AMBIX. The Journal of the Society for the History of Alchemy and Chemistry. Vol. XL, No. 1, March 1993.
Cambridge: W. Heffer & Sons LTD., 1993. First Edition. Softcover. Small quarto journal. Original printed wrappers. 40 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 Development of Science and Scientific Communication: Justus Liebig's Two Famous Publications of 1840. By Regine Zott; When is a tool not a tool? Understanding the Role of Laboratory Equipment in the Early Colloidal Chemistry Laboratory. By Andrew Ede; Note: Alembics, Cucurbits, Phials, Crucibles: A 16th-Century Alchemical Laboratory Inventory Excavated in Austria. By R. W. Soukup, S. von Osten, and H. Mayer; Reviews of Books: Graf Wolfgang II von Hohenlohe und die Alchemie. Alchemistische Studien in Schloss Weikersheim 1587-1610. By Jost Weyer. Sigmaringen: Jan Thorbecke Verlag, 1992. Rev. by Lawrence M. Principe; Hexenkräuter oder Arznei. Die Arbeitungsmittel im 16. und 17.Jahrhundert. By Larissa Leibrock-Plehn. Stuttgart: Wissenschaftliche Verlagsgesellschaft, 1992. Rev. by Marianne Winder; Medicine and Shakespeare in the English Renaissance. By F. David Hoeniger, Newark, Del: University of Delaware Press; London and Toronto: Associated University Presses, 1992. Rev. by Andrew Wear; Nicholas Culpeper. English Physician and Astrologer. By Olav Thulesius. New York: St. Martin's Press; Basingstoke: Macmillan, 1992. Rev. by D.E. Allen; Promoting Experimental Learning. Experiment and the Royal Society 1660-1727. By Marie Boas Hall. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1991. Rev. by David Gooding; Letters and Papers of Robert Boyle. A Guide to Manuscripts and Microfilm. Compiled by Michael Hunter. (Collections from the Royal Society). Bethesda,MD: University Publications of America. Rev. by Malcolm Oster; Die Alchemie und ihr Stummes Buch (Mutus Liber). Vollständige Wiedergabe der Original-Ausgabe von La Rochelle 1677. Introduction and commentary by Eugène Canseliet. Amsterdam: Edition Weber, 1991. Rev. by Y.K. Centeno; The Invisible College: A Study of Three Original Rosicrucian Texts. By Stanley W. Beeler. New York: AMS Press, 1991. Rev. by Deborah L. Madsen; The Rose Cross and the Age of Reason. Eighteenth-Century Rosicrucianism in Central Europe and its Relationship to the Enlightenment. By Christopher McIntosh. Leiden: E.J. Brill, 1992. Rev. by C. Webster; Jonathan Swift and the Millenium of Madness: The Information Age in Swift's 'A Tale of the Tub'. By Kenneth Craven. Leiden, New York and Cologne: E.J.Brill, 1992. Rev. by Stuart Sim; Chemical Lectures of H. T. Scheffer. Edited by Torbern Bergman (1775) and translated by J. A. Schufle. (Chemists and Chemistry, vol. 14). Dordrecht,Boston, London: Kluwer Academic Publishers, 1992. Rev. by W.A. Smeaton; Vulkanismusstreit und Geochemie: Die Bedeutung der Chemie und des Experiments in der Vulkanismus-Neptunismus-Kontroverse. By Bernhard Fritscher. (Boethius. Texte und Abhandlungen zur Geschichte der Mathematik und der Naturwissenschaften. Bd. XXV). Stuttgart: Franz Steiner Verlag, 1991. Rev. by Martin Guntau; Eilhard Mitscherlich. Baumeister am Fundament der Chemie. By Hans Werner Schütt. (Abhandlungen und Berichte, Neue Folge, Bd. 8). München: Deutsches Museum/R. Oldenburg Verlag, 1992. Rev. by Robin Keen; Naturwissenschaften und Chemische Industrie in Deutschland. Voraussetzungen und Mechanism ihres Aufstiegs in 19.Jahrhundert. By Walter Wetzel. Stuttgart: Franz Steiner Verlag, 1991. Rev. by Jeffrey A. Johnson; Weighed in the Balance. A History of the Laboratory of the Government Chemist. By P. W. Hammond and Harold Egan. London: HMSO, 1992. Rev.by Ray Anderson; The Historical Development of Chemical Concepts. By Roman Mierzecki.(Chemists and Chemistry, vol. 12). Dordrecht, Boston, London: Kluwer Academic Publishers; Warsaw: Panstwowe Wydawnictwo Naukowe-Polish Scientific Publishers, 1991. Rev. by Colin A. Russell. Fine Condition. Item #34380
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