L’alchimie, science de la manipulation des influences spirituelles par une métallurgie sacrée, et la pataphysique, esthétique pseudo-scientifique associant l'ésotérisme à l'humour, sont les deux principaux fondements idéologiques qui unissent Marcel Duchamp et Roberto Matta. Tandis que Duchamp s'intéresse déjà à l'ésotérisme dès 1910, soit près d'une vingtaine d'années avant sa rencontre avec Matta. Ce dernier aborde, dans sa production, des thèmes propres à la littérature alchimique, soit les opérations occultes, les états merveilleux de la matière et les appareils de laboratoire. De plus, les écrivains symbolistes et pseudo-scientifiques, lus par Duchamp, puis par Matta, influencent l'humour pataphysique, teinté d'ésotérisme, qui s'exprime dans la production de ces deux artistes. Ainsi, Les Célibataires, vingt ans plus tard, est une huile sur toile, réalisée en 1943, par Roberto Matta, qui représente un paysage cosmique, composé d'astres et de trous noirs, de trois alambics et d'une grande machine noire. Dans cette œuvre, Matta réinterprète très librement certains éléments du Grand verre, une peinture sur verre de Marcel Duchamp, laissée inachevée en 1923. Le présent mémoire de maîtrise étudie l'influence de l'alchimie et de l'iconographie duchampienne sur Les Célibataires, vingt ans plus tard. Dans un premier temps, cette étude vise à mettre en exergue et à examiner les influences alchimiques et pataphysiques dans l'œuvre de Matta. Dans un deuxième temps, notre mémoire vise à démontrer comment l'œuvre de Matta s'intègre dans le projet surréaliste de création d'un mythe nouveau, dans la continuité du projet duchampien. / Alchemy, the science of handling spiritual influences through sacred metallurgy, and Pataphysics, a pseudo-scientific aesthetic combining Esotericism and humor, are the two main ideological foundations uniting Marcel Duchamp and Roberto Matta. On one hand, while Duchamp already has an interest for Esotericism in 1910, that is to say, about twenty years before his first encounter with Matta. On the other hand, Matta addresses, in his production, themes specific to alchemical literature, that is to say occult operations, marvelous states of matter and laboratory equipment. Also, symbolist and pseudo-scientific writers, read by Duchamp, and then by Matta, have an influence on the pataphysical humor, permeated by Esotericism, expressed in the production of both artists. Therefore, Les Célibataires, vingt ans plus tard, is an oil on canvas, elaborated in 1943, by Roberto Matta, representing a cosmic landscape, made of stars and black holes, of three alembics and of a large black machine. In this painting, Matta very freely reinterprets some elements from the Grand verre, a painting on glass by Marcel Duchamp, left unfinished in 1923. This master thesis examines the influence of Alchemy and of the iconography of Duchamp on Les Célibataires, vingt ans plus tard. In the first part, this study aims to highlight and to examine alchemical and pataphysical influences within the work of Matta. In the second part, our thesis aims to demonstrate how the work of Matta integrates in the Surrealist project of creating a new myth, in the continuity of the project of Marcel Duchamp.

This thesis deals with the research of humility from the view of its elusiveness - it does not define humility and it also does not even try to do so. Conversely, it walks around the phenomenon of humility and points at it in different ways. It uses examples, mostly from works of Comenius, and builds it with parallels from works of Jung, Foucault, Jünger, Drewermann and some other authors. It delimits humility against pride at example of different view of "epoché" in works of Comenius and Descartes; pride is basicly seen where human does not leave any unnaturalness and completely absorbs the world by his own opinion; work also uses Husserl's criticism of Descartes' view of "epoché" and Comenius' criticism of Machiavelli is also mentioned. Thence, the thesis sees the principle of humility in a close relation with the principle of faith or simply with the knowledge of the principle of some higher instance than the human's own sense is. The principle of humility is also nearby to the principle of grace - for this example the thesis researches Simone Weil's concept of "weight and grace"; grace from this point of view is an unpredictable step outside the performance-based part of human life. This thesis deals with mentioned phenomenons at first at the level of the visions of the world, later at the...

