AMBIX. The Journal of the Society for the History of Alchemy and Chemistry. Vol. XXXV, No. 3. November 1988.
Cambridge: W. Heffer & Sons LTD., 1988. First Edition. Softcover. Small quarto journal. Original printed wrappers. 64 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." Articles: J. J. Thomson and Radioactivity, Part II. By S. B. Sinclair; Thirteenth Century Material Pantheism in the Pseudo-Lullian S-Circle of the Powers of the Soul. By Ursula Szulakowska; Medical chemistry at Guy's Hospital (1770-1850). By Noel G. Coley; Reviews of Books: Erinnerungen eines deutsches Naturforschers. By Johannes Stark, with an introduction by Andreas Kleinert; George Ernst Stahl. By Irene Strube; English Science, Bacon to Newton. Edited by Brian Vickers; Chrysopoeia. (Revue publiée par la Societé d'Etude de l'Histoire d'Alchimie.Vol. 1, Fasc. 1 & 2); Botticelli, Signorelli and Savonarolla. Theologia poetica and Painting from Boccaccio to Poliziano. By Stanley Meltzoff; Gassendi the Atomist. Advocate of History in an Age of Science. By Lynn Sumida Joy; The Rosicrucians and Magister Christoph Schlegel. Hermetic Roots of America. By Manley P. Hall, with supplements by A. Russell Slagel and Donald C. Kerr; Schets der Leer van Lavoisier door Martinus van Marum. Foreword by A.H.C.A. Weichmann, introduction by H.A.M. Snelders, annotations by Jan W.Van Spronsen; My Dear Mr Bell: Letters from Dr Jonathan Periera to Mr Jacob Bell, London,1844 to 1853. Edited by C.P. Cloughly, J.G.L. Burnby and M.P. Earles; Oxford Rebels. The Life and Friends of Nevil Story Maskelyn 1823-1911,Pioneer Oxford Scientist, Photographer and Politician. By Vanda Morton; Norman Collie: a Life in Two Worlds. Mountain Explorer and Scientist 1854-1942. By Christine Mill Fine Condition. Item #34368
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