User talk:Car Henkel/Archive 6

Alchemy
TBH I also noticed that the outline page is seriously lacking and the navbox needs (especially) a better list of notable alchemists. Do you have the kind of time to take it upon yourself to start improving the two, or maybe at least give a better idea of what's missing? You look like you're savvy about the topic. — Jeraphine Gryphon  (talk) 01:01, 30 December 2011 (UTC)

BTW, Adam McLean was just PRODded. — Jeraphine Gryphon  (talk) 01:04, 30 December 2011 (UTC)
 * Yeah. Saw that.  Lots of work to be done on Alchemy topics in general. List of alchemists is in decent shape now.  I haven't yet touched outline and navbox as they didn't seem all that used.  There's thousands of alchemists and alchemical works and I'm not sure the navbox is a good place for that info.  I'll do my best to work on Adam McLean then the outlines and will follow this with a post to Wiki Project Occult.  Thanks. Car Henkel (talk) 01:19, 30 December 2011 (UTC)

your reversions on alchemy article
feel free to fix the markup issues that you pointed out. However, the new material is wrong, irrelevant and POV and some of it is extremely silly and baseless.Janus945 (talk) 05:56, 15 January 2012 (UTC)

there's no need to make threats on my talk page. As I indcated, the edits you have made to the alchemy article are ridiculous and without meritJanus945 (talk) —Preceding undated comment added 01:45, 17 January 2012 (UTC).
 * Addressed at Talk:Alchemy. Car Henkel (talk) 17:13, 17 January 2012 (UTC)

Outline of alchemy
I've worked on it a little. The Transhumanist 10:06, 27 May 2012 (UTC)

Edit on the Cleopatra the alchemist for wikiproject the university of oklahoma
Hello, I have revised the "Cleopatra the Alchemsit" page. I am working on this for a History of science class. I have just added a few more sources and a schosh more detail. I wanted to shed some light on the role women played in science in ancient Egyot, March is women's history month btw. I have talked about her association with the queen cleoptara according to my research, she may have worked fro her making cosmetics, fragrances and jewelry. Also I have touched on her symbol the snake named Ouroboros, and its concentric meaning. I have added a picture of this and also touched on her work of gold making. here is the new revised version

Cleopatra the Alchemist (3rd or 4th century), was an Egyptian alchemist and author. The dates of her life and death are unknown, but she was active in Alexandria in the 3rd century or the 4th century. "She was associated with the Maria's School and may have been her contemporary in Alexandria." [1] Women chemists in Ancient Egypt were not uncommon as they were primarily active concocting fragrances and cosmetics. This was a largely female dominated branch of science "(For this reason the work of the early alchemist were sometimes called opus milierum 'women's work'). [2] Cleopatra is a pseudonym for an author whose real name has been lost. She is not the same person as Cleopatra VII, nonetheless she may be referred to as Cleopatra: Queen of Egypt in some later works. "As we noted, she was linked to with the famous Queen Kleopatra to whom the Arab writer Ibn-Wahs-Chijiah attributed a book on poisons and to whom the Romans gave a book on cosmetics [3] One example of this can be found in Basillica Philosophica by Johann Daniel Mylius (1618), where her seal is pictured alongside the motto: "The divine is hidden from the people according to the wisdom of the Lord".[1] Cleopatra is also used as a character within the dialogue of the alchemical texts themselves. Cleopatra was a foundational figure in alchemy, pre-dating Zosimos of Panopolis. Michael Maier names her as one of the four women who knew how to make the philosopher's stone, along with Maria the Jewess, Medera, and Taphnutia.[2] Cleopatra was mentioned with great respect in the Arabic encyclopedia Kitab al-Fihrist from 988. She is most noted for the text Chrysopoeia of Cleopatra, a sheet of papyrus which contains many emblems," indeed her discourse is the most imaginative a deeply felt document left by the alchemist" [3] later developed and used within gnostic and hermetic philosophy. An example is the serpent eating its own tail as a symbol of the eternal return, Ouroboros; The snake curving around with his head in his mouth is an obvious emblem of unity of the cosmos,of eternity,where the beginning is the end and the end is the beginning." [3] pg. 161. and another is the eight-banded star. Her work also contained several descriptions and drawings of the technical process of furnaces. She is sometimes credited with the invention of the alembic.[3] — Preceding unsigned comment added by OUlivi (talk • contribs) 03:25, 24 March 2014 (UTC)

Philosopher's stone
Hello Car Henkel, I just thanked you for your removal, but I'm having second thoughts. Why do you say it's taken from gnosticteachings.org? I don't see that text on that page, and I searched for "an example would be ... stone of Yesod", but didn't find it either. Where exactly did you find that text? &mdash; Sebastian 07:31, 4 February 2016 (UTC)
 * Link Car Henkel (talk) 08:25, 4 February 2016 (UTC)
 * Thank you! &mdash; Sebastian 10:10, 4 February 2016 (UTC)

Coral Short
Hello Car Henkel, I noticed that you made some updates to Coral Short's article a while back. If you are interested in editing other articles about female and feminist artists, join us on Saturday! Emma Oakley (talk) 22:16, 9 March 2016 (UTC)
 * A bit far for me but I'll do my best to take part online:) Car Henkel (talk) 16:57, 10 March 2016 (UTC)