*apologies for cross-posting*
During Trinity Term, you are invited to attend the
Oxford Seminar in the History of Alchemy and Chemistry. The four seminars will take place on Wednesdays from 3pm-5pm at the Maison Francaise, 2-10 Norham Road, OX2 6SE.
The first session will be on Wednesday 7 May, the topic will be ‘18th Century Scottish Chemistry’ and will be chaired by John Perkins (Oxford Brookes).
The presenters are:
Georgette Taylor (UCL)
Pedagogues and Pedagogue-ability: Cullen versus Plummer at Edinburgh University
John Christie (Oxford)
Professors and Students in the Age of the Chemical Revolution
The seminar is free of charge, and anyone with an interest in the history of alchemy, chemistry, medicine or the sciences is invited to attend. The format is two papers followed by a Questions & Answers session. There will be an
opportunity to socialise at a nearby pub afterwards. In addition, everyone is welcome to join us for dinner with the speaker and chair.
The next seminars are:
14 May: 18th Century Russian Alchemy and Chemistry
Chair: John Christie (Oxford)
Alexander Iosad (Oxford)
The Usefulness of Chemistry, the Uses of Science: the Place of Chemistry in Russia after Peter I
Robert Collis (Helsinki)
Alchemy and Elite Culture in Russia in the Long Eighteenth-Century, 1697-1796
21 May: Distillation Alchemy in the Renaissance
Chair: Georgiana Hedesan (Oxford)
Fabrizio Bigotti (Warburg)
‘Homo alembicus’ and the Idea of Alchemical Destillatio in Renaissance Medicine
Tillmann Taape (Cambridge)
Experience, Craftsmanship and Alchemical Medicine in Hieronymus Brunschwig's Distillation Manuals
28 May: Early Modern Alchemy
Chair: Howard Hotson (Oxford)
Anke Timmermann (Cambridge)
Alchemy, Images and Early Modern Cambridge
Georgiana Hedesan (Oxford)
Van Helmont on the Acquisition of the Medical Alchemical Arcana
For more information, questions or directions to the venue, please feel free to contact the Lead Organiser, Georgiana Hedesan, at
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All the best,
Jo
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Georgiana D. Hedesan
Wellcome Trust Fellow
University of Oxford
History Faculty
George Street
Oxford, OX1 2R