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Colloquium | Sep 28, 2017 | 17:00 to 19:00
Spirits Coming Alive: The Subtle Alchemy of Francis Bacon’s Sylva Sylvarum
MoreFlying Chariots and Exotic Birds: How Seventeeth Century Dreamers Planned to Reach the Moon
No 6
We’ve only traveled into space in the last century, but humanity’s desire to reach the moon is far from recent. In the second century AD, Lucian’s True History, a parody of travel tales, already pictured a group of adventure seekers lifted to the moon. A whirlwind delivered them into the turbulence of lunar politics—a colonial war.
Maria Avxentevskaya
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Flying Chariots and Exotic Birds: How Seventeeth Century Dreamers Planned to Reach the Moon
No 6
People have been dreaming about space travel for hundreds of years, long before the arrival of the spectacular technologies behind space exploration today—mighty engines roaring fire and thunder, shiny metal shapes gliding in the vastness of the universe.
Maria Avxentevskaya
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Naturwissenschaftliche Rundschau über die epochale Erfindung der Ammoniaksynthese.
Zum ArtikelJürgen Renn, Benjamin Johnson, and Benjamin Steininger on ammonia synthesiss
Read ArticleJürgen Renn, Robert Schlögl, Christoph Rosol und Benjamin Steininger zu Energie und sozialem Wandel
Zum ArtikelJürgen Renn, Robert Schlögl, Christoph Rosol, and Benjamin Steininger on energy and societal change
Read ArticleGastwissenschaftler Horst Kant wird zitiert zu Anfängen des Atomzeitalters
Zum ArtikelVisiting Scholar Horst Kant quoted in article on the beginning of the Atomic Age
Read ArticleChemical Desires (1850–1929): Making the Architectural Materials of Modernity
A momentous change occurred within architecture after 1850: the chemicalization of modern building materials. This transformation emerged within nasce
Funding Institution, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Cambridge, MA)