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Robert Mond The Study of Alchemy . . . . . . . . . . 1--2
J. R. Partington Albertus Magnus on Alchemy . . . . . . . 3--20
Julius Ruska Methods Of Research in the History of
Chemistry . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21--29
F. Sherwood Taylor The Origins of Greek Alchemy . . . . . . 30--47
Gerard Heym An Introduction to The Bibliography of
Alchemy --- Part I . . . . . . . . . . . 48--60
J. R. Partington Report Of Discussion upon Chemical and
Alchemical Symbolism . . . . . . . . . . 61--77
Gerard Heym The \booktitleAurea Catena Homeri . . . 78--83
Anonymous Reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 84--87
F. Sherwood Taylor The Visions Of Zosimos . . . . . . . . . 88--92
D. J. Lysaght Hooke's Theory of Combustion . . . . . . 93--108
Tenney L. Davis and
Rokuro Nakaseko The Tomb of Jofuku or Joshi, the
Earliest Alchemist of Historical Record 109--115
F. Sherwood Taylor The Alchemical Works of Stephanos of
Alexandria . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 116--139
Anonymous Reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 140--141
Douglas McKie Some Early Work on Combustion,
Respiration and Calcination . . . . . . 143--165
A. F. Titley Paracelsus. A Résumé of Some Controversies 166--183
Gerard Heym Al-Razi and Alchemy . . . . . . . . . . 184--191
J. R. Partington The Chemistry of Razi . . . . . . . . . 192--196
Gerard Heym An Alchemical Journal of the Eighteenth
Century . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 197--199
Anonymous Author Index . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 201--201
Anonymous Subject Index . . . . . . . . . . . . . 202--202
Robert Mond Introduction to the Second Volume . . . 1--2
R. Campbell Thompson A Survey of the Chemistry of Assyria in
the Seventh Century B.C. . . . . . . . . 3--16
Richard B. Pilcher `Boyle's Laboratory' . . . . . . . . . . 17--20
Edmund O. von Lippmann Some Remarks on Hermes and Hermetica . . 21--25
Lynn Thorndike Alchemy During the First Half of the
Sixteenth Century . . . . . . . . . . . 26--38
F. Sherwood Taylor The Alchemical Works of Stephanos of
Alexandria . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39--49
Anonymous Reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 50--51
J. R. Partington Trithemius and Alchemy . . . . . . . . . 53--59
John Read Alchemy Under James IV of Scotland . . . 60--67
R. J. Forbes Petroleum and Bitumen in Antiquity . . . 68--92
Joshua C. Gregory Chemistry and Alchemy in the Natural
Philosophy of Sir Francis Bacon,
1561--1626 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 93--111
Anonymous Reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 112--113
Edmund O. von Lippmann Chemical and Technological References in
Plutarch . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1--14
C. A. Browne Rhetorical and Religious Aspects of
Greek Alchemy . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15--25
Denis Duveen \booktitleLe Livre de la Tr\`es Sainte
Trinité . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26--32
T. P. Sherlock The Chemical Work of Paracelsus . . . . 33--63
Anonymous Review . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 64--67
H. E. Stapleton and
G. L. Lewis and
F. Sherwood Taylor The Sayings of Hermes Quoted in the
\booktitleMa Al-Waraqi of Ibn Umail of
ibn Umail . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 69--90
C. H. Josten Truth's Golden Harrow: an Unpublished
Alchemical Treatise of Robert Fludd in
the Bodleian Library . . . . . . . . . . 91--150
Anonymous Reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 151--152
C. H. Josten William Backhouse of Swallowfield . . . 1--33
C. H. Josten The Text of John Dastin's
`\booktitleLetter to Pope John XXII' . . 34--51
John William Shirley The Scientific Experiments of Sir Walter
Raleigh, the Wizard Earl, and the Three
Magi in the Tower 1603--1617 . . . . . . 52--66
F. Sherwood Taylor Alchemical Papers of Dr. Robert Plot . . 67--76
F. Sherwood Taylor A Pair of Alchemical Ivory Figures . . . 77--78
Anonymous Reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 79--80
J. W. Fück The Arabic Literature on Alchemy
According to an-Nadim (A.D. 987) . . . . 81--144
Egon Wellesz Music in the Treatises of Greek Gnostics
and Alchemists . . . . . . . . . . . . . 145--158
Anonymous Review . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 159--159
H. E. Stapleton The Antiquity of Alchemy . . . . . . . . 1--43
F. Sherwood Taylor and
C. H. Josten Johannes Banfi Hunyades 1576--1650 . . . 44--52
Anonymous Reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 53--57
