The Metaphysical Store - Chemistry & the Enlightenment

Chemistry and the Enlightenment

Publisher: Blackstone Audio Inc
Author: Dr. Ian Jackson
Narrator: Edwin Newman
Length: 2 hours 30 minutes (Unabridged)
Download Price: $9.95
Format: Encoded Windows Media
© 2006 Blackstone Audio Inc

In the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, scientists went beyond Aristotle's four elements (Earth, Wind, Fire, and Water) to catalogue nature's many basic elements. New materials and potions stimulated visions of wealth and healing; soon, new theories of atomic structure and combustion laid the foundation for practical applications that blossomed into the Industrial Revolution.

The Science and Discovery series recreates one of history's most successful journeys four thousand years of scientific efforts to better understand and control the physical world. Science has often challenged and upset conventional wisdom or accepted practices; this is a story of vested interests and independent thinkers, experiments and theories, change and progress. Aristotle, Copernicus, Kepler, Galileo, Newton, Darwin, Einstein, and many others are featured.

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"The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and all science. He to whom this emotion is a stranger, who can no longer pause to wonder and stand rapt in awe, is as good as dead: his eyes are closed."
-- Albert Einstein

"Come forth into the Light of things. Let Nature be your teacher."
-- William Wordsworth

"This is my simple religion. There is no need for temples, no need for complicated philosophy. Our own brain and our heart is our temple. The philosophy is kindness."
-- Dalai Lama

"There is only one good...knowledge. There is only one evil... ignorance."
-- The Death of Socrates

"The greatest virtues are those which are most useful to other persons."
-- Aristotle

"If we only do what is required of us, we are slaves. The moment we do more, we are free."
-- Cicero

"Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind."
-- Albert Einstein

"If any man wish to write in a clear style let him be first clear in his thought and if any would write in a noble style let him first posess a noble soul."
-- Goethe

I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with sense, reason, and intellect has intended us to forgo their use.
--Galileo Galilei