AMBIX. The Journal of the Society for the History of Alchemy and Chemistry. Vol. XLII, No. 3, November 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: .Nikolai Zinin at Kazan University. By Nathan M. Brooks; The Chemist as Expert: The Consulting Career of Sir William Ramsay. By Katherine D. Watson; Some Aspects of the Work of Arthur Lapworth. By K. Schofield; Reviews of Books: The Business of Alchemy. Science and Culture in the Holy Roman Empire. By Pamela H. Smith. Princeton, NJ. Princeton University Press, 1994. Rev. by Mikuláš Teich; Alchemy and Chemistry in the 16th and 17th Centuries. Edited by Pio Rattansi and Antonio Clericuzio. Dordrecht. Kluwer Academic Publishers, 1994. Rev. by Marianne Winder; Water Which Does Not Wet Hands. The Alchemy of Michael Sendivogius. By Zbigniew Szydlo. Warsaw. Polish Academy of Sciences, 1994. Rev. by Lawrence M. Principe; The Mirror of Alchemy. Alchemical Ideas and Images in Manuscripts and Books from Antiquity to the Seventeenth Century. By Gareth Roberts. London. The British Library, 1994. Rev. by Allen G. Debus; The Atlantic Vision. Olaus Rudbeck and Baroque Science. By Gunnar Eriksson. Canton, MA. Science History Publications, 1994. Rev. by David Knight; In the Shadow of Lavoisier; the 'Annales de Chimie' and the Establishment of a New Science. By Maurice Crosland. Stanford in the Vale, Faringdon, Oxon, 1994. Rev. by Jack Meadows; The Quiet Revolution. Hermann Kolbe and the Science of Organic Chemistry. By Alan J. Rocke. Berkeley, CA. University of California Press, 1993. Rev. by W.H. Brock Fine Condition. Item #34396
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