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REMINDER
Chemistry and Publishing
Thursday 26 October 2006
Science Museum Lecture Theatre - 2pm
The Society for the History of Alchemy and Chemistry’s autumn meeting will
be held on Thursday 26 October 2006 at the Science Museum Lecture Theatre,
Science Museum, South Kensington, London at 2pm. At this half-day meeting
Peter Forshaw, David Knight, Richard Kidd and Jim Mussell will speak on
various aspects of chemistry and the written word from early modern times
to the present.
Programme
14.00 AGM
14.10 Introduction
14.15 Peter Forshaw (Birkbeck College, University of London)
'Arcana publicata vilescunt': Early Modern Chymistry and the Publication
of Secrets.
15.00 David Knight (University of Durham)
Publishing Chemistry in the Regency.
15.45 Break for Refreshments
16.15 Jim Mussell (Birkbeck College, University of London)
Chemical News in the Chemical News: publishing, property and secrecy in
late-nineteenth-century chemistry.
17.00 Richard Kidd (Royal Society of Chemistry)
RSC Journals Publishing: a view from the 21st Century.
17.30 End of Meeting
The meeting is open to all at a fee of £10.00.
If you would like to attend please email Dr Anna Simmons on
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For further details see www.ambix.org
Anna Simmons
Hon. Secretary
Society for the History of Alchemy and Chemistry
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