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由于哈勃太空望远镜在1995年拍摄出这张名为“创造之柱”图片，使天鹰星云成为宇宙中最为著名的星云之一。图片向人们展现了恒星诞生的云团，“创造之
柱”中包含大量致密的称为“蒸发中的气体球”的星际气体，正是恒星诞生之处。
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Attempting a paperback book cover in the style of the Edgar Rice Burroughs "John Carter of Mars" books.
Towards the end of an excellent presentation at the Aether Salon by Admiral Wildstar Beaumont on pirates & privateers and their effect on the American Revolution.
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Aether Chrononauts Tiny Steps hosted a celebration to welcome the vernal equinox, complete with a spring rain shower. Thank you to all attendees, who made our event special!
Transmutation is the primary goal of alchemy, and in this plan
we are concerned with the process in its exoteric or chemical sense, i.e., the conversion of base metals into gold, rather than in its esoteric or medical-psychological sense, i.e., the search for prolonging life, conferring immortality on man, or integrating man's fragmented psyche. Today we scoffat the alchemists' attempts at transmutation, but we must realise that they plumbed the unknown with their intuitive as much as with their rational faculties. They did not feel our present-day need to prove hypotheses through rigid experimentation, but instead they made extensive use of analogies and correspondences.
Primitive man, as even today's primitive tribes and very young children, made little distinction between animate and inanimate matter, i.e., they believed in the doctrine of hylozoism — that 'all Nature is like man, alive and sensitive' (24, p. 12). Since many alchemists were miners and metallurgists who could apparently turn rock and sand into metals, they believed that they were actually transmuting rock into metal — sometimes dull lead, sometimes reddish copper, sometimes whitish silver, and sometimes even yellow gold. They believed that metals grew in the earth, changing colour as they ripened
where miners still leave seeds ofgold in the mine so that more gold will grow from them, As late as the 16th century, Calbus of Freiberg, a famous mining tentre, described the growth and weathering (Witlening) of metals, which were believed to be generated by the exhalations from their respective planets — gold (the Sun), silver (the Moon), iron (Mars), mercury (Mercury), tin (Jupiter), copper (Venus) and lead (Saturn) — and ripened through continued exhalations into gold — the 'perfect' metal (Figure 14). However, if the gold was not harvested like fruit at the proper time, further planetary influences would cause it to wither into a reddish earthy residue, thus accounting for the scarcity of gold (4, p. 72).
Similarly, Eirenaeus Philalethes, an alleged l6th-century alchemist, wrote
'All metallic seed is the seed of gold: for gold is the intention of nature with regard to all metals. If the base metals are not gold, it is only through some accidental hindrance: they are all potentially gold' (70).
According to the English alchemist Thomas Norton (24, pp. 174-182), author of the famous 'Ordinall of Alkimié (1477),
'Metals are generated in the Earth, for above ground they are subject to Rust; hence above ground is the Place of Corruption of Metals and of their gradual Destruction. The cause which we assign to this fact is that above ground they are not in their proper Element, and an un natu ral position is destructive to natural objects as we see, for instante, that Fishes die when they are taken out of the Water' (20, p. 69).
Norton concluded that since metals grow at particular places, exhausted minefields need only to be closed for a sufficient time for a new erop to be obtained from subsequent growth of the metal.
Even Sir Isaac Newton (1642-1727), one of the greatest scientific geniuses of all time, whom most laymen consider the epitome of the totally rational thinker, was intensely interested in alchemy and the 'vegetation' of metals (71). He believed that metals were the only part of the mineral kingdom that vegetated, while other minerals were formed mechanically (72). In keeping with the vegetation theory of metals, alchemists attempted to imitate the transmutation of metals that they believed was occurring within the earth, hence the alchemical saying, `Man must finish the work which Nature bas left incomplete'.
