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Vol 2 No 1 (2018)

The cover image for this issue is Winter Tree, a woodcut by Charles Beck (1923-2017). We are sincerely grateful to Charles’ family who gave us the permission to reproduce an extraordinary work of art, illustrating the creativity of an artist entrusted to matter... READ MORE

Published: 2018-03-29

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Editorial

Why Chemists Need Philosophy, History, and Ethics

Joachim Schummer

5-6
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Feature Articles

Emulsion Thermodynamics – In from the Cold

Stig E. Friberg

7-16
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Finding Na,K-ATPase: I - From Cell to Molecule

Hans-Jürgen Apell

17-28
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Mechanistic Trends in Chemistry

Louis Caruana SJ

29-40
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Research Articles

Cognition and Reality

F. Tito Arecchi

41-50
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A Correspondence Principle

Barry D. Hughes, Barry W. Ninham

51-76
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From idea to acoustics and back again: the creation and analysis of information in music

Joe Wolfe

77-91
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Historical Articles

Snapshots of chemical practices in Ancient Egypt

Jehane Ragai

93-101
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The “Bitul B’shishim (one part in sixty)”: is a Jewish conditional prohibition of the Talmud the oldest-known testimony of quantitative analytical chemistry?

Federico Maria Rubino

103-119
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Michael Faraday: a virtuous life dedicated to science

Franco Bagnoli, Roberto Livi

121-134
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Substantia. An International Journal of the History of Chemistry

Substantia is an open access peer-reviewed academic international journal dedicated to traditional perspectives as well as innovative and synergetic implications of history and philosophy of Chemistry. It is meant to be a crucible for discussions on science, on making science and its outcomes. Substantia hosts discussions on the connections between chemistry and other horizons of human activities, and on the historical aspects of chemistry.