Event Description
Thursday 26 May
Alchemical Imagery and Experimental Practice – Chair: Angela Creager (Princeton University)
“Alchemical Imagery and Experimental Practice (Part 1): Origins, Varieties, and Purposes” – Lawrence M. Principe (Johns Hopkins University)
“Alchemical Imagery and Experimental Practice (Part 2): Philosophical Solvents and the Ripley Scroll” – Jennifer M. Rampling (Princeton University)
Friday 27 May
The Origins of Alchemical Imagery – Chair: Lawrence M. Principe
Marina Escolano-Poveda (University of Liverpool) – “Zosimos Aigyptiakos: Identifying the Imagery of the ‘Visions’ and Locating Zosimos of Panopolis in His Egyptian Context”
Sergei Zotov (University of Warwick) – “Possible Traces of Islamic Imagery in European Alchemical Manuscripts”
Diagramming Alchemy – Chair: Peter J. Forshaw
Marlis Hinckley (Johns Hopkins University) – “Alchemical and Philosophical Diagrams in the Pseudo-Lullian Liber de secretis naturae”
Stephen Clucas (Birkbeck, University of London) – “John Dee in the Garden of the Hesperides”
Art and the Boundaries of Alchemy
Melissa Reynolds (Princeton University) – “Learning to Look: Imagery Beyond Alchemy in English Manuscripts”
Janna Israel (Princeton University) – “The Imagery of Alchemical Instrumentation”
Sharifa Lookman (Princeton University) – “Between Metallurgy and Alchemy: On Scientific Designations in Early Modern Images and Objects”
Saturday 28 May
Alchemical Imagery in Seventeenth-Century Europe – Chair: Jennifer M. Rampling
Peter J. Forshaw (University of Amsterdam) – “‘In Contumeliam gloriae Dei’: Rosicrucian Condemnation of Theoalchemy, Culprits and Consequences?”
Didier Kahn (CNRS, Paris) – “Alchemical Eccentricities in a Latin Roman à clef from the mid-Seventeenth Century”
William R. Newman (Indiana University Bloomington) – “Alchemical Illustrations in the Manuscript Corpus of Isaac Newton”
Alchemical Imagery: Past and Present
Donna Bilak (NYU Gallatin) – “Mining, Alchemy, and Environmental Transformation: The Earth as an Alembic”
Leah DeVun (Rutgers University) – “Nonbinary Gender and the Art of Alchemy”
Thursday 26, Friday 27 and Saturday 28 May 2022, 9am–5pm EST
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