it is" and what could be is often no more than a belief. As author Ray Dodd notes, what we believe is a riptide guiding the thoughts we think, the words we say, and the decisions we make. Belief touches every part of life; defining organizations, shaping trends, dividing families, and even igniting terrorism. BeliefWorks, Ray Dodd’s follow up to The Power of Belief will turn your mind inside out, casting a fresh light on how we love, work, play, and what holds us back from the life we desire. Discover seven secret keys for unlocking the true power of belief and put this extraordinary force to work for you.
... ampute un peu de ciel si la musique au loin ne meuble qu ' un peu l ' air je
marche dans mon corps sinon je meurs debout L ' hiver montre les dents à
travers la fenêtre où je place mes yeux et mon retour au temps je ne sens plus
mon coeur ...
A ten - minute stop brought me out for a breath of air . Into one of the banked slot
machines in the waiting - room I fed a dime and pulled the handle . Jackpot ! Into
my pockets I channeled the shining flood of coins , quickly reboarded the plane ...
Curiously , he located it specifically in the element of air . This is the point where
his eschatology tied in closely with his conception of radical change in human
society and in the cosmos , outlined in Chapter II of this book . In a sense , his ...
Author: David W. Mulder
Publisher: Peter Lang Pub Incorporated
ISBN: WISC:89031753965
Category: History
Page: 364
View: 312
This pioneering study in the history of revolutionary thought presents a reinterpretation of the development of communism among the lower classes during the English Revolution of the 1640s. The subject of the study is the revolutionary ideology of Gerrard Winstanley, the leader of the Diggers, a group of rural laborers who in 1649 founded a communistic colony and challenged conservative revolutionary leaders like Oliver Cromwell. The main principle of reinterpretation is what the author terms -chronological realism-, a method that seeks to analyze Winstanley's ideology on its own terms without reference to modern socialism. Primary among the conclusions of this study is that hermeticism, or the theory of alchemy, formed the basis of what was genuinely revolutionary in Digger ideology."
A ten - minute stop brought me out for a breath of air . Into one of the banked slot
machines in the waiting - room I fed a dime and pulled the handle . Jackpot ! Into
my pockets I channeled the shining flood of coins , quickly reboarded the plane ...
When the plaster case is put on the whole assembly is like a walnut again , the
edible nut ' original ' in the centre , a hard outside case , and in the piece from
which the clay blanket has been removed there is now an air space . It is into this
...
Author: Tony Birks
Publisher:
ISBN: UOM:39015048832557
Category: Bronze founding
Page: 160
View: 194
A celebration of the dramatic processes through which a sculptor's original must pass before it emerges as a permanent form in bronze. It seeks to convey the atmosphere of a workplace full of sound, colour and heat. Artists featured include Antony Gormley, Eduardo Paolozzi and Sophie Ryder.
Finally it bursts forth into the pure air and blossoms radiantly beneath the brilliant
beams of the sun . The lotus is a picture of the soul that must grow through
experiences of earth ( physical experience ) , water ( the emotional life ) and air ...
Author: E. J. Michael
Publisher: Mountain Rose Publishing
ISBN: UCSC:32106011333082
Category: Self-actualization (Psychology)
Page: 263
View: 569
The Alchemy of Sacred Living is a map of the new consciousness. It contains the keys to sacred living of turning the commonplace into the extraordinary. Those who activate their inner powers by applying these keys will be led to the threshold of life's greatest secrets--what the ancients called "the Mysteries of eternal life." Book jacket.
During the day , the dome housing the telescope was closed , but sunlight heated
the dome and the air and mirrors inside . At night , when the temperature dropped
, the telescope mirrors cooled unevenly and distorted the images of stars .
Author: Ken Croswell
Publisher: Doubleday
ISBN: UOM:39015034225972
Category: Science
Page: 340
View: 495
"The Alchemy Of The Heavens offers an exciting and accessible survey of what we know about our galaxy. The home of the earth, the sun, and countless other stars, the Milky Way has long been an object of human fascintation, but it's been in the last forty years that astromoners and astrophysicists have made the most startling discoveries about our galaxy. Author Ken Croswell reveals that the Milky Way formed as many earlier galaxies collopsed and smashed together; that may of the elements in the galaxy--including the iron and carbon that course through our bodies--were born in exploding supernovae; that in all likelihood there is a massive black hole at the center of the galaxy, with a million times more mass than the sun, and that the Milky Way's oldest stars preserve the elements created in the big bang, thereby serving as "fossils" of the universe's earliest days. A captivating journey through the modern astronomy of the Milky Way, Croswell shows us how a deeper understanding of the nature and working of the galaxy can offer larger clues into the origins of the universe itself. "From the Trade Paperback edition.
