Margaret D Garber
Biographic Data
| ID | 6700892 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Margaret D Garber |
| GIVEN NAMES | Margaret D |
| FAMILY NAME | Garber |
| SIGNATURE | GARBER M D |
| AFFILIATIONS | California State University, Fullerton |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 2 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 1 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 2 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2005 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2006 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Con or Craft? Defending Chrysopoeia in a Late Seventeenth-Century Medical Journal
Late in the seventeenth century, a new journal founded by a society of physicians in the Bohemian and German territories, the Miscellanea Curiosa, circulated articles on chrysopoeia, the art of transmuting base metals into gold. In 1670 the secretary of this new society launched the journal's first volume with a trenchant defence of chrysopoeia entitled the ‘Aurum Chymicum’, which rebutted Athanasius Kircher's critique of the art, and offered, as…
Chymical Wonders of Light
In 1648, J. Marcus Marci of Prague anticipated two chief features of Isaac Newton's celebrated 1672 theory of light and color, namely that colors are inherent to light and that the role of the prism is to separate the rays of color by means of refraction. Furthermore, Marci argued that colors produced by a first refraction are immutable when subjected to refraction by a second prism. This paper argues that the key to Marci's achievement derived f…
Chymical Wonders of Light
In 1648, J. Marcus Marci of Prague anticipated two chief features of Isaac Newton's celebrated 1672 theory of light and color, namely that colors are inherent to light and that the role of the prism is to separate the rays of color by means of refraction. Furthermore, Marci argued that colors produced by a first refraction are immutable when subjected to refraction by a second prism. This paper argues that the key to Marci's achievement derived f…
Chymical Wonders of Light
In 1648, J. Marcus Marci of Prague anticipated two chief features of Isaac Newton's celebrated 1672 theory of light and color, namely that colors are inherent to light and that the role of the prism is to separate the rays of color by means of refraction. Furthermore, Marci argued that colors produced by a first refraction are immutable when subjected to refraction by a second prism. This paper argues that the key to Marci's achievement derived f…
Con or Craft? Defending Chrysopoeia in a Late Seventeenth-Century Medical Journal
Late in the seventeenth century, a new journal founded by a society of physicians in the Bohemian and German territories, the Miscellanea Curiosa, circulated articles on chrysopoeia, the art of transmuting base metals into gold. In 1670 the secretary of this new society launched the journal's first volume with a trenchant defence of chrysopoeia entitled the ‘Aurum Chymicum’, which rebutted Athanasius Kircher's critique of the art, and offered, as…
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