The dissertation begins with an introduction about Renaissance, because Thaddaeus Hagecius lived and worked in this age. Renaissance was both an age of faith in hermetic sciences and an age of important scientific discoveries which fundamentally influenced the transformation of cosmology. My intention is to explain the characteristics of this period in the beginning of the dissertation. The next chapter is mainly focused on Hagecius's biography and an overview of his main writings. At first, I dealt with Hagecius's youth and his studies in Bohemia and foreign countries. Afterwards, I mentioned the areas that Hagecius had developed and the writings that he had published about them. I have more thoroughly expanded Hagecius's activity in medicine and astronomy because they were the main areas of his research. In another part of the chapter, I have outlined the friendship between Hagecius and Brahe. I have closed the chapter with an explanation of Hagecius's reference to alchemy. In the third chapter of my dissertation, I have introduced Hagecius's scientific efforts in four areas. These are as follow-astronomy, medicine, botany and brewing, because Hagecius contributed to these four areas with an interesting manner. These areas also show the huge diversity of Hagecius's interests.

Made available in DSpace on 2016-04-28T14:16:17Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Reno Stagni.pdf: 17589339 bytes, checksum: db482e5e34a0e806a35d91addaec3478 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2013-06-07 / Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior / This paper Will present the scientific facts discussed in the book Conversations on the Plurality of Worlds, written by Bernard Le Boyer de Fontenelle, in 1686, which had a great impact on many issues. To narrate the scientific facts of the time, Fontenelle deals, the book first published in 1686, the form of dialogues between supposedly caught him and a marquese on their evening walks around the castle gardens in the Summer. Both talk about the design of astronomical systems from Ptolomy and Copernicus. The Moon, the planets and the possibility of existence of other worlds like our own, are also discussed during the meetings. Narratives built using a communications strategies and arguments in order to facilitate understanding of abstract and complex astronomical phenomena by means of analogies. With the book, takes part in iniciatives to popularize science, in order to inform and entertain people without impose theories, staying somewhat on the fringes of science academies. In this paper we present the ideas of science contained in the book, trying to recognize, at the same time, the similarities and differences of those groups conveyed by scholars / Este trabalho apresentará os fatos científicos discutidos no livro Diálogos sobre a Pluralidade dos Mundos, escrito por Bernard Le Boyer de Fontenelle, em 1686, que teve grande repercussão com grande número de edições. Para narrar os fatos científicos da época, Fontenelle adota a forma de diálogos supostamente travados entre ele e uma marquesa em seus passeios noturnos pelos jardins do castelo, no verão. Os dois conversam sobre a concepção dos sistemas astronômicos de Ptolomeu e Copérnico. A Lua, os planetas e a possibilidade de existência de outros mundos semelhantes ao nosso, também são tratados durante os encontros. Fontenelle construiu narrativas utilizando estratégias de comunicação e argumentação, de modo a facilitar a compreensão dos fenômenos astronômicos abstratos e complexos por meio de analogias, Com o livro, toma parte de iniciativas em divulgar a ciência, com o intuito de informar e entreter as pessoas, sem impor teorias, mantendo-se, de certa forma, à margem da ciência das academias. Neste trabalho vamos apresentar as ideias de ciência contidas no livro, buscando reconhecer, ao mesmo tempo, as aproximações e distanciamentos daquelas veiculadas pelos grupos eruditos

[pt] Este trabalho tem como objetivo analisar a forma pela qual o simbolismo alquímico é reinterpretado à luz da teoria junguiana. Para tal, passa em revista alguns dos conceitos que permitem esta aproximação, dentre eles, a noção de símbolo, o mecanismo de projeção e a técnica de amplificação. Através da sua articulação, o autor visa corroborar a hipótese do inconsciente coletivo. / [en] This dissertation describes the way in which the alchemical symbolism is reinterpreted in the light of the Junguian theory. For this purpose, some of the concepts which allow this relation are then revised, that is, the notion of symbol, the mechanism of projection and the technique of amplification. Through their articulation, Jung intends to confirm the hypothesis of the collective unconscious.

