J Powers

Dados Biográficos

ID285364
NOMEJ Powers
PRENOMESJ
SOBRENOMEPowers
ASSINATURAPOWERS J
AFILIAÇÕESVirginia Commonwealth University
ORCID0000-0001-8637-5900
VERIFICADOSim
TOTAL DE OBRAS15
TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES5
TOTAL COMO AUTOR15
TOTAL COMO EDITOR0
PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO1998
ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO2023
ÍNDICE H1

  • Can Ultimate Reality Change? The Three Natures/Three Characters Doctrine in Indian Yogācāra Literature and Contemporary Scholarship

    Open AccessJ PowersARTICLESophia2023

  • Lineages of the Literary

    J Powers, John M PowersARTICLEThe China Journal2023

  • Time Lapse Looped in Hollis Frampton's Remote Control

    J Powers, John M PowersARTICLEDiscourse2022

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  • The History of Chemistry in Chemical Education

    J Powers, John C PowersARTICLEIsis2020Referências: 23

    The role of history in science education has recently garnered wider interest owing to the heightened importance the Next Generation Science Standards (2012) has placed on conveying to students an understanding of the "nature of science." This essay strives to set this development in historical context by examining the changing role of the history of chemistry in chemical education over the last century. It focuses on two specific episodes: Edgar…

  • Indian Buddhist concepts of normative and deviant bodies

    J PowersARTICLEReligion2019Referências: 2

    José Cabezón’s Sexuality in Classical South Asian Buddhism is the most comprehensive study to date of early Indian Buddhist notions of sexuality and gender. This article is a response to Cabezón’s work that critiques some of his ideas and raises further questions for research into this still nascent field

  • The Limits of Matter

    J PowersARTICLEEarly Science and Medicine2016

  • Measuring Fire

    J Powers, John C PowersARTICLEOsiris2014Citada por: 1Referências: 28

    This essay examines Herman Boerhaave's work with the instrument maker, Daniel Gabriel Fahrenheit, on integrating the thermometer into the practice of eighteenth-century chemistry. Boerhaave utilized the thermometer to generate empirical evidence for the existence and actions of his instrument, "fire," by incorporating the instrument into pedagogical demonstrations, chemical research on heat, and, finally, the performing of operations. I examine h…

  • Dreaming Across Boundaries

    J Powers, Janet M PowersARTICLEReligion2010

  • Andreas Libavius and the Transformation of Alchemy

    J Powers, John C PowersARTICLETechnology and Culture2009

    Reviewed by: Andreas Libavius and the Transformation of Alchemy: Separating Chemical Cultures with Polemical Fire John C. Powers (bio) Andreas Libavius and the Transformation of Alchemy: Separating Chemical Cultures with Polemical Fire. By Bruce T. Moran. Sagamore Beach, Mass.: Science History Publications, 2007. Pp. vi+344. $49.95. Bruce Moran’s new book makes an important contribution to the history of science and technology by presenting a rig…

  • X-ray fluorescence imaging analysis of inscription provenance

    Open AccessJ Powers, Detlef‐M Smilgies et al.ARTICLEJournal of Archaeological Science2008Referências: 1

  • Robert Siegfried. From Elements to Atoms

    J Powers, John C PowersARTICLEIsis2005

  • Tibet through Dissident Chinese Eyes

    J PowersARTICLEThe China Journal1999

  • ‘Ars Sine Arte

    J Powers, John C PowersARTICLEAmbix1998

    L'A. demontre comment Nicholas Lemery a initie la cession de l'alchimie en France a la fin du XVIII e siecle, en limitant la definition de l'alchimie a une speculation fantastique

  • Cutting Off the Serpent's Head

    J PowersARTICLEThe China Journal1998

  • Remembering Du

    J Powers, J Power et al.ARTICLEAfrican Affairs1998Citada por: 4

    In September of 1962, Dunduzu Kaluli Chisiza, Secretary General of the Malawi Congress Party (MCP), ‘prison graduate’ and prospective Minister of Finance for Nyasaland, died in a car crash. Immediately, rumours began to circulate that this was no accident but a case of political murder. For the first time, ‘car accident’ became a metaphor for political violence in colonial Malawi. This article examines the available evidence pertaining to the acc…