<paraindent><param>out</param><color><param>7F00,0000,0000</param>> * By t= he way, can anybody tell me about a strange character that </paraindent> <paraindent><param>out</param>> appears in this book(unknown to me): Johan= Rudolf </paraindent> <paraindent><param>out</param>> Glauber, a forerunner of modern theroies a= bout war(EJ and others) </paraindent> <paraindent><param>out</param>> and synarchy)?.</paraindent> </color>The following informations about Glauber are from Der Gro=DFe Brockhaus, Wiesbaden 1954. <paraindent><param>out</param><bold><color><param>0100,0100,0100</param>Gl= auber,</paraindent> </bold> Johann Rudolf, Chemiker und Apotheker, *<FontFamily><param>Uc_251= </param>=FF<FontFamily><param>Arial</param>Karlstadt (Franken) 1604, <FontFamily><param>Uc_270</param>=9D<FontFamily><param>Uc_251</param= >=FF<FontFamily><param>Arial</param>Amsterdam 10.<FontFamily><param>Uc_251= </param>=FF<FontFamily><param>Arial</param>3. 1668.</color> Lebte nach unstetem Wanderleben zuletzt in Holland. Auf alchimistischer =DCberlieferung fu=DFend, vertiefte er die Kenntnis besonders =FCber Salze (Glaubersalz), Minerals=E4uren und =FCber Holzdestillation. Er bem=FChte sich um die volkswirtschaftliche Nutzung der Chemie. Hauptwerke: Beschreibung einer Destillierkunst (1648); Des Teutschen Wolfarth, 7 Bde. (Amsterdam 1656-61); Glauberus Concentratus (1715, Gesammelte Werke). According to Der Brockhaus Mulitmedial 2000 Glauber died 1670 and "synthetisierte neue Substanzen, entwickelte zahlreiche chemisch-technische Prozesse.". An article on Glauber: http://www.britanicca.com/bcom/eb/article/6/0,5716,37736%201%2 037001,00.html All in all, he seems not to have been a forerunner of modern theories on war. W. Krisai Mag. Wolfgang Krisai w.krisai@kabsi.at
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