Submitted by Marlene Aparecida de Souza Cardozo (mcardozo@pucsp.br) on 2018-03-09T13:04:38Z No. of bitstreams: 1 Diogo de Lima e Calazans.pdf: 646870 bytes, checksum: 94fdc3a9ffcfa2825e6499dcd9e5d1bb (MD5) / Made available in DSpace on 2018-03-09T13:04:38Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Diogo de Lima e Calazans.pdf: 646870 bytes, checksum: 94fdc3a9ffcfa2825e6499dcd9e5d1bb (MD5) Previous issue date: 2017-09-06 / Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior - CAPES / This research was developed under the scope of History of Science, starting from the hypothesis that Gerhard Dorn's (153/35 - 1584) work has played an important role in the validation of key concepts of Carl Gustav Jung's (1875 - 1961) understanding of alchemy. Although Jung's publications contain references to a great number of authors who wrote about the subject, some of them ended up becoming the main characters used by Jung to voice his psychological understanding of alchemy, as well as in the connections found between lab work and Analytical Psychology. Dorn's studies, The Speculative Philosophy and The Meditative Philosophy in special, were of great relevance when Jung defended his thesis about the role of the unconscious process during the alchemical opus. Moreover, the alchemist work became important for Jung's analysis concerning the process of matter transformation – stating that it would actually be the projection of an inner psychological development. Regarding Jung's last work on alchemy, the beliefs found in Dorn's treaty were then used to add the final alchemical shape to one of his most important concepts: the individuation process. With this goal in mind, we approached alchemy at the end of the 19th century and beginning of the 20th as the starting point for this paper, contextualizing Jung's understanding and analyzing the methodology he used in his own studies. Part of this paper is also dedicated to a brief analysis of Gerhard Dorn's work by using the work of some historians of science as our reference. We also sought after themes within Jung's publications in which the alchemist would have used as a way to ground his Jungian hypothesis, in special the importance Jung gives him by claiming Dorn to be one of the first to study the process of individuation. At last, the final chapter is dedicated to the analysis of how Dorn's ideas worked in the constitution of this final concept / A presente pesquisa foi desenvolvida no âmbito da História da Ciência, a partir da hipótese que a obra de Gerhard Dorn (1530/35-1584) teria desempenhado importante papel na fundamentação de conceitos centrais sobre a interpretação de Carl Gustav Jung (1875-1961) da alquimia. Embora nas publicações de Jung encontremos referência ao trabalho de inúmeros autores que trataram da alquimia, alguns deles acabaram por figurar como personagens principais, sendo utilizados por Jung para dar voz a sua interpretação psicológica da alquimia, assim como nas relações que acabou por estabelecer entre o trabalho de laboratório e a psicologia analítica. Os estudos de Dorn, em especial os tratados A Filosofia Especulativa e A Meditativa Filosofia foram de grande relevância na defesa de Jung de suas teses sobre o papel dos processos inconscientes durante o opus alquímico. Em especial, a obra do alquimista tornou-se importante para a análise de Jung de que o processo de transformação da matéria seria, na verdade, a projeção de um desenvolvimento psicológico interior. Ainda, na última obra de Jung sobre a alquimia, noções contidas nos tratados de Dorn foram então utilizadas para dar os contornos alquímicos finais a um de seus mais importantes conceitos, o processo de individuação. Partindo deste objetivo iniciamos este estudo a partir dos debates sobre a alquimia no final do século XIX e inicio do século XX, situando a interpretação junguiana dentro deste contexto e analisando a metodologia aplicada por Jung em seus estudos. Também dedicamos parte deste trabalho a uma breve análise sobre a obra de Gerhard Dorn, tendo como referencial o trabalho de historiadores da ciência. Ainda, buscamos nas publicações de Jung os temas, nos quais, o alquimista teria sido utilizado como forma de fundamentação das hipóteses junguianas, destacando o papel que Jung lhe atribui como um dos precursores nos estudos sobre o processo de individuação. Por fim, dedicamos o último capítulo a uma análise sobre a aplicação de Jung das ideias de Dorn na formulação final deste conceito

