AMBIX. The Journal of the Society for the History of Alchemy and Chemistry. Vol. XLI, No. 3, November 1994.
Cambridge: W. Heffer & Sons LTD., 1994. 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: Islamic Alchemy According to al-Khwarizmi. By Karin C. Ryding; The Sources of Arthur Dee's Fasciculus Chemicus (1631). By Lyndy Abraham; Angelo Sala, an Iatrochemist of the Late Renaissance. By Zahkar E. Gelman. Reviews of Books: Alchemie et Philosophie à la Renaissance. Edited by Jean Claude Margolin and Sylvan Matton. Paris. Libraire Philosophique J. Vrin, 1993. Rev. by L.M. Principe; Chemistry Imagined. Reflections on Science. By Roald Hoffmann and Vivian Torrence. Washington DC. Smithsonian Institution Press, 1993. Rev. by G. Beer; After Newton: Essays on Natural Philosophy. By P. M. Harman. Aldershot, Hants. Variorum, 1993. Rev. by G.A.J. Rogers; The Correspondence of Michael Faraday, Vol. 2, 1832 - December 1840, Letters 525-1333. Edited by Frank A.J.L. James. London. Institution of Electrical Engineers, 1993. Rev. by B. Gee; Auguste Laurent and the Prehistory of Valence. By Marya Novitski. Chur, Switzerland. Harwood Academic Publishers, 1992. Rev. by J.H. Brooke Lettere a Stanislao Cannizzaro 1863-1868. Edited by Leonello Paoloni. Seminario de Storia della Scienza Quaderni N. 3, 1993. Rev. by C. Kounelis; Organic Chemistry: Its Language and its State of the Art. Edited by M. Volkan Kisakürek. Basel, Switzerland. Verlag Helvetica Chemica Acta, 1993. Rev. by G.B. Kauffman; Leaving No Stone Unturned. Pathways in Organometallic Chemistry. Profiles,Pathways and Dreams Series. Washington DC. American Chemical Society, 1993. Rev. by C.A. Russell; From Turkey Red to Tyrian Purple. Textile Colours for the Industrial Revolution. By Anthony S. Travis. Jerusalem, The Jewish National and University Library. Sidney M. Edelstein Collection, 1993. Rev. by F.G. Fine Condition. Item #34390
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