In my last post, I showed the statistics of what this blog has accomplished so far. I feel very good about where we’ve been, but now it’s time to describe where I plan on going this coming year. Given that I am not teaching chemistry this school year, my work on the Elements Unearthed project [...]
Posts Tagged ‘history of chemistry’
Plans for 2012
Posted in Weekly Post, tagged anaxagoras, arabic alchemy, atomic theory, early chemistry, empedocles, european alchemy, greek matter theories, history of chemistry, medieval crafts, nucleogenesis, nuremburg chronicles, science education, tintic mining district, van helmont on January 25, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
Progress Report January 2012
Posted in Weekly Post, tagged beryllium, blog statistics, Chemical Heritage Foundation, history of chemistry, periodic table history, science education, societe de chimie industrielle on January 16, 2012 | 1 Comment »
Once each year I like to go over the statistics for this blog in detail to see what posts have been the most popular, which search terms are finding this blog, which videos are most watched, etc. I’m not doing this just for an ego trip, but to be able to report the impact this [...]
Al-Chemya: The Great Secret Revealed
Posted in Weekly Post, tagged al-chemya, albertus magnus, alchemy, alkahest, basil valentine, elixir of life, geber, george ripley, george starkey, history of chemistry, john of rupescissa, michael maier, morienus, nicholas flamel, paracelsus, philosophers stone, ramon llull, raymond lully, red elixir, roger bacon, societe de chimie industrielle, sorcerers stone, transmutation, tria prima, uroboros, van helmont, white elixir, zosimos on October 19, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
As we have studied the history of chemistry for our recent unit in Honors Chemistry, I’ve had my students do a bit of research on what is known and supposed about various alchemists. For example, a student in each of my sections was assigned to research Ramon Llull, the Majorcan alchemist. We started by finding [...]
Periodic Table History Videos Are Done
Posted in Weekly Post, tagged chemical elements, de chancourtois, dmitri mendeleev, edward mazurs, elements, eric scerri, gustavus hinrichs, history of chemistry, john newlands, karlsruhe conference, lothar meyer, nsta conference, periodic table, periodic table history, philosophy of chemistry, video podcasts, william odling on March 9, 2010 | 3 Comments »
Finally, after months of waiting and effort, the two videos on the history of the periodic table are complete. Here they are: The title of this video is: The Periodic Table Part 1: Before Mendeleev It’s YouTube links are: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tQghZkTyqP4 (Part 1-A) and http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v-SBTYQNAcM (Part 1-B) The title of this video is: The Periodic [...]
The Intersection of Rarefied Circles
Posted in Weekly Post, tagged glass blowing, history of chemistry, Holdman Studios, informal science education, National Science Foundation, student created content on June 26, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
This has been a busy week for me here at the Chemical Heritage Foundation. On Tuesday, June 23 I presented The Elements Unearthed project at a Brown Bag Lunch here. It’s pretty informal; people bring their lunches and eat while the speaker presents. I had 20 people attend, which was very nice. I would have been [...]
My Fellowship at the Chemical Heritage Foundation
Posted in Weekly Post, tagged alchemy, chemical heritage fourdation, donald othmer, history of chemistry, making modernity, research fellowship, roy neville, societe de chimie industrielle, transmutation on June 8, 2009 | 2 Comments »
Last week I drove 2300 miles from Utah to Philadelphia to take up my three-month residence at the Chemical Heritage Foundation. Today I’ll describe more about what CHF is, how I came to have this fellowship, and what I will be doing with it. The Chemical Heritage Foundation was established as the Center for the History [...]
