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Society's influence on chemistry
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The book Napoleon’s buttons was an informative story that mixed slow and confusing chemistry with history. This mix allowed a history buff like me to get involved with the chemical make up and structure of common elements. Penny Le Couteur and Jay Burreson used this book to explain their theories on how key historical events are related to the chemical make up of important elements. In essay after essay they explain the history and events. In addition, they go further in depth to explain the details of particular elements and why they are important. The historical aspects of this book are what grabbed my attention. The long string of facts otherwise would have been too confusing for even the smartest of readers.
For example, the first essay entitled “Peppers, Nutmeg, and Cloves” focuses on how everyday spices have lead to important breakthroughs over a period of history. According to the authors these spices lead to the discovery of America, the rise of Venice, and even spared thousands from the bubonic plague. Pepper took the naturally bland diets of northern Europeans and added culture and style to their food. Like silk impacted trade, the demand for these simple spices skyrocketed as supply remained the same. Sadly pepper farms were few and far between and needed an extremely unique environment to grow. This forced nations looking to monopolize the spice trade to search elsewhere for their cash crop. This is where Christopher Columbus comes into play. He promised a new supply of pepper from Asia and claimed he could access that supply by sailing across the Atlantic. His voyage in search of these elusive spices ended with his landing in America and the discovery of the new world. The book goes even father into depth and descr...
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...nd women were accused of witchcraft during this 200 year period; all of which were killed for their unique talents. As expected, chemistry took a massive step in the wrong direction with few left to carry on the cherished art. Ideas and thoughts were lost, and chemists were once again forced to start from scratch.
In conclusion, I have to add that all in all, I enjoyed what I read. It gave me an in- depth look at the way very specific elements have affected how the world got to where it is today. I also learned that chemistry and science have had a much greater effect on my life than I previously imagined. Without this look into our chemical pas, I may have never understood its important role. This was an entertaining and well written story and I recommend this book completely because of its ability to get advanced information across in a simple and effective way.
During that time period, Christopher Columbus claimed to have made an amazing discovery. Columbus’s letter in Document D states, “I came to the Indian Ocean, where I found many islands inhabited by men without number.” (CM#1) At the time, Columbus’s discovery was big news and made a huge difference, because people always believed that the world was flat. His letter was mass produced by the printing press and distributed all through Europe, in multiple different languages. When people read Columbus’s letter, it gave them motivation and encouragement to explore more places and discover the world. As a result, today, we know many places in the world that weren’t known before, such as North America and South America. (Closing) This shows the importance of the Age of Exploration, which was a critical and positive consequence of the printing press. (Topic Sentence #2) Another example of how the printing press supported the Age of Exploration in a helpful way was the production of
What could one man do to change the world we never knew? Columbus’ explorations gave us many opportunities. He introduced new products such as tomatoes and cotton which we still eat and use today. H...
Witchcraft had always fascinated many people and been a very controversial topic in North America during (seventeenth) 17th century. Many People believe that witchcraft implies the ability to injure or using supernatural power to harm others. People believed that a witch represents dark side of female present and were more likely to embrace witchcraft than men. There are still real witches among us in the Utah whom believe that witchcraft is the oldest religion dealing with the occult. However the popular conception of a witch has not changed at least since the seventeenth century; they still caused panic, fear and variety of other emotions in people…………………….
... see things more rationally led to a mechanical philosophy which contradicted the major concepts concerning witchcraft. It is therefore inevitable that the developments throughout the period led to a decline in witchcraft as they largely focused on increasing awareness throughout society and thus leading to wide spread questioning about magic and witchcraft. This questioning created a situation in which witchcraft prosecutions were much rarer and took much longer to reach. Finally, therefore the changes in attitudes across the period were the most important consequence of the factors described and led to the decline in witchcraft prosecutions.
Spanos, Nicholas P.. "Witchcraft and social history: An essay review." Journal of the History of the Behavioral Sciences 21: 60-67. Print.
Christopher Columbus is profoundly known to be the key asset to advance European culture across seas. The Columbian Exchange, colonization, and the growth of slave usage throughout the usage of the Triangular Trade, all conveyed foreign practices to the American Continent while also interrupting, but at the same time joining with the lifestyles of the inhabitants of these lands. A mixture of processes and voyagers transformed America into a “new world”, catching the world by surprise. America would not have developed to the period in existence today, if it was not for this growing period of the “old” and “new” worlds. A global world is in continuation through today as nations continue to share cultural
It should no longer come as any great surprise that Columbus was not the first to discover the Americas--Carthaginians, Vikings, and even St. Brendan may have set foot on the Western Hemisphere long before Columbus crossed the Atlantic. But none of these incidental contacts made the impact that Columbus did. Columbus and company were bound to bring more than the benefits of Christianity and double entry bookkeeping to America. His voyages started the Columbian Exchange, a hemispherical swap of peoples, plants, animals and diseases that transformed not only the world he had discovered but also the one he had left.
1 Nachman Ben-Yehuda The European Witch Craze of the 14th to 17th Centuries: A Sociologist’s Perspective. The University of Chicago, 1980. 15. 2 Levack! 123.3 Levack 164.
During the early modern period Europe experienced a phase of vicious prosecution of the people accused of the crime of ‘Witchcraft.’ There has been an estimated death toll of up to 50,000 people during these Witch-hunt crazes, although the exact figures are unknown. What is known is that overall 75-80% of those accused were woman although this varies in different states. In this essay I will discuss the role of gender in witchcraft and why the majority of people executed as Witches were women.
This book was a good read for me, but I also read book reviews to help me keep track on what I am reading. These book reviews just made a better understanding of what I was reading.
This chemistry book report is focus on a book called “Napoleon's buttons: How 17 molecules changed history” by Penny Le Couteur and Jay Burreson. The publisher of this book is Tarcher Putnam, the book was published in Canada on 2003 with 17 chapters (hey the number match the title of the book!) and a total of 378 pages. The genre of this book is nonfiction. “Napoleon's Buttons” contain a fascinating story of seventeen groups of molecules that have greatly changed the course of history and continuing affect the world we live in today. It also reveal the astonishing chemical connection among some unrelated events, for example: Chemistry caused New Amsterdamers to be renamed New Yorkers and one little accident of detonating cotton apron in a minor housekeeping mishap lead to the development of modern explosives and the founding of the movie industry.
Sidky, H. Witchcraft, lycanthropy, drugs, and disease: an anthropological study of the European witch-hunts. New York: Peter Lang Publishing Inc., 1997.
Columbus travels brought a tragic history of Native Americans, thousands of people were killed by the disease from the encounter. Native American homes were destroyed under Europeans control. Despite all the negativity of Columbus’ journey, advantages also appeared. For example, Columbus made communication and trade possible between Europe and the Americas. He brought tomatoes, chocolate, potatoes, corn, green beans, peanuts, vanilla, pineapple, and turkey to Europe which had transformed the European diet. In return, he introduced sugar, cattle, pigs, glovers, gingers, cardamom and almonds to the Indians. Columbus’ journey had complete transformed Native American lives in some good ways but however, it had left a tragic imprint in Native American
When we think of Napoleon, we think of massive military conquest comparable to the Roman Empire. However, there are also the numerous reforms he made to domestic policy during his reign of 1799 to 1815. There are three main viewpoints relating to his domestic policy. The first is by Godechot who believed Napoleon "changed the history of France and the world". He thought that Napoleon's policies truly benefited France. However, a contrary viewpoint is made by Seward who thought Napoleon was a demagogue who had an "obsession with power". A third median of the two extremes was proposed by Soboul. Soboul thought that Napoleon advantaged France in some ways but hindered in others.