Aristotle's Conception of Chemical Combination

Joachim, Harold H.; Wright, William Aldis; Bywater, Ingram; Jackson, Henry

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“…Is this 'a very nice balancing act', as Sorabji calls it (1988, p.67)? Aristotle's account has certainly proved fruitful, spawning criticism, interpretation, and alternatives from the Stoics and the Peripatetics through the Renaissance naturalists and on into modern discussions of chemical combination (Long and Sedley 1987;Todd 1976;Joachim 1904). My discussion again centres on puzzles about issues close to those arising in the psychophysiology.…”

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“…But this is not an easy task. Aristotle's theory of mixtures has received rich and ingenious treatments both from his historical commentators and from contemporary interpreters (Joachim 1904;Sharvy 1983;Mansfeld 1983;Sorabji 1988;Bogen 1996;Fine 1996Fine , 1999de Haas 1999;Cooper 2004;Frede 2004), in work on which my discussion relies. There is no definite consensus on how or whether Aristotle successfully distinguishes true blending from confusion, and the key issues in assessing this puzzle and interpreting his approach are, I suggest, closely related to the issues that crop up in understanding the psychophysiology of memory.…”

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Movements, Memory, and Mixture: Aristotle, Confusion, and the Historicity of Memory

Sutton

2020

Studies in the History of Philosophy of Mind

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Movements, Memory, and Mixture: Aristotle, Confusion, and the Historicity of Memory

Sutton

2020

Studies in the History of Philosophy of Mind

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“…J.R. Partington's first volume of his monumental History of Chemistry (published posthumously in 1970) is devoted to the "theoretical background" of ancient alchemy: this volume, in fact, is a monograph-length survey of ancient philosophy, from early pre-Socratics to late Neoplatonic schools. Partington also described Plato's Timaeus as "the first treatise on theoretical chemistry" (1970: xi), whereas similar definitions were applied by other scholars to certain Aristotelian treatises, such as the fourth book of Meteorology, explicitly referred to as Aristotle's chemical treatise (Düring 1944;Viano 2002), or On Generation and Corruption, defined as the manifesto of Aristotle's physical chemistry (Giardina 2008; see already Joachim 1903).…”

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A Cultural History Of Chemistry

2022

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FIGURES 1.1 Ceiling of the pronaos of the temple of Dendara. Thirty-six decans made of both precious metals and minerals. © Sydney H. Aufrère 1.2 Crypt South no. 1. Temple of Dendara. Statue of the god Harsomtus as a serpent. Caption indicating the size and the nature of the metals and minerals used (Dendara V: 140, 7). © Sydney H. Aufrère 1.3 Names of the temple of Dendara dedicated to the goddess Hathor. Temple of Dendara, northern passage of the hypostyle hall, Ptolemaic period. © Sydney H. Aufrère 1.4 One of the names of the temple of Dendara dedicated to the goddess Hathor: "Mansion-of-Electrum" (Per-en-Djam). © Sydney H. Aufrère 1.5 Cuneiform tablet BM 120960, Middle Babylonian, Tell Umar. © The Trustees of the British Museum 1.6 Late Uruk cylinder seal, 4000-3100 Bce. Photograph by Ashmolean Museum/Heritage Images/Getty Images 2.1 Flared cylindrical perfume pots set with a palm leaf. Old Kingdom. Cairo Museum. © Sydney H. Aufrère 2.2 Three foundation tablets from Khorsabad, Assyrian from the reign of Sargon II (721-705 Bce; gold, silver, and copper). © Bridgeman Images 2.3 Vials of kermes and Rubia tinctorum. Photograph © Nicole Reifarth LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS viii LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS 2.4 Archaeological remains of dye in Qatna. Photograph © Nicole Reifarth 2.5 Fluted glass bottle. © The Trustees of the British Museum 3.1 Procession of metals and mineral bearers. Treasure D'. Dendara temple. © Sydney H. Aufrère 3.2 Tinctorium (dyeing workshop), South-East Dendara temple. © Sydney H. Aufrère 3.3 The proto-cuneiform signs representing ovens and kilns: MAH a , AD a , and SIMUG. Drawing by the author, after signs drawn by R.K. EnglundA Cultural History of Chemistry examines the history of chemistry and its wider contexts from antiquity to the present. The series consists of six chronologically defined volumes, each volume comprising nine essays; these fifty-four contributions were written and/or edited by a total of fifty scholars, of ten different nationalities. Of Bloomsbury's many six-volume Cultural Histories currently in print, this is the first in the physical or natural sciences; it is also the first multivolume history of chemistry to appear since James Riddick Partington's four-volume History of Chemistry, concluded more than fifty years ago. It is distinguished, among other qualities, by its endeavor to take the subject from antiquity right to the present day. This is not a conventional history of chemistry, but a first attempt at creating a cultural history of the science. All cultures, including the various branches of natural science, consist of mixed constructs of social, intellectual, and material elements; however, the cultural-historical study of chemistry is still in an early stage of development. We hope that the accounts presented in these volumes will prove useful for students and scholars interested in the subject, and a starting point for those who are striving to create a more fully developed cultural history of chemistry.Each volume has the same structure: starting with an interpretive...

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“…Traditionally, Aristotle's mixture has been conceived of as the reciprocal qualitative assimilation of hot and cold, and of moist and dry, cf. various studies especiallyJoachim (1904),Joachim (1922: 194-297, 241-244),Frede (2004),Giardina (2008a: 64-65),Giardina (2008b: 182-183),Groisard (2016: 30-31), andZarifian (2018). Cf.…”

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Aristotle’s Mixture in its Medical and Philosophical Background: The Hippocratic De victu and the Aristotelian De generatione et corruptione

Mirrone

2021

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Aristotle’s notion of qualitative interaction ruling both the process of mixture and the process of reciprocal elemental transmutation is based upon the idea of a physical contrariety endowed with two extremes and a wide central area where the opposite forces reach different equilibrium points (i.e., the so-called mixtures) or can be present to the fullest degree (in this case we do not have a mixture, but an element). Differently from previous scholarship which attributes this notion specifically to Aristotle, we have found, in a text which Aristotle seems to have been acquainted with, the Hippocratic De victu, an incipient structure of a contrariety endowed with extremes and a central area where opposite forces meet and yield respective equilibrium points, mixtures, which, as in Aristotle, give an account of the variety of beings existing in the world. In this article, we suggest the possibility that in the development of the Aristotelian thinking about elemental and qualitative dynamics, the Hippocratic De victu may have contributed to suggesting to Aristotle a way of envisioning the structure of his basic physical contrarieties.

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Aristotle's Conception of Chemical Combination

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Movements, Memory, and Mixture: Aristotle, Confusion, and the Historicity of Memory

Movements, Memory, and Mixture: Aristotle, Confusion, and the Historicity of Memory

A Cultural History Of Chemistry

Aristotle’s Mixture in its Medical and Philosophical Background: The Hippocratic De victu and the Aristotelian De generatione et corruptione

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