E. J. Holmyard Obituary: Frank Sherwood Taylor
(1897--1956) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 57--58
F. Sherwood Taylor An Alchemical Work of Sir Isaac Newton 59--84
Lynn Thorndike Some Alchemical Manuscripts at Bologna
and Florence . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 85--110
E. Seaton Thomas Hariot's Secret Script . . . . . 111--114
F. Sherwood Taylor and
C. H. Josten Johannes Banfi Hunyades . . . . . . . . 115--115
Procopios D. Zacharias Chymeutike: The Real Hellenic Chemistry 116--128
Anonymous Reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 129--130
H. E. Stapleton The Gnomon . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1--9
D. Geoghegan A Licence of Henry VI to Practise
Alchemy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10--17
W. A. Smeaton L. B. Guyton De Morveau (1737--1816): A
Bibliographical Study . . . . . . . . . 18--34
Martin Levey Tanning Technology in Ancient
Mesopotamia . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35--46
Anonymous Reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 47--58
J. Reidy Thomas Norton and the \booktitleOrdinall
of Alchimy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 59--85
H. J. Sheppard Gnosticism and Alchemy . . . . . . . . . 86--101
D. Geoghegan Some Indications of Newton's Attitude
Towards Alchemy . . . . . . . . . . . . 102--106
Leontine Goldschmidt The Symbolic Meaning of Fahrenheit's
Temperature Scale . . . . . . . . . . . 107--108
Anonymous Reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 109--111
F. W. Gibbs Boerhaave's Chemical Writings . . . . . 117--135
Douglas McKie On Five Hitherto Unrecorded Copies of
Jean Rey's \booktitleEssays . . . . . . 136--139
H. J. Sheppard Egg Symbolism in Alchemy . . . . . . . . 140--148
Martin Levey Research Sources in Ancient Mesopotamian
Chemistry . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 149--154
N. H. de V. Heathcote Letters to the Editor . . . . . . . . . 155--156
Anonymous Reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 157--163
Anonymous Publications Received . . . . . . . . . 164--164
Lynn Thorndike Some Medieval Texts on Colours . . . . . 1--24
Dorothea Waley Singer On a 16th Century Cartoon Concerning the
Devilish Weapon of Gunpowder: Some
Medieval Reactions to Guns and
Gunpowder: Some Medieval Reactions to
Guns and Gunpowder . . . . . . . . . . . 25--33
Lynn Thorndike Uncatalogued Texts in Ms. All Souls
College 81, Oxford . . . . . . . . . . . 34--41
H. J. Sheppard The Redemption Theme and Hellenistic
Alchemy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42--46
W. A. Smeaton F.-J. Bonjour and His Translation of
Bergman's ``\booktitleDisquisitio De
Attractionibus Electivis'' . . . . . . . 47--50
Anonymous Reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 51--53
Ho Ping-Yü and
Joseph Needham, F. R. S. The Laboratory Equipment of the Early
Mediæval Chinese Alchemists . . . . . . . 58--112
Anonymous Reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 116--117
Ts'ao T'ien-Ch'in and
Ho Ping-Yü and
Joseph Needham An Early Mediaeval Chinese Alchemical
Text on Aqueous Solutions . . . . . . . 121--155
M. Plessner The \booktitleTurba Philosophorum: a
Preliminary Report on Three Cambridge
Mss . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 159--163
Karl Frick The Rediscovered Original MS.
``\booktitleHehrenrettung Der Alchymie''
of the Tübingen Alchemist Johann Conrad
Creiling (1673--1752) . . . . . . . . . 164--167
D. McK Reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 168--171
D. McKie Obituary: Eric John Holmyard
(1891--1959) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1--5
Lynn Thorndike De Lapidibus . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6--23
F. W. Gibbs Dr. Johnson's First Published Work? . . 24--34
H. J. Sheppard A Survey of Alchemical and Hermetic
Symbolism . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35--41
Roy G. Neville Unrecorded Daltoniana: Two Letters to
John Bostock and a Prospectus to the
``New System'', 1808 . . . . . . . . . . 42--45
Anonymous Reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 46--51
Lynn Thorndike Other Texts on Colours . . . . . . . . . 53--70
Allen G. Debus The Paracelsian Compromise in
Elizabethan England . . . . . . . . . . 71--97
R. A. Horne Atomism in Ancient Greece and India . . 98--110
F. W. Gibbs Itinerant Lecturers in Natural
Philosophy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 111--117
Anonymous Reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 118
Walter Pagel Paracelsus and the Neoplatonic and
Gnostic Tradition . . . . . . . . . . . 125--166
Pearl Kibre Two Alchemical Miscellanies: Vatican
