Item #34373 AMBIX. The Journal of the Society for the History of Alchemy and Chemistry. Vol. XXXVIII, No. 1. March 1991. Dr. M. A. SUTTON.

AMBIX. The Journal of the Society for the History of Alchemy and Chemistry. Vol. XXXVIII, No. 1. March 1991.

Cambridge: W. Heffer & Sons LTD., 1991. First Edition. Softcover. Small quarto journal. Original printed wrappers. 72 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: Another Look at Robert Boyle's Acceptance of the Mechanical Philosophy: its Limits and its Chemical and Social Contexts. By Yung Sik Kim; Peter Crossthwaite: John Dalton's "Friend and Colleague". By Herbert T. Pratt; The Case of Joseph Griffin: from Artisan-Chemist and Author-Instructor to Business-Leader. By Brian Gee and William H. Brock; Reviews of Books: L'Art Hermetique à dècouvert ou nouvelle lumiére magique où sont contenus diverses Mystères des Egyptiens, des Hébreux et des Caldéens. By Thomas Vaughan. Facsimile of 1787 Edition, edited by Dorothy Kahn. J.C. Bailly, Gutenberg Reprints, Paris 1989; Bermannus (Le Mineur). Un Dialogue sur les mines. By George Agricola. Introduction, translation and commentary by Robert Halleaux and Albert Yans Les Belles Lettres, Paris 1990; John Dee's Natural Philosophy. Between Science and Religion. By Nicholas H. Clulee. Routledge, London and New York 1988; Tommaso Campanella. Sein Beitrag zur Medizin und Pharmazie der Renaissance. By Michael Mönnich. (Heidelberger Schriften zur Pharmazie- und Naturwissenschaftsgeschichte, Bd. 2.) Wissenschaftliche Verlagsgesellschaft: Stuttgart 1990; Establishing the New Science. The Experience of the Early Royal Society. By Michael Hunter. The Boydell Press, Woodbridge, Suffolk 1989; Robert Hooke. New Studies. Edited by Michael Hunter and Simon Schaffer.The Boydell Press, Woodbridge, Suffolk 1990; Chromatographic Adsorption Analysis: Selected Works. By Mikhail Semenovich Tswett. (Compiled by V.G. Berezkin.) Ellis Horwood, New York, London 1990; Georg von Welling (1655-1727). Studien zu Leben und Werk. (Heidelberger Studien zur Naturkunde der frühen Neuezeit Bd. 2.) By Petra Jungmayr. Franz Steiner Verlag, Stuttgart 1990; Robert Robinson: Chemist Extraordinary. By Trevor R. Williams. Clarendon Press, Oxford 1990; Early Developments in Radiation Chemistry. Edited by J. Kroh. Royal Society of Chemistry, Cambridge 1989; Man and Nature: the Spiritual Crisis of Modern Man. By Seyyed Hossein Nasr. Unwin Hyman Paperbacks, London 1990; Physical Chemistry from Ostwald to Pauling. The Making of a Science in America. By John W. Servos. Princeton University Press, Princeton 1990. Fine Condition. Item #34373

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