AMBIX. The Journal of the Society for the History of Alchemy and Chemistry. Vol. XXXVIII, No. 3. November 1991.
Cambridge: W. Heffer & Sons LTD., 1991. First Edition. Softcover. Small quarto journal. Original printed wrappers. 60 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: Heinrich Caro at Roberts, Dale & Co. By Anthony S. Travis; Liebig's Metamorphosis: From Organic Chemistry to the Chemistry of Agriculture. By Pat Munday; The Rehabilitation of an Agricultural Chemist: Justus von Liebig and the Seventh Edition. By Mark R. Finlay; Reviews of Books: The Study of Change. Chemistry in China 1840-1945. By James Reardon-Anderson. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, New York etc. 1991; Experiment, Right or Wrong. By Alan Franklin. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, New York etc. 1990; Om Krudtets og Salpetersydningens historie. By Rolf W. Berg. (Extract from Danmarks Tekniske Museums Ârsbog 1988.) Danmarks Tekniske Museum, Elsinore, 1989; Die Zeitschrift für physikalische Chemie. Hundert Jahre Wechselwirkung zwischen Fachswissenschaft Kommunikationsmedium und Gesellschaft. (Bibliothemata, Bd. 2.) By Thomas Hapke. Verlag Traugott Bautz, Hertz 1990; A Science of Impurity. Water Analysis in Nineteenth Century Britain. By Christopher Hamlin. Adam Hilger, Bristol 1990; The University of London and the World of Learning, 1836-1986. Edited by F.M.L. Thompson. The Hambledon Press, London and Ronceverte, 1990; Vom hylealischen, das is pri-materialischen catholischen oder allgemeinen natürlichen Chaos, der naturgemässen Alchymiae und Alchymisten. By Heinrich Kuhnrath. Facsimile of the Frankfurt 1708 edition with an Introduction by Elmar R. Gruberg. Akademische Druck- u. Verlagsanstalt,Graz, Austria, 1990. Fine Condition. Item #34375
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