Reconstruction of Chemical Experiments as a Historical Method
The next Virtual HistSTM activities include a reading session on the history of chemistry. Tillmann Taape (Columbia University) will discuss the ways in which hands–on reconstruction can be useful as […]
Virtual Book Launch: Furnace and Fugue
Virtual Book Launch for Furnace and Fugue: A Digital Edition of Michael Maier’s “Atalanta fugiens” (1618) with Scholarly Commentary. This open-access digital book, which Tara Nummedal (Brown University) and Donna […]
ESHS – Visual, Material and Sensory Cultures of Science
Because of the current pandemic it is no longer possible to hold the 9th ESHS Conference (European Society for the History of Science) live in Bologna, the Organizing and Scientific […]
Alchemy behind Bars: Practitioners, Patrons, and Prisons in Early Modern Europe
The next on-line seminar of the Society for the History of Alchemy and Chemistry (SHAC) will be given by Jennifer Rampling (Princeton University) on “Alchemy behind Bars”. This talk explores […]
A Digital Edition of Michael Maier’s “Atalanta fugiens”
For its Work in Progress Seminar Series, the Warburg Institute will host Donna Bilak (Independent Scholar), Loren Ludwig (Independent Scholar) and Tara Nummedal (Brown University) about a new open access […]
Furnace and Fugue: An Alchemical Happy Hour
The Fellow in Focus online lecture series (Science History Institute) gives the Institute’s scholars an opportunity to present their work to a broad audience interested in history, science, and culture. […]
Newton the Alchemist
For the next Philosophical Cafe – Cafeneaua Filosofica (Bucharest), the author of Newton the Alchemist: Science, Enigma, and the Quest for Nature’s “Secret Fire” (Princeton UP, 2019), William R. Newman […]
Alchemy in Byzantium: A Research Field on the Rise
The workshop is an activity of the research project “Alchemy in Byzantium” of the Institute of Historical Research, National Hellenic Research Foundation (coordinator: Gerasimos Merianos). It is also the first […]
Furnace and Fugue
For the next online lecture at The Grolier Club (NY), Tara Nummedal (Brown University) will speak on Furnace and Fugue, a digital edition of Michael Maier’s 17th-century Atalanta fugiens with […]
Magic, Science, and Religion in Early Modern Europe
Virtual talk organized by Cambridge University Press for its Winter History Festival. Mark A. Waddell (Michigan State University) and Allison Kavey (CUNY) discuss the rich and complex ways that premodern […]