AMBIX. The Journal of the Society for the History of Alchemy and Chemistry. Vol. XXXVI, No. 1. March 1989.
Cambridge: W. Heffer & Sons LTD., 1989. First Edition. Softcover. Small quarto journal. Original printed wrappers. 48 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: Monsieur and Madame Lavoisier in 1789: The Chemical Revolution and the French Revolution. By W. A. Smeaton; The Lavoisier-Bucquet Collaboration: a Conjecture. By C. E. Perrin; The "Fatherland of Chemistry": Early Nationalistic Currents in Late Eighteenth Century German Chemistry. By Hans-Georg Schneider; Madame Lavoisier, P. S. and E. I. DuPont de Nemours and the Publication of Lavoisier's "Mémoires de Chimie". By W. A. Smeaton; Lavoisier and the Phlogistic Connection. By Robert Siegfried; Essay Review: Chemical Literature 1700-1860. A Bibliography with Annotations. By William A. Cole; Reviews of Books: The History of Scientific Discovery: the story of science told through the lives of twelve great scientists. By A.J. Meadows [with W.H. Brock and A.G. Keller]; De la Transmutatione de Metalli. Poema d'Alchimia del XVI secolo. By Antonio Allegretti. Edited by Mino Gabriele; Il Giardino di Hermes. Massimiliano Palombara alchimista e rosacroce nella Roma del Seicento. By Mino Gabriele; Robert Fludd and the End of the Renaissance. By William H. Huffman; Power and Penury: Government, Technology and Science in Philip II's Spain. By David C. Goodman; Archives of the British Chemical Industry 1750-1914. A Handlist. Compiled by Peter J.T. Morris and Colin A. Russell; The Age of Science. The Scientific World-view in the Nineteenth Century. By David Knight; University and Community in Nineteenth-Century Sydney. Professor John Smith 1821-1825. Edited by Roy MacLeod. Fine Condition. Item #34369
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