Because of their lack of knowledge of the composition of common substances alchemists viewed many ordinary chemical reactions as transmutations. As a case in point, the deposition of topper on iron metal placed in a solution of topper sulphate, a redox reaction known since the time of Pliny the Elder (AD. 23?-79) was assumed to be a transmutation of iron into copper until the late Renaissance (67b) because blue vitriol or bluestone (CuSO,,•5H2 O) was not known to contain copper (2). Similarly, other changes in nature, especially those involving changes in colour to which the alchemists attached a great significance, lend credence to the idea of transmutation. For example, the mineral galena (PbS), on heating, liberates sulphur dioxide and is transformed into lead. Since silver is often present as an impurity in galena, silver is sometimes obtained by this process. The art of 'colouring' metals or producing various gold-coloured alloys of base metals was well.
and easily accomplished from ancient times (73), and to many an unsophisticated mind, if a su bstance was the colour of gold, it was believed to be gold. Hopkins thought that the theory of transmutation, at least in its origin, was entirely due to misinterpretation of such colours (74). It is true that various tests for gold, e,g., colour, malleability, density ('weightiness' as in the familiar'Eureka' story ofArchimedes in the bathtub and the crown of Hieron I1, tyrant of Syracuse) and resistance to atmospheric oxidation on fusion ('trial by fire'), were common knowledge in the ancient world In his 'Moral Essays' ('On Providence', 5:9), Seneca the Younger (ca. 4 B.C.-A.D. 65), the leading intellectual figure of mid-ist-century Rome, wrote, 'Fire is the test of gold; adversity of strong men'. Furthermore, additional tests, e.g., the touchstone (well reviewed by Wlchli recently in this journal, Gold Bull., 1981,14,(4), 154-158), touch-needles, cupellation (resistance to the oxidizing power of litharge, PbO), cemen tation (resistance to the attack of acid fumes) and resistance to mineral acids ('wet-way' analysis, 'parting' from silver by aquafortis, HNO,), were available to medieval and Renaissance alchemists. Yet technical imperfections in these procedures, especially if only one test was applied, may have provided apparent confirmation of transmutation:
'The technical equipment of the alchemical period was capable of invalidating any serious claim for successful transmutation of base metals, but numerous factors, especially the applcation of mineral acids of uncertain composition, probably led to "augmentations" in which even experts could not detect the added constituent, or to inexplicable residues of gold which had been unwittingly introduced by the operator himself. Fraudulent dexterity, false philosophy, public credulity and Royal rapacity all played their due part in the perpetuation of the transmutation theory'.
To defend the future demands defense of the past. History linked through the present into the deep future. What form? What values? What cadence of life?
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Photographer: c'est moi
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Strobist Info - ABR800 into bounce umbrella camera right. AB1600 into bounce umbrella camera left. AB800 into PLM64 over subject.
Aether is an installation by Architecture Social Club for Lumiere London 2018 at King's Cross, London.
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"This year’s Winter Lights is a new work specially created for Canary Wharf by Aether & Hemera, a partnership of architect Claudio Benghi and lighting artist Gloria Ronchi.
Enlivening Middle Dock during the dark winter months, ‘Voyage’ consists of 300 floating “paper boats”, illuminated from within by coloured LED lights that come alive between around dusk and 2am putting on a spectacular light show. The installation is an interactive experience that people can engage with from their mobile phones."
this particular SPAM Gun is named Gus. Gus isn't 100% finished, but he's done enough to show him off a bit ^ _ ^
Mr B The Gentleman Rhymer, the inventor of Chap-hop, performs at Aether and Echo, Belfast, 7 June 2014.
Image (c) Robert JE Simpson 2014. All Rights Reserved.
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Aether Chrononauts Castle at Relay for Life by Cassie Eldemar, Eilidh McCullough, Princess Selena, OldeSoul Eldemar,Cierra Anatine and other team members
Visit this location at RFL - Aether Chrononauts Tiny Steps - REGION SPONSOR in Second Life