Latin MSS. 4091, 4092 . . . . . . . . . 167--176
Anonymous Reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 177--181
Anonymous Publications Received . . . . . . . . . 182--182
Douglas Mckie Joseph Priestley and The Copley Medal 1--22
Homer H. Dubs The Origin of Alchemy . . . . . . . . . 23--36
Douglas Mckie On Some Pre-Publication Copies of
Lavoisier's \booktitleTraité (1789) . . . 37--46
F. W. Gibbs and
W. A. Smeaton Thomas Beddoes at Oxford . . . . . . . . 47--49
Anonymous Reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 50--52
W. A. Smeaton Guyton De Morveau's Course of Chemistry
in the Dijon Academy . . . . . . . . . . 53--69
J. Read William Davidson of Aberdeen The First
British Professor of Chemistry . . . . . 70--101
Muriel West Notes on the Importance of Alchemy to
Modern Science in the Writings of
Francis Bacon and Robert Boyle . . . . . 102--114
Anonymous Reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 115--116
Walter Pagel The Prime Matter of Paracelsus . . . . . 117--135
Wallace Kirsop The Legend of Bernard Palissy . . . . . 136--154
Mohamed Yahia Haschmi The Beginning of Arab Alchemy . . . . . 155--161
Allen G. Debus Gabriel Plattes and His Chemical Theory
of the Formation of the Earth's Crust 162--165
Mahmoud Manzalaoui John Dastin and the Pseudo-Aristotelian
\booktitleSecretum, Secretorum . . . . . 166--167
Anonymous Reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 168--170
Walter Pagel The ``Wild Spirit'' (Gas) of John
Baptist Van Helmont (1579--1644) and
Paracelsus . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1--13
Roy G. Neville The ``\booktitlePratique de Chymie'' of
Sébastien Matte La Faveur . . . . . . . . 14--28
Allen G. Debus Sir Thomas Browne and the Study of
Colour Indicators . . . . . . . . . . . 29--36
Anonymous Reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37--39
H. E. Stapleton and
R. F. Azo and
M. Hidayat Husain and
G. L. Lewis Two Alchemical Treatises Attributed to
Avicenna . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41--82
H. J. Sheppard The Ouroboros and the Unity of Matter in
Alchemy: A Study in Origins . . . . . . 83--96
D. Geoghegan Gabriel Plattes' Caveat For Alchymists 97--102
Anonymous Reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 103--105
Allen G. Debus John Woodall, Paracelsian Surgeon . . . 108--118
Philip Pomper Lomonosov and the Discovery of the Law
of the Conservation of Matter in
Chemical Transformations . . . . . . . . 119--127
Ronald Sterne Wilkinson New England's Last Alchemists . . . . . 128--138
Anonymous Reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 139--149
Anonymous Editorial . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ??
C. H. Josten Robert Fludd's ``Philosophicall Key''
and His Alchemical Experiment on Wheat 1--23
P. M. Ratiansi Paracelsus and the Puritan Revolution 24--32
Ronald Sterne Wilkinson The Alchemical Library of John Winthrop,
Jr. (1606--1676) and His Descendants in
Colonial America . . . . . . . . . . . . 33--51
Anonymous Reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 52--53
W. A. Smeaton Guyton De Morveau and Chemical Affinity 55--64
John Warwick Montgomery Cross, Constellation, and Crucible:
Lutheran Astrology and Alchemy in the
Age of the Reformation . . . . . . . . . 65--86
Lynn Thorndike The Pseudo-Galen, \booktitleDe Plantis
(with Latin text of chapters on stones
and those of chemical interest) . . . . 87--94
Lynn Thorndike An Alchemical Manuscript: Klagenfurt,
Bischoöfl. Bibl. XXIX.d.24 . . . . . . . 95--96
Anonymous Reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 97--100
D. McKie Henry Ernest Stapleton (1878--1962) . . 101--104
Walter Böhm John Mayow and His Contemporaries . . . 105--120
Ronald Sterne Wilkinson George Starkey, Physician and Alchemist 121--152
Allen G. Debus A Forgotten Chapter in the Introduction
of the New Chemistry in Italy . . . . . 153--157
Anonymous Reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 158--160
P. M. Rattansi The Helmontian--Galenist Controversy in
Restoration England . . . . . . . . . . 1--23
Ronald Sterne Wilkinson The Problem of the Identity of Eirenaeus
Philalethes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24--43
Harold J. Abrahams Priestley Answers the Proponents of
Abiogenesis . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 44--71
Anonymous Reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 72--82
Anonymous Publications Received . . . . . . . . . 82--82
C. H. Josten A Translation of John Dee's
``\booktitleMonas Hieroglyphica''
(Antwerp, 1564), with an Introduction
and Annotations . . . . . . . . . . . . 84--221
