{"id":2758,"date":"2009-10-19T08:17:03","date_gmt":"2009-10-19T07:17:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.roger-pearse.com\/weblog\/?p=2758"},"modified":"2009-10-19T08:17:03","modified_gmt":"2009-10-19T07:17:03","slug":"stephen-of-alexandria","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/roger-pearse.com\/weblog\/2009\/10\/19\/stephen-of-alexandria\/","title":{"rendered":"Stephen of Alexandria"},"content":{"rendered":"<p align=\"justify\">At the court of the emperor Heraclius, the philosopher Stephen of Alexandria (or Stephanos of Alexandria) delivered a series of nine lectures on alchemical subjects.\u00a0 Translations of three of these were published in early issues of <em>Ambix<\/em>, a scholarly journal dedicated to early chemistry, before WW2.\u00a0 <a href=\"https:\/\/roger-pearse.com\/weblog\/?p=133\">I found a first draft of a translation of the fourth<\/a> among the papers of the translator, in the Oxford Museum of Science in Broad Street.\u00a0 Unfortunately the handwriting was beyond me, being on a technical subject unfamiliar to myself.<\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\">I had an email this morning from someone who reckons that he might be able to do better.\u00a0 I&#8217;ve emailed him the PDF of the scans and my opening shot at transcription.<\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\">There was a further reason why I did not proceed; the material in Ambix is all in copyright, so cannot go online.\u00a0 Nor can this translation, without the permission of the family.\u00a0 I don&#8217;t place online material owned by others.\u00a0 So what could I do with it?\u00a0 Yet&#8230; why all these restrictions?\u00a0 Is there a single person in the world other than myself who even knows who Stephen is?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At the court of the emperor Heraclius, the philosopher Stephen of Alexandria (or Stephanos of Alexandria) delivered a series of nine lectures on alchemical subjects.\u00a0 Translations of three of these were published in early issues of Ambix, a scholarly journal dedicated to early chemistry, before WW2.\u00a0 I found a first draft of a translation of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"jetpack_seo_schema_type":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_hide_featured_image":false,"_jetpack_featured_image_duplicate_dismissed":0,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2758","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-information-access"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/roger-pearse.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2758","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/roger-pearse.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/roger-pearse.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/roger-pearse.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/roger-pearse.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2758"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/roger-pearse.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2758\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/roger-pearse.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2758"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/roger-pearse.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2758"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/roger-pearse.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2758"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}