Sentences with phrase «alchemist in»

The best, I'm informed, are made in Turkey and likely by the venerable cymbal maker Zildjian, which has been making especially resonant cymbals ever since one Avedis, an Armenian alchemist in Constantinople, devised a particular mix of copper, tin, and traces of silver — a form of bronze — in the year 1618.

The term «just one more quest» is something you'll be saying to yourself throughout, as you can easily sink 30 + hours as a bubbly alchemist in training: princess Meruru.

«The Alchemist in the Attic is a historical mystery with occult and dark science undertones.

When Paulo Coelho first wrote the Alchemist in 1999 the book was failing in Russia.

Now, my Mum is the soup alchemist in our family, but I've come up with something delicious... chickpea, fennel and summer squash, cooked in white wine with herbes de -LSB-...]

Thankfully, ranking up and earning the status of the best alchemists in the kingdom is secondary to the mysterious paintings.

You follow Lydie and Suelle as they embark on their quest to become the greatest alchemists in the land, as they promised to their mother.

«Seeking a working method that would bring him «a feeling of freedom», Cai Guo - Qiang experimented with various materials, and in 1989 he unveiled a series of drawings rendered in gunpowder, a substance first discovered by Chinese alchemists in search of the elixir of life for the Emperor and yet used subsequently to kill.

1989 he unveiled a series of drawings rendered in gunpowder, a substance first discovered by Chinese alchemists in search of the elixir of life for the Emperor and yet used subsequently to kill.

Not exact matches

Bennett also suggests «Collective Genius,» a book on leadership and innovation, as well as Paulo Coelho's «The Alchemist,» an inspirational novel that has a strong following in business circles.

UPDATE: As I was about to post this, I came across the Washington Post's best - of list which includes business titles Lean In, The Everything Store, The Alchemists and The Billionaire's Apprentice.

H. Wayne Huizenga earned a reputation as a corporate alchemist, and had a hand in building three of South Florida's professional sports teams.

And despite the best efforts of alchemists, we can't recreate its unique chemistry in a lab.

The Oscar winner is among an elite circle of Hollywood and Silicon Valley backers behind Diamond Foundry (Disruptor No. 33), a Bay Area company that claims it uses technology to accomplish what alchemists and others have attempted in vain for centuries: growing diamonds and other precious sto...

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While the stuff is simmering away, the alchemist is always nearby in intense concentration.

So we need not conjure up, in thinking through the relationships among community, knowledge, and truth, assortments of alchemists or flat - earthers as plausible examples of communities of inquirers within the contemporary academy.

On a glossy, new - construction stretch of East 1st Street in New York, The Alchemist's Kitchen occupies one of those steel and glass storefronts that are becoming ubiquitous in the city.

ChocoVivo's bean - to - bar alchemist Patricia Tsai makes incredible chocolate using a stone - grinding method inspired by Mayan and Aztec cacao craftsmanship, incorporating whole spices with roasted beans in bold flavor combinations.

NUMI ORGANIC TEA Founded in 1999 by brother and sister team Ahmed Rahim (the alchemist) and Reem Rahim (the artist), Numi Organic Tea is a purveyor of premium quality organic, non-GMO and fair trade certified teas and teasans.

We would be remiss in not recognizing him as an inventive alchemist when it comes to innovation — gin, Destillaré cordials, absinthe, bitters, and more to come, we certainly breathe rare air when it comes to relentless innovation, with Brandon making the complex, and arcane, come to life in spirit form.»

The awards were judged by three bona fide experts: Jesse Brenneman, Co-Founder and Chief Alchemist of Deacon Giles Distillery, Todd Maul, Co-Founder of Café ArtScience, and Trisha Antonsen, Editor - in Chief and Chief Cocktail Officer of Drizly.

«Since we launched our Chocolate Pu - erh Tea in 2008, it has increased in its popularity every year,» says Ahmed Rahim, CEO and chief alchemist for Numi Organic Tea.

French Distillers and Alchemists was the first legal distillery in Broome County since the prohibition and make homemade whisky.