Gareth W. Dunleavy The Chaucer \booktitleAscription in
Trinity College, Dublin MS. D.2.8 . . . 2--21
Marie-Louise von Franz The Idea of the Macro- and Microcosmos
in the Light of Jungian Psychology . . . 22--34
N. A. Figurovski The Alchemist and Physician Arthur Dee
(Artemii Ivanovich Dii): an Episode in
the History of Chemistry and Medicine in
Russia . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35--51
Anonymous Letters to the Editor . . . . . . . . . 52--54
Anonymous Reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 55--60
Rossell Hope Robbins Alchemical Texts in Middle English
Verse: Corrigenda and Addenda . . . . . 62--73
E. McDonald The Collaboration of Bucquet and
Lavoisier . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 74--83
W. A. Smeaton The Portable Chemical Laboratories of
Guyton De Morveau, Cronstedt and Göttling 84--91
Erwin F. Lange Alchemy and the Sixteenth Century
Metallurgists . . . . . . . . . . . . . 92--95
C. Webster Water as the Ultimate Principle of
Nature: the Background to Boyle's
\booktitleSceptical Chymist . . . . . . 96--107
F. W. Gibbs Letters to the Editor . . . . . . . . . 108--117
Anonymous Reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 118--120
P. M. Rattansi Alchemy and Natural Magic in Raleigh's
``History of the World'' . . . . . . . . 122--138
Ronald Sterne Wilkinson The Alchemical Library of John Winthrop,
Jr. (1606--1676) and His Descendants in
Colonial America . . . . . . . . . . . . 139--186
A. A. A. M. Brinkman An Unknown Alchemical Drawing Probably
by David Teniers II . . . . . . . . . . 187--188
Anonymous Reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 189--192
Robert E. Schofield Joseph Priestley, Natural Philosopher 1--15
C. Webster English Medical Reformers of the Puritan
Revolution: a Background to the
``Society of Chymical Physitians'' . . . 16--41
Allen G. Debus Renaissance Chemistry and the Work of
Robert Fludd . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42--59
Anonymous Letters to the Editor . . . . . . . . . 60--62
Anonymous Reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 63--68
Anonymous Publications Received . . . . . . . . . 68--68
J. E. Mcguire Transmutation and Immutability: Newton's
Doctrine of Physical Qualities . . . . . 69--95
O. Hannaway Johann Conrad Barchusen (1666---1723)
--- Contemporary and Rival of Boerhaave 96--111
David F. Larder Alexander Crum Brown and his Doctoral
Thesis of 1861 . . . . . . . . . . . . . 112--132
W. H. Brock The London Chemical Society 1824 . . . . 133--139
Anonymous Reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 140--148
C. Webster Henry Power's Experimental Philosophy 150--178
David M. Knight Steps Towards a Dynamical Chemistry . . 179--197
Ian MacPhail The Mellon Collection of Alchemy and the
Occult . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 198--202
Anonymous Reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 203--211
Allen G. Debus Mathematics and Nature in the Chemical
Texts of the Renaissance . . . . . . . . 1--28
Arnold Thackray ``Matter in a Nut-Shell'': Newton's
\booktitleOpticks and Eighteenth-Century
Chemistry . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29--53
Ronald Sterne Wilkinson The Hartlib Papers and
Seventeenth-Century Chemistry. Part I 54--69
Anonymous Reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 70--72
Anonymous Publications Received . . . . . . . . . 72--72
W. A. Smeaton Is Water Converted into Air? Guyton de
Morveau Acts as Arbiter Between
Priestley and Kirwan . . . . . . . . . . 73--83
John H. Brooke Wöhler's Urea, and its Vital Force? --- A
Verdict from the Chemists . . . . . . . 84--114
Anonymous Letters to the Editor . . . . . . . . . 115--124
Anonymous Reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 125--128
Wyndham D. Miles Public Lectures on Chemistry in the
United States . . . . . . . . . . . . . 131--153
J. E. McGuire Force, Active Principles, and Newton's
Invisible Realm . . . . . . . . . . . . 154--208
Anonymous Reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 209--210
Anonymous Correction to \booktitleAmbix Vol. XV,
Part 1 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 211--211
Satish C. Kapoor Dumas and Organic Classification . . . . 1--65
J. B. Morrell Practical Chemistry in the University of
Edinburgh, 1799--1843 . . . . . . . . . 66--80
W. H. Brock Lockyer and the Chemists: The First
Dissociation Hypothesis . . . . . . . . 81--99
Walter Pagel Chemistry at the Cross-Roads: The Ideas
of Joachim Jungius . . . . . . . . . . . 100--108
Anonymous Reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 109--111
M. Plessner Geber and Jabir ibn Hayyan: an Authentic
