New Research on the Origin of Mosaic Gold.

IF 0.3 3区 哲学 Q3 HISTORY & PHILOSOPHY OF SCIENCE Ambix Pub Date : 2024-10-29 DOI:10.1080/00026980.2024.2419309
Rafael Marqués García
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This article examines the origins of the golden pigment known as mosaic gold (SnS2), formed through the sublimation of tin with mercury, sulphur, and ammonium chloride. It explores the textual transmission of mosaic gold from the earliest known written testimonies, as well as the earliest material remnants of the pigment during the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries. Additionally, the study introduces and analyses two new recipes from an earlier date: one comes from the Greek treatise known as the Anonymous of Zuretti; and the other from the Latin alchemical work attributed to pseudo-Avicenna, De anima. The analysis of these new recipes allows for a better understanding of the origin of the pigment and its connection with the medieval alchemical tradition inherited from the Arabic world. Based on these testimonies, the study proposes a new hypothesis about the origin, development, and etymology of mosaic gold.

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关于马赛克金起源的新研究。
本文探讨了马赛克金(SnS2)这种金色颜料的起源,这种颜料是锡与汞、硫和氯化铵升华形成的。文章探讨了马赛克金在已知最早的文字考证中的文字传承,以及 13 和 14 世纪该颜料最早的物质残留。此外,该研究还介绍并分析了两个较早的新配方:一个来自被称为《祖雷蒂无名氏》的希腊论文,另一个来自伪阿维森纳的拉丁炼金术著作《De anima》。通过对这些新配方的分析,可以更好地了解颜料的起源及其与中世纪从阿拉伯世界继承下来的炼金术传统之间的联系。基于这些证据,本研究对马赛克金的起源、发展和词源提出了新的假设。
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Ambix HISTORY & PHILOSOPHY OF SCIENCE-
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42
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3 months
期刊介绍: Ambix is an internationally recognised, peer-reviewed quarterly journal devoted to publishing high-quality, original research and book reviews in the intellectual, social and cultural history of alchemy and chemistry. It publishes studies, discussions, and primary sources relevant to the historical experience of all areas related to alchemy and chemistry covering all periods (ancient to modern) and geographical regions. Ambix publishes individual papers, focused thematic sections and larger special issues (either single or double and usually guest-edited). Topics covered by Ambix include, but are not limited to, interactions between alchemy and chemistry and other disciplines; chemical medicine and pharmacy; molecular sciences; practices allied to material, instrumental, institutional and visual cultures; environmental chemistry; the chemical industry; the appearance of alchemy and chemistry within popular culture; biographical and historiographical studies; and the study of issues related to gender, race, and colonial experience within the context of chemistry.
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