The Promise of an Alchemical Panacea: Francis Anthony and his English Potable Gold
For next SHAC seminar, Georgiana Hedesan (Oxford University) will give a talk entitled “The Promise of an Alchemical Panacea: Francis Anthony (1550-1623) and his English Potable Gold”. Thursday 21 January […]
An Experimental Inquisition: Early Modern Medicine and Alchemy
For the Fourteenth Annual Harvard-Princeton Graduate Conference in Early Modern History, Hannah Marcus (Harvard University) and Jennifer Rampling (Princeton University) will present their work on early modern medicine and alchemy, […]
Early American Reception of 17th-Century Alchemical Texts
The next SHAC Seminar (Society for the History of Alchemy and Chemistry) will host Megan Piorko on “The Long Life of Fasciculus Chemicus: Early American Reception of Seventeenth-century Alchemical Texts”. […]
Resurrections of Plants and Palingenesis in Early Modern England
For next Plants in Early Modern Knowledge seminar (Ca’ Foscari University of Venice), Antonio Clericuzio (University Roma Tre) will give a talk on “Experiments with the Resurrections of Plants: Palingenesis […]
Alchemy, Experiment and English History
The next Philosophical Café will host Jennifer Rampling (Princeton University) for her new book The Experimental Fire: Inventing English Alchemy, 1300-1700 (Chicago University Press, 2020), in conversation with Georgiana Hedesan […]
Visualizing Monsters in the Early Modern Sciences
For its Workshop on Renaissance and Early Modern Studies, Princeton Humanities Council will host Surekha Davies (Utrecht University) on “Life on the Edge: Imaginative Prototyping and Sea Monsters in Early […]
What Do We Learn from Recreating Experiments?
The next Philosophical Café (University of Bucharest) will host a panel discussion on experimental history, a growing field of research that focusses on recreating past experiments, recipes and objects, with […]
Plants in Early Modern Natural Philosophy
The next Princeton–Bucharest Seminar in Early Modern Philosophy will host Oana Matei (Vasile Goldis Western University of Arad) and Fabrizio Baldassarri (Ca’ Foscari University of Venice) on “Plants in Early […]
Poison Trials in Renaissance Science
For next UC Davis Early Science Workshop, Alisha Rankin (Tufts University) will talk about her new book, The Poison Trials: Wonder Drugs, Experiment, and the Battle for Authority in Renaissance […]
Discerning the Alchemical in the Potter’s Art
For next Fellow in Focus lecture series (Science History Institute), Bruce Moran will give a talk on “The Thing about Alchemy: Secrets, Mixtures, and Discerning the Alchemical in the Potter’s […]