Sixteenth-Century Quotation from Jabir 113--118
Walter Pagel and
Marianne Winder The Eightness of Adam and Related
``Gnostic'' Ideas in the Paracelsian
Corpus . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 119--139
C. E. Perrin Prelude to Lavoisier's Theory of
Calcination: Some Observations on
\booktitleMercurius Calcinatus Per Se 140--151
D. C. Goodman Problems in Crystallography in the Early
Nineteenth Century . . . . . . . . . . . 152--166
Gerard Heym Michael Scot . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 167--172
P. M. Rattansi Review . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 173--175
Lee Stavenhagen The Original Text of the Latin
\booktitleMorienus . . . . . . . . . . . 1--12
William R. Shea Galileo's Atomic Hypothesis . . . . . . 13--27
A. M. Duncan The Functions of Affinity Tables and
Lavoisier's List of Elements . . . . . . 28--42
E. L. Scott The ``Macbridean Doctrine'' of Air: An
Eighteenth-Century Explanation of Some
Biochemical Processes, Including
Photosynthesis . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43--57
Anonymous Reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 58--66
Anonymous Short Notices of Books . . . . . . . . . 66--66
Anonymous Publications Received . . . . . . . . . 68--68
H. J. Sheppard Alchemy: Origin or Origins? . . . . . . 69--84
Ronald Sterne Wilkinson The Hartlib Papers and
Seventeenth-Century Chemistry. Part II 85--110
Trevor H. Levere Affinity or Structure: an Early Problem
in Organic Chemistry . . . . . . . . . . 111--126
Anonymous Reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 127--135
Anonymous Short Notices of Books . . . . . . . . . 135--136
Anonymous Publications Received . . . . . . . . . 136--136
Felix Klein-Franke The Knowledge of Aristotle's Lapidary
during the Latin Middle Ages . . . . . . 137--142
Wyndham D. Miles William James Macneven and Early
Laboratory Instruction in the United
States . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 143--152
Jonathan Bentley The Chemical Department of The Royal
School of Mines. Its Origins and
Development Under A. W. Hofmann . . . . 153--181
Seymour H. Mauskopf Haüy's Model of Chemical Equivalence:
Daltonian Doubts Exhumed . . . . . . . . 182--191
Ronald Sterne Wilkinson Reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 192--200
Betty Jo Dobbs Studies in the Natural Philosophy of Sir
Kenelm Digby . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1--25
David F. Larder A Dialectical Consideration of
Butlerov's Theory of Chemical Structure 26--48
Alex G. Keller The Scientific and Technological Sages
of Ancient China . . . . . . . . . . . . 49--55
Anonymous Reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 56--68
N. G. Coley Animal Chemists and Urinary Stone . . . 69--93
Martin Fichman French Stahlism and Chemical Studies of
Air, 1750--1770 . . . . . . . . . . . . 94--122
W. V. Farrar Some Early Ventures in the Fixation of
Atmospheric Nitrogen . . . . . . . . . . 123--138
Anonymous Reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 139--146
Anonymous Books Received . . . . . . . . . . . . . 147--148
Nina Rattner Gelbart The Intellectual Development of Walter
Charleton . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 149--168
Allen G. Debus The History of Chemistry and the History
of Science . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 169--177
N. H. Clulee John Dee's Mathematics and the Grading
of Compound Qualities . . . . . . . . . 178--211
W. A. Smeaton E. F. Geoffroy was not a Newtonian
Chemist . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 212--214
H. J. Sheppard Reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 215--223
J. B. Morrell The Chemist Breeders: The Research
Schools of Liebig and Thomas Thomson . . 1--46
W. H. Brock Text: Liebig's Laboratory Accounts . . . 47--58
Robert Dickinson Letter To Editor Josef Hawliczek . . . . 59--59
Seymour H. Mauskopf Reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 60--67
Lu Gwei-Djen and
Joseph Needham and
Dorothy Needham The Coming of Ardent Water . . . . . . . 69--112
Susan Court The \booktitleAnnales de chimie,
1789--1815 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 113--128
George B. Kauffman The Stereochemistry of Trivalent
Nitrogen Compounds: Alfred Werner and
the Controversy over the Structure of
Oximes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 129--144
Allen G. Debus Some Comments on the Contemporary
Helmontian Renaissance . . . . . . . . . 145--150
Walter Pagel Reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 151--155
Rosaleen Love Some Sources of Herman Boerhaave's
Concept of Fire . . . . . . . . . . . . 157--174
