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Oct 31, 2022 · When, in short, did the pursuit of alchemy end? This ending was a major development in the history of chemistry, but it’s hard to pin down. Principe concentrates on the Académie Royale des Sciences in the eighteenth century: members pursued transmutation even as administrators tried to suppress it.
Dec 28, 2022 · On Dec. 28 the press office of the Holy See announced that Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI’s condition had taken a turn for the worse and that he was receiving medical care at his residence at the...
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Jan 30, 2013 · The book surveys the history of alchemy from its origins in late antiquity to the present day. It focuses on a few representative characters and ideas from each of alchemy’s several historical epochs in the West—the Greco-Egyptian, the Arabic, the Latin medieval, the early modern, and the modern.
Nov 6, 2006 · The influence of scientists in shaping public opinion on the basis of their knowledge is too important to be undermined by undue haste or the pursuit of superficial publicity. As my predecessor, Pope John Paul II, once observed: “Scientists, precisely because they ‘know more’, are called to ‘serve more’.
Pope Benedict XVI (Latin: Benedictus PP. XVI; Italian: Benedetto XVI; German: Benedikt XVI; born Joseph Alois Ratzinger, German: [ˈjoːzɛf ˈʔaːlɔɪ̯s ˈʁat͡sɪŋɐ]; 16 April 1927 – 31 December 2022) was head of the Catholic Church and sovereign of the Vatican City State from 19 April 2005 until his resignation on 28 February 2013.
Jan 4, 2023 · In his 2007 World Day of Peace message, Benedict raised the urgency around environmental destruction, warning that the race for energy resources risked destroying ecosystems, leaving...
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Jan 6, 2023 · Close to a decade after Pope Benedict XVI announced his abdication from the Chair of Peter, shocking a gathering of the College of Cardinals into silence and even tears, the Catholic Church...