«I am not an alchemist that specializes in taking manufactured bullshit and spinning it into gold,» Hensley said during the interview.

Some level of uncertainty is par for the course in the world of do - it - yourself chemistry, which has seen the number of entrepreneurial alchemists explode in the years since Patrick Arnold gulped down his first chemical concoction and went on to become one of America's most notorious underground chemists.

First century A.D.: Miriam the Jewess This alchemist lived in Alexandria and is perhaps the first female scientist to have her work preserved in any form.

It may be argued that some alchemists regarded it as the elixir of life — and in a curious way they were right.

Scientists demonstrated the efficiency and versatility of their method by using it to print a copy of 17th - century mystic philosopher Robert Fludd's image of the sun (the alchemist's symbol for gold) using about 20,000 gold particles, each of them 60 nanometers in diameter.

Conventional fossil fuel takes millions of years to form, but a determined niche of modern alchemists are vastly accelerating the process to brew biocrude, a fuel similar to petroleum that is produced in less than two months from agricultural or municipal waste.

It is with this in mind that Hoodbhoy provides a useful critique of attempts by other authors to discuss Islamic science as if the realities of modern life simply did not exist, and Muslims could wish themselves back to the numinous realms of the medieval alchemists.

Sir Isaac Newton, PRS, (4 January [O.S. 25 December 1642] 1643 to 31 March [O.S. 20 March] 1727) was an English physicist, mathematician, astronomer, alchemist, inventor and natural philosopher who is generally regarded as one of the most influential scientists in history.

Geber's way of thinking became the new standard for medieval alchemists as they started distilling mercury and combining it with different metals in an effort to make the Philosophers» Stone.

In other words, alchemists had to discern and then mimic natural processes.

In an age when there were no microscopes to penetrate living cells and no understanding of the nature of atoms and molecules, the alchemists were not misguided so much as misinformed, doing their best to make sense of a world they could not see.

Well - trained, intellectual alchemists sold the prospect of making gold to rich patrons, and less well - educated alchemists with day jobs tinkered the night away trying to make gold in makeshift kitchen laboratories.

To alchemists toiling and tinkering in the laboratory, Geber was an infallible master; his book was regarded as the bible of alchemy.

Like Newman's, Principe's immersion in the labyrinthine world of alchemy began in college, in his case in the early 1980s, after he read The Twelve Keys, an allegorical work written in the 15th century by an influential alchemist and supposed Benedictine monk, Basil Valentine.

A Boyle notebook uncovered by Principe in the mid-1990s describes how a wandering alchemist seemingly transformed lead into gold before his eyes.

Then they did something unheard - of in recent times: They made replicas of the laboratory glassware used by 15th -, 16th -, and 17th - century alchemists and re-created their experiments firsthand.

Advances in medical research have turned scientists into modern day alchemists.

Ancient alchemists ate it in search of longevity.

Employed by The Alchemist's Kitchen as a managing herbalist, she attended ArborVitae School of Traditional Herbalism and is currently enrolled in a certificate program at Blue Otter School of Herbal Medicine in Northern California.

-- Paulo Coelho in The Alchemist

So this year, I urge you to get cozy with a cup of tea and look at where you can find more creativity in your life, where you can be more mindful, where you can become your own alchemist, and where you can love yourself more.

The big takeaway for me after reading The Alchemist (now several times) is how there really are no throwaway moments in life.

The Alchemist is the popular fictional tale of a boy named Santiago whose quest takes him from southern Spain to the treacherous deserts of northern Africa in search of a treasure that comes to him in a dream.

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As a Reiki Master / Teacher, Fine Artist and self - styled «Kitchen Alchemist», she draws on her empathic, intuitive nature and her gifts of clairvoyance, clairaudience and clairsentience, to gain insights on how to best assist with what is in her clients» highest alignment.

The third chakra is the Alchemist's crucible through which you can catalyze changes in your life in order to fuel the expansive, compassionate potential of the heart.