John H. Wolfenden The Anomaly of Strong Electrolytes . . . 175--196
Jonathan Bentley Hofmann's Return to Germany from the
Royal College of Chemistry . . . . . . . 197--203
Ronald S. Wilkinson Further Thoughts on the Identity of
``Eirenaeus Philalethes'' . . . . . . . 204--208
Martin Plessner The History of Arabic Literature . . . . 209--215
Anonymous Gerard Heym, 1888--1972 . . . . . . . . 216--217
Anonymous Reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 218--227
Anonymous Short Notices of Books . . . . . . . . . 227--227
Anonymous Books Received . . . . . . . . . . . . . 228--228
P. M. Heimann ``Nature is a Perpetual Worker'':
Newton's Aether and Eighteenth-Century
Natural Philosophy . . . . . . . . . . . 1--25
Felix Klein-Franke The Geomancy of Ahmad B. 'Ali Zunbul: a
Study of the Arabic \booktitleCorpus
Hermeticum . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26--35
David Oldroyd An Examination of G. E. Stahl's
\booktitlePhilosophical Principles of
Universal Chemistry . . . . . . . . . . 36--52
George B. Kauffman Alfred Werner's Theory of Acids, Bases,
and Hydrolysis . . . . . . . . . . . . . 53--66
Anonymous Reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 67--74
Anonymous Short Notices of Books . . . . . . . . . 74--74
Anonymous Books Received . . . . . . . . . . . . . 75--75
Robert M. Schuler William Blomfild, Elizabethan Alchemist 75--87
H. E. Le Grand A Note on Fixed Air: The Universal Acid 88--94
C. E. Perrin Lavoisier's Table of the Elements: a
Reappraisal . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 95--105
N. W. Fisher Organic Classification Before Kekulé . . 106--131
Anonymous Reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 132--140
Anonymous Short Notices of Books . . . . . . . . . 140--141
Anonymous Books Received . . . . . . . . . . . . . 142--142
Betty Jo Dobbs Studies in the Natural Philosophy of Sir
Kenelm Digby. Part II. Digby and Alchemy 143--163
Chiara Crisciani The Conception of Alchemy as Expressed
in the \booktitlePretiosa Margarita
Novella of Petrus Bonus of Ferrara . . . 165--181
W. V. Farrar and
Kathleen R. Farrar and
E. L. Scottt The Henrys of Manchester. Part I: Thomas
Henry (1734--1816) . . . . . . . . . . . 183--208
N. W. Fisher Organic Classification Before Kekulé:
Part II . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 209--233
Ronald Sterne Wilkinson Some Bibliographical Puzzles Concerning
George Starkey . . . . . . . . . . . . . 235--244
Karin Figala Letter to the Editor Project For
Cataloguing Alchemical Manuscripts In
German-Speaking Areas . . . . . . . . . 245--246
H. M. E. Dejong Reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 246--250
Betty Jo Dobbs Studies in the Natural Philosophy of Sir
Kenelm Digby. Part III. Digby's
Experimental Alchemy --- \booktitleThe
Book of \em Secrets . . . . . . . . . . 1--28
N. W. Fisher Kekulé and Organic Classification . . . . 29--52
Thaddeus J. Trenn The Justification of Transmutation:
Speculations of Ramsay and Experiments
of Rutherford . . . . . . . . . . . . . 53--77
David M. Knight Chemistry in Palaeontology: The Work of
James Parkinson (1755--1824) . . . . . . 78--85
Anonymous Reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 86--89
Anonymous Short Notices of Books . . . . . . . . . 89--90
Anonymous Books Received . . . . . . . . . . . . . 91--91
Walter Pagel and
Marianne Winder The Higher Elements and Prime Matter in
Renaissance Naturalism and in Paracelsus 93--127
D. R. Oldroyd Some Neo-Platonic and Stoic Influences
on Mineralogy in the Sixteenth and
Seventeenth Centuries . . . . . . . . . 128--156
D. R. Oldroyd and
D. R. Oldroyd Mechanical Mineralogy . . . . . . . . . 157--178
W. V. Farrar and
Kathleen R. Farrar and
E. L. Scott The Henrys of Manchester: Part 2. Thomas
Henry's Sons: Thomas, Peter and William 179--207
W. V. Farrar and
Kathleen R. Farrar and
E. L. Scott The Henrys of Manchester: Part 3.
William Henry and John Dalton . . . . . 208--246
Henry M. Leicester Lomonosov's Views on Combustion and
Phlogiston . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1--9
Luther H. Martin, Jr. A History of the Psychological
Interpretation of Alchemy . . . . . . . 10--20
Geoffrey Bowles John Harris and the Powers of Matter . . 21--38
Juke Z. Fullmer Davy's Priority in the Iodine Dispute:
Further Documentary Evidence . . . . . . 39--51
Robert E. Kohler Lavoisier's Rediscovery of the Air from
Mercury Calx: a Reinterpretation . . . . 52--57
H. E. Le Grand The ``Conversion'' of C.-L. Berthollet
to Lavoisier's Chemistry . . . . . . . . 58--70
Anonymous Essay Review: \booktitleChinese Science.
Explorations of an Ancient Tradition.
