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Jonson: ‘Volpone’ And ‘The Alchemist’ (198 Audio)

Subject
Drama

Distribution
Sale, Audiocassette. 50 min.

Sir William Empson, University of Sheffield, discusses the two plays by Ben Jonson.
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Modern Alchemist, The: Earth, The Philosopher’s Stone (2012)

Subject
Chemistry; Geology

Royal Institution Christmas Lecture given by Peter Wothers on the subject of the rocks that form the planet Earth. Wothers takes as his starting point the beliefs and suppositions of the medieval alchemists...
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Joseph Wright of Derby: Images of Science (1987 Video)

Producer
Peter Walton

Distribution
OUT OF DISTRIBUTION, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 25 min.

Looks in detail at two paintings by Joseph Wright of Derby: ‘A Lecture on the Orrery’ and ‘The Alchemist’. By an analysis of the content of these works, amd a summary of the art-historical traditions...
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Al-Ghazali - The Alchemist of Happiness (2011)

Director
Ovidio Salazar

Producer
Ovidio Salazar

Subject
Philosophy; Religious studies

Distribution
Sale, DVD (Region 0 PAL, 80 minutes), £19.95

Born in 1058 in Tus, Khorasan, in present-day Iran, Abu Hamid al-Ghazali was one of the most original thinkers the world has known. Besides being a major influence in the Muslim world, the West has also felt...
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Nova: Absolute Zero (2008)

Director
David Dugan

Subject
Chemistry

Distribution
Sale, DVD (Region 1 NTSC, 112 minutes), $24.95

The epic story of humanity’s struggle to master extreme cold. This Nova special recreates groundbreaking discoveries across four centuries that expanded our knowledge of low temperatures and led ultimately...
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Dreams That Money Can Buy (1946 Video)

Director
Hans Richter

Subject
Art; Media studies

Distribution
Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 80 minutes), £19.99

Painter, film theorist and film-maker Hans Richter, one of the most influential members of the cinematic avant-garde, assembled some of the century’s liveliest artists as co-creators for this film,...
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