This thesis presents a single witness edition of The Knowing of Woman’s Kind in Childing, which is a 14th century vernacular obstetrical and gynaecological treatise found in British Library MS Additional 12195. Purported to be emulating medical texts of French and Latin origin, The Knowing of Woman's Kind in Childing is “a novel fusing of several different texts and theoretical traditions into a single work” (Green, “Obstetrical” 64). The Knowing of Woman’s Kind in Childing is an important and significant medieval medical text because it has a self-identified female audience and a female-orientated medical focus. Accompanying notes and emendations from the four other extant witnesses are also presented: Oxford Bodley MS Douce 37 (SC 21611), Oxford MS Bodley 483 (SC 2062), Cambridge University Library MS Ii. 6. 33, and British Library MS Sloane 421A. This thesis explores the folklore of the traditional herbs, medicinals, and compounds used in the treatise. A comparison of the material appended to all five of the extant witnesses is presented in Appendix A; Appendix B lists the incidence of rubrication found in this edition; originating source material for the Knowing of Woman’s Kind in Childing is presented in Appendix C; and an alphabetical catalogue of medicinals, in four tables, can be found in Appendix D.

ABSTRACT VANADIUM AND MOLYBDENUM INCORPORATED MCM-41 CATALYSTS FOR SELECTIVE OXIDATION OF ETHANOL G&uuml / &ccedil / bilmez, YeSim Ph.D., Department of Chemical Engineering Supervisor : Prof. Dr. Timur Dogu Co-Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Suna Balci June 2005, 144 pages In this study, V-MCM-41, MCM-41 and Mo-MCM-41 catalysts were synthesized by the one-pot alkaline and acidic synthesis methods. The as-synthesized catalysts were found to have high BET surface areas (430-1450 m2/g), homogeneous pore size distributions (2-4 nm), good crystalline patterns and high metal loading levels (Metal/Si atomic ratio in the solid = 0.01-0.16) as determined by the characterization studies. MCM-41 and Mo-MCM-41 catalysts were highly active in the selective oxidation of ethanol with conversion levels of 56% and 71%, respectively, at 400oC for an O2/EtOH feed ratio of 0.5. Both catalysts had very high selectivities to acetaldehyde at temperatures below 300oC. Conversions exceeded 95% with the V-MCM-41 catalyst having a V/Si molar ratio (in the solid) of 0.04 in the temperature range of 300oC-375oC for the O2/EtOH feed ratios of 0.5-2.0. Acetaldehyde selectivities changed between 0.82-1.00 at the temperature range of 150oC-250oC. Ethylene, which is listed as a minor side product of the selective oxidation of ethanol in literature, was produced with a maximum yield of 0.66 at 400oC at the O2/EtOH feed ratio of 0.5. This yield is higher than the yields obtained in the industrial ethylene production methods such as thermal cracking and oxidative dehydrogenation of ethane. Besides, the feedstock used in this work is a non-petroleum chemical, namely ethanol, which can be produced from sugar and crop wastes by fermentation. Thus, the