Ed. by Shigeru Nakayama and Nathan
Sivin. Pp. xxxvii + 334. Cambridge, Mass
& London: M.I.T. Press. 1973 . . . . . . 71--73
Anonymous Reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 74--79
Anonymous Short Notices of Books . . . . . . . . . 79--80
Anonymous Books Received . . . . . . . . . . . . . 80--80
Graham Rees Francis Bacon's Semi-Paracelsian
Cosmology . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 81--101
C. R. Hill The Iconography of the Laboratory . . . 102--110
Lynn Veach Sadler Alchemy and Greene's \booktitleFriar
Bacon and Friar Bungay . . . . . . . . . 111--124
A. R. Williams The Production of Saltpetre in the
Middle Ages . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 125--133
Wolf Dieter Müller-Jahncke The Attitude of Agrippa von Nettesheim
(1486--1535) Towards Alchemy . . . . . . 134--150
W. V. Farrar Examination of some compounds isolated
from madder, 1845--1855 . . . . . . . . 151--153
Michael McVaugh The ``Venable Collection'' in the
History of Chemistry at the University
of North Carolina . . . . . . . . . . . 154--155
Anonymous Reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 156--158
Anonymous Short Notices . . . . . . . . . . . . . 159--159
Anonymous Books Received . . . . . . . . . . . . . 160--160
Graham Rees Francis Bacon's Semi-Paracelsian
Cosmology and the \em Great Instauration 161--173
Richard S. Westfall Isaac Newton's \booktitleIndex Chemicus 174--185
W. V. Farrar and
Kathleen R. Farrar and
E. L. Scott The Henrys of Manchester. Part 4:
William Henry: Hydrocarbons and the Gas
Industry: Minor Chemical Papers . . . . 186--204
Peter Collins Humphry Davy and Heterogeneous Catalysis 205--217
Robert P. Multhauf Aurifiction, Aurifaction and
Macrobiotics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 218--220
H. J. Sheppard Reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 221--222
Henry Guerlac The Chemical Revolution: a Word from
Monsieur Fourcroy . . . . . . . . . . . 1--4
D. M. Knight The Vital Flame . . . . . . . . . . . . 5--15
M. A. Sutton Spectroscopy and the Chemists: a
Neglected Opportunity? . . . . . . . . . 16--26
W. V. Farrar and
Kathleen R. Farrar and
E. L. Scott The Henrys of Manchester: Part 5:
William Henry: Contagion and Cholera;
The Textbook . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27--52
Edmund Brehm Roger Bacon's Place in the History of
Alchemy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 53--58
N. G. Coley Reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 59--64
Jost Weyer The Image of Alchemy in Nineteenth and
Twentieth Century Histories of Chemistry 65--79
Robert Ward What Forced by Fire: Concerning Some
Influences of Chemical Thought and
Practice Upon English Poetry . . . . . . 80--95
Peter Collins Johann Wolfgang Döbereiner and
Heterogeneous Catalysis . . . . . . . . 96--115
Michael T. Walton John Dee's \booktitleMonas
Hieroglyphica: Geometrical Cabala . . . 116--123
Allen G. Debus Reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 124--127
S. Mahdihassan Early Terms for Elixir Hitherto
Unrecognized in Greek Alchemy . . . . . 129--133
J. E. Bolzan Chemical Combination According to
Aristotle . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 134--144
Owen Hannaway The German Model of Chemical Education
in America: Ira Remsen at Johns Hopkins
(1876--1913) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 145--164
Sheldon J. Kopperl T. W. Richards' Role in American
Graduate Education in Chemistry . . . . 165--174
John W. Servos The Knowledge Corporation: A. A. Noyes
and Chemistry at Cal-Tech, 1915--1930 175--186
V. A. Golovnya and
T. N. Leonova and
Wayne Craig and
George B. Kauffman Il'ya Il'ich Chernyaev (1893--1966):
Some Recollections of his Work and
Personality . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 187--198
E. R. Ward Letter to the Editor Industrial Mixed
Acid Nitration . . . . . . . . . . . . . 199--200
Trevor I. Williams Reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 201--206
