AMBIX. The Journal of the Society for the History of Alchemy and Chemistry. Vol. XXXIII, No. 1. March 1986.
Cambridge: W. Heffer & Sons LTD., 1986. First Edition. Softcover. Small quarto journal. Original printed wrappers. 52 pp. Ambix is the beautifully-produced journal of the Society for the History of Alchemy and Chemistry (SHAC). "Founded in 1937, SHAC has consistently maintained the highest standards of scholarship in all aspects of the history of alchemy and chemistry from early times to the present." This number includes an essay: "An Interpretation of the Fama Fraternitas with Respect to Dee's Monas, Hieroglyphica" By T. M. Luhrman, Charles Loudon Bloxam - A Victorian University and Military Academy Chemistry Teacher. By D. I. Davies, D. C. Lyon and R. J. Spring, The British Association Committee on Chemical Symbols 1834: Edward Turner's Letter to British Chemists and a Reply by William Prout. By W. H. Brock, Reviews of Books: Die Pharmazie im Spannungsfield der Neuorientierung: Philipp Lorenz Geiger, (1785-1836) Leben, Werk und Wirken - Eine Biographie. By Ulrike Thomas, Images of Regeneration: a Study of Shakespeare's The Tempest and its Cultural Background. By Michael Srigley, Francis Bacon Science et Méthode. Actes du Colloque de Nantes. Edited by Michael Malherbe and Jean-Marie Pousseur, A History of the Nomenclature of Organic Chemistry. By Pieter Edward Verkade, Biblioteca magica dalle opere a stampa della Biblioteca Casantense di Roma(secc. xv-xvii). (Biblioteca di bibliografia Italiana CII), Religion and Neoplatonism in Renaissance Medicine. By Walter Pagel, Hermaphroditisches Sonn-und Mondskind (Mainz, 1752). Facsimile with a French Translation by Yann Lauthe and Introduction by Sylvain Matton, Chimica e Filosophia. Scienzia, Epistemologia, Storia e Religione nell'Opera di Pierre Duhem. By Roberto Maiocchi Religion, Science and the World View. Essays in Honour of Richard Westfall. Edited by Margaret J. Osler and Paul Lawrence Farber The Medical Renaissance of the Sixteenth Century. Edited by A. Wear, R. K. French, and I. M. Lonie, From Protyle to Proton. William Prout and the Nature of Matter, 1785-1985.By W. H. Brock, Recent Developments in the History of Chemistry. Edited by C. A. Russell, Science and the Enlightenment. By Thomas Hankins, Justus Liebig and August Wilhelm Hofmann in ihren Briefen (1841-1873). Edited by William Hodson Brock Fine Condition. Item #34360
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