AMBIX. The Journal of the Society for the History of Alchemy and Chemistry. Vol. XLII, No. 2, July 1995.
Cambridge: W. Heffer & Sons LTD., 1995. First Edition. Softcover. Small quarto journal. Original printed wrappers. 64 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 Mysticism and Science of Johann Baptista van Helmont (1579-1644). By Berthold Heinecke; E. F. Geoffroy's Table of Different 'Rapports' Observed Between Different Chemical Substances - A Reinterpretation. By Ursula Klein; Lavoisier, the Two French Revolutions and the 'Imperial Despotism of Oxygen'.By Maurice Crosland; Reviews of Books: The New (So-Called) Magdeburg Experiments of Otto von Guericke.Translated and edited by Margaret Glover Foley Ames. Dordrecht. Kluwer Academic Publishers, 1994. Rev. by Stephen Pumfrey; The Royal Society and its Fellows 1660-1700: The Morphology of an Early Scientific Institution. By Michael Hunter. Stanford in the Vale, Faringdon, Oxon. British Society for the History of Science, 1994. Rev. by Alan B.H. Taylor; Verbindung und Affinität. Die Grundlegung der neuzeitlichen Chemie an der Wende vom 17. zum 18. Jahrhundert. By Ursula Klein. Berlin. Berkhäuser Verlag, 1994. Rev. by Togo Tsukahara; Antoine Lavoisier: Science, Administration and Revolution. By Arthur Donovan. (Blackwell Scientific Biographies). Oxford. Blackwell, 1993. Rev. by Frank Greenaway; Justus von Liebig und Hermann Kolbe in ihren Briefen, 1846-1873. Edited by Alan J. Rocke and Emil Heuser. Mannheim. Bionomica Verlag, 1994. Rev. by W.H. Brock; Chemists and Chemistry in Nature and Society, 1770-1878. By Trevor H. Levere. Aldershot, Hants. Variorum (Ashgate Publishing Limited), 1994. Rev. by K.D. Watson Geschiedenis van de Techniek in Nederland. De wording van een moderne samenleving 1800-1890. Edited by H.W. Linsten et al. (Delfstoffen, machineen scheepsbouw, stoom, chemie, telegrafie en telefonie, vol. 4). Zutphen. Stichting Historie der Techniek, Walburg Pers, 1993. Rev. by Willem Hackmann; American Chemists and Chemical Engineers, volume 2. Edited by Wyndham D. Miles and Robert F. Gould. Guildford, CT. Gould Books, 1994. Rev. by George B. Kauffman. Fine Condition. Item #34395
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