Modern Ideas Library

In terms of popular knowledge, the traces found were not connected with the periodic classification, but with atoms and elements. In a collection entitled Bibliotheca das Ideias Modernas (Modern Ideas Library) conveying modern scientific ideas, two titles stand out Wurtz s The Theory of Atoms and The World General Conception and Berthelot s The Nature of Chemical Elements Both were translated and published in 1883, in Porto. 

Warburg s method implies a montage of different temporaHties archaic, ancient, and modern. The Mnemosyne project was unfinished at Warburg s death in 1929, but the idea survives in his library, now of the Warburg Institute, in London. 

Alchemy 16th cent], ca. 1525, Wellcome Library, MS.24, fol. 1. On the idea of secrets of nature, see William Eamon, Science and the Secrets of Nature Books of Secrets in Medieval and Early Modern Culture (Princeton, N.J. Princeton University Press, 1994). 

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