findings of this study are also proposed as an alternative ethylene production method from a non-petroleum reactant at lower temperatures with higher yields. &Ouml / Z ETANOL&Uuml / N SE&Ccedil / iCi OKSiDASYONUNDA KULLANILMAK &Uuml / ZERE VANADYUM VE MOLiBDEN i&Ccedil / EREN MCM-41 KATALiZ&Ouml / RLERiNiN &Uuml / RETiMi G&uuml / &ccedil / bilmez, YeSim Doktora, Kimya M&uuml / hendisligi B&ouml / l&uuml / m&uuml / Tez Y&ouml / neticisi : Prof. Dr. Timur Dogu Ortak Tez Y&ouml / neticisi: Prof. Dr. Suna Balci Haziran 2005, 144 sayfa Bu &ccedil / aliSma kapsaminda, dogrudan sentez metoduyla, alkali ve asit ortamlarinda, V-MCM-41, MCM-41 ve Mo-MCM-41 kataliz&ouml / rleri sentezlenmiStir. Bu Sekilde sentezlenen kataliz&ouml / rlerin y&uuml / ksek BET y&uuml / zey alanlarina (430-1450 m2/g), homojen g&ouml / zenek boyutu dagilimlarina (2-4 nm), iyi kristal yapilarina ve y&uuml / ksek metal y&uuml / kleme oranlarina (Metal/Si katidaki molar orani =0.01-0.16) sahip olduklari karakterizasyon &ccedil / aliSmalari sonucunda g&ouml / r&uuml / lm&uuml / St&uuml / r. MCM-41 ve Mo-MCM-41 kataliz&ouml / rleri etanol&uuml / n se&ccedil / ici oksidasyonunda, 400oC&amp / #8217 / de ve reakt&ouml / r giriSinde 0.5&amp / #8217 / lik O2/EtOH oraninda, sirasiyla, 56% ve 71% d&ouml / n&uuml / S&uuml / m seviyeleriyle, y&uuml / ksek aktivite g&ouml / stermiSlerdir. Her iki kataliz&ouml / r de 300oC&amp / #8217 / nin altinda &ccedil / ok y&uuml / ksek asetaldehit se&ccedil / iciligi g&ouml / stermiStir. D&ouml / n&uuml / S&uuml / m degerleri, V/Si katidaki molar orani 0.04 olan V-MCM-41 kataliz&ouml / r&uuml / i&ccedil / in / 300oC-375oC araliginda ve 0.5-0.2 O2/EtOH reakt&ouml / r giriSi oranlarinda, 95%&amp / #8217 / i ge&ccedil / miStir. Asetaldehit se&ccedil / icilikleri, 150oC-250oC araliginda, 0.82-1.00 arasinda degiSmiStir. Literat&uuml / rde, etil alkol&uuml / n se&ccedil / ici oksidasyonunda &ouml / nemsiz bir yan &uuml / r&uuml / n olarak s&ouml / z&uuml / ge&ccedil / en etilen, 400oC&amp / #8217 / de ve 0.5&amp / #8217 / lik O2/EtOH reakt&ouml / r giriS oraninda 0.66 maksimum verimle &uuml / retilmiStir. Bu verim degeri isil par&ccedil / alanma ve etanin kismi oksidasyonu gibi end&uuml / striyel etilen &uuml / retim yollariyla elde edilen verimlerden daha y&uuml / ksektir. Ayrica, bu &ccedil / aliSmada kullanilan etanol petrol-bazli olmayan bir hammaddedir ve Seker pancari atiklarindan fermentasyonla &uuml / retilebilmektedir. Bu sebeple, bu &ccedil / aliSmadaki bulgular, petrol-bazli olmayan bir hammaddeden, daha d&uuml / S&uuml / k sicaklikta, daha y&uuml / ksek verimle etilen elde etmek i&ccedil / in alternatif bir &uuml / retim metodu olarak da &ouml / nerilmiStir. Anahtar Kelimeler: Etilen, Etil alkol, Se&ccedil / ici Oksidasyon, MCM-41, V-MCM-41, Mo-MCM-41, Oksidatif Dihidrojenasyon, Kismi Oksidasyon

Thesis (MA (Visual Studies))--University of Pretoria, 2008. / Includes bibliographical references.

Thesis--Université de Paris I. / Published in 1979 under title: La pensée alchimique et le Conte du Graal. Includes index. Bibliography: p. 625-639.