https://johnstewart.me/tags/history-of-science/Recent content in History of Science on John StewartHugoen-usWed, 14 Oct 2020 20:34:36 -0500https://johnstewart.me/history/chemistry-and-slavery-in-the-scottish-enlightenment/Wed, 27 May 2020 12:40:27 -0500https://johnstewart.me/history/chemistry-and-slavery-in-the-scottish-enlightenment/Scottish people don’t figure prominently in most histories of slave trade. When Scots are mentioned, people usually point to the writings of Adam Smith andhttps://johnstewart.me/personal/open-letter-to-sen-jim-inhofe/Fri, 02 Jun 2017 22:03:50 -0500https://johnstewart.me/personal/open-letter-to-sen-jim-inhofe/I have been using the Resist Bot to write faxes to my congressional representatives every time I’m outraged by something congress or the White House does - sohttps://johnstewart.me/history/a-brief-history-of-alchemy/Wed, 01 Feb 2017 10:33:18 -0600https://johnstewart.me/history/a-brief-history-of-alchemy/Alchemy, as a field of study, was thought to answer several different questions making it hard to define. Alchemy was used to study ontology; that is,