AMBIX. The Journal of the Society for the History of Alchemy and Chemistry. Vol. XXXIX, No. 2, July 1992.
Cambridge: W. Heffer & Sons LTD., 1992. First Edition. Softcover. Small quarto journal. Original printed wrappers. 56 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: The Chemistry and Metallurgy of Transmutation. By Vladimír Karpenko; Robert Boyle's Alchemical Secrecy: Codes, Ciphers and Concealments. By L.M. Principe; The Mishaps of Peripheral Science: The Life and Work of Manoel Joaquim Henriques de Paiva, Luso-Brazilian Chemist and Physician of the Late Eighteenth Century. By Carlos A. L. Filgueiras; Essay Review: Alchemy Revisited. Proceedings of the International Conference in the History of Chemistry at the University of Groningen. Edited by Z. R. W. Von Martels. Leiden: E.J. Brill, 1990. Rev. by P.M. Rattansi; Reviews of Books: The Early Ethics and Essays of Robert Boyle. By John T. Harwood. Carbondale: Southern Illinois University Press, 1991. Rev. by Malcolm Oster; Michael Faraday's "Chemical Notes, Hints, Suggestions, and Objects of Pursuit" of 1822. Edited by Ryan D. Tweeny and David Gooding. London: Peter Peregrinus/ Science Museum, 1991. Rev. by Frank Greenaway; The Industrial Revolution in Metals. Edited by Joan Day and R. F. Tylecote. London: Institute of Metals, 1991. Rev. by R. Angus Buchanan; Nineteenth-Century Attitudes: Men of Science (Chemists and Chemistry, Vol.13). By Sydney Ross. Dordrecht: Kluwer Academic Publishers, 1991. Rev. by B. Gee; Berichte der Justus Liebig-Gesellschaft zu Giessen. Band I. Symposium "150 Jahre Agrikulturchemie". Edited by G. K. Judel, M. Winnewisser and J. C. Grecu. Giessen: Justus Liebig-Gesellschaft, 1990 [1992]. Rev. by W.H. Brock; Die Nachläße von Martius, Liebig und den Brüdern Schlagintweit in der Bayerischen Staatsbibliothek. Edited by Anne Büchler, Rolf Schumacher and Stephan Kellner. (Catalogus Codicum Manuscriptorum Bibliothecae Monacensis, tome X, pars 2.) Wiesbaden: Otto Harrassowitz, 1990. Rev. by W.H. Brock; The Alchemical World of the German Court. Occult Philosophy and Chemical Medicine in the Circle of Moritz von Hessen (1572-1632). (Sudhoffs Archiv,Beiheft H. 29). By Bruce T. Moran. Stuttgart: Franz Steiner Verlag, 1991. Rev.by Allen G. Debus; Anne Bradstreet Revisited. By Rosamond Rosenmeier. Boston: Twayne, 1991.Rev. by Robert Ward Science and Religion. Some Historical Perspectives. (Cambridge History of Science Series.) By John Hedley Brooke. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1991. Rev. by Frank A.J.L. James; Atoms, Pneuma and Tranquility. Epicurean and Stoic Themes in European Thought. Edited by Margaret J. Osler. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press,1991. Rev. by Marie Boas Hall; The Rise of Scientific Europe 1500-1800. Edited by David Goodman and Colin A. Russell. Sevenoaks: Hodder & Stoughton/ Open University, 1991. Rev. by W.H. Brock. Fine Condition. Item #34377
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