W. V. Farrar and
Kathleen R. Farrar and
E. L. Scott The Henrys of Manchester. Part 6.
William Charles Henry: The Magnesia
Factory . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1--26
Graham Rees The Fate of Bacon's Cosmology in the
Seventeenth Century . . . . . . . . . . 27--38
Stanton J. Linden Jonson and Sendivogius: Some New Light
on \booktitleMercury Vindicated from the
Alchemists at Court . . . . . . . . . . 39--54
Thomas W. Hayes Alchemical Imagery in John Donne's
``\booktitleA Nocturnall Upon S. Lucies
Day'' . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 55--62
Harris L. Coulter Letters to the Reviews Editor . . . . . 63--68
Lynn Veach Sadler Relations Between Alchemy and Poetics in
the Renaissance and Seventeenth Century,
with Special Glances at Donne and Milton 69--76
S. Foster Damon De Brahm: Alchemist . . . . . . . . . . 77--88
Mel Gorman A Survey of the Chemical Translations of
John Fryer in Nineteenth-Century China 89--95
John H. Appleby Arthur Dee and Johannes Bánfi Hunyades:
Further Information on their Alchemical
and Professional Activities . . . . . . 96--109
Graham Rees Matter Theory: a Unifying Factor in
Bacon's Natural Philosophy? . . . . . . 110--125
H. J. Sheppard Reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 126--132
S. Mahdihassan Elixirs of Mineral Orgin in Greek
Alchemy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 133--142
W. A. Campbell The Chemical Library of Thomas Britton
(1654--1714) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 143--148
W. A. Smeaton Berthollet's \booktitleEssai de Statique
Chimique and its Translations: a
Bibliographical Note and a Daltonian
Doubt . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 149--158
Otto Sonntag Religion and Science in the Thought of
Liebig . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 159--169
George Gomori New Information on Janos Banfihunyadi's
Life . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 170--174
Anonymous Reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 175--184
Anonymous Short Notices of Books . . . . . . . . . 184--186
Anonymous Index . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 186--188
John G. McEvoy Joseph Priestley, ``Aerial
Philosopher'': Metaphysics and
Methodology In Priestley's Chemical
Thought, From 1762 to 1781. Part 1 . . . 1--55
Z. E. Gel'man Bernhard Tollens and His Influence on
Research into Carbohydrates in Russia 56--62
P. M. Rattansi Reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 63--68
William H. Huffman and
Robert A. Seelinger Robert Fludd's ``\booktitleDeclaratio
Brevis'' To James I . . . . . . . . . . 69--92
John G. McEvoy Joseph Priestley, ``Aerial
Philosopher'': Metaphysics and
Methodology in Priestley's Chemical
Thought, From 1772 To 1781. Part II . . 93--116
Theron Cole Dalton, Mixed Gases, and the Origin of
the Chemical Atomic Theory . . . . . . . 117--130
William M. Sudduth Eighteenth-Century Identifications of
Electricity with Phlogiston . . . . . . 131--147
A. G. Keller Reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 148--152
John G. McEvoy Joseph Priestley, ``Aerial
Philosopher'': Metaphysics and
Methodology in Priestley's Chemical
Thought, from 1772 to 1781. Part III . . 153--175
Arthur Donovan James Hutton, Joseph Black and the
Chemical Theory of Heat . . . . . . . . 176--190
George B. Kauffman and
Paul M. Priebe The Discovery of Saccharin: a Centennial
Retrospect . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 191--207
Peta Dewar Buchanan and
J. F. Gibson and
Marie Boas Hall Experimental History of Science: Boyle's
Colour Changes . . . . . . . . . . . . . 208--210
W. A. Smeaton Berthollet's \booktitleEssai de Statique
Chimique: a Supplementary Note . . . . . 211--212
Vladimír Karpenko Reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 213--222
John H. Appleby Some of Arthur Dee's Associations Before
Visiting Russia Clarified, Including Two
Letters from Sir Theodore Mayerne . . . 1--15
John G. Mcevoy Joseph Priestley, ``Aerial
Philosopher'': Metaphysics and
Methodology in Priestley's Chemical
Thought, from 1772 to 1781. Part IV . . 16--38
Susan Court and
W. A. Smeaton Fourcroy and the \booktitleJournal de la
Société des pharmaciens de Paris . . . . . 39--55
Allan Pritchard Thomas Charnock's Book Dedicated to
Queen Elizabeth . . . . . . . . . . . . 56--73
Kathleen R. Farrar Reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 74--80
François Secret Palingenesis, Alchemy and Metempsychosis
in Renaissance Medicine . . . . . . . . 81--92
Harold J. Abrahams A Thirteenth-Century Portuguese Work on
Manuscript Illumination
(``\booktitleLibro De Como Se Facem as
Cores'') . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 93--99
Philip A. W. Dean and
Melvyn C. Usselman The `Synthetic' Palladium of Richard
Chenevix: A Verdict on the Chemist and
the Chemistry . . . . . . . . . . . . . 100--115
H. A. M. Snelders The Amsterdam Experiment on the Analysis
and Synthesis of Water (1789) . . . . . 116--133
Thaddeus J. Trenn Rutherford's \em Radio-Activity and
Alpha Ray Research: The Case of a
Misdated Letter . . . . . . . . . . . . 134--136
C. E. Perrin Reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 137--144
B. L. T. Dobbs Newton's Copy of ``\booktitleSecrets
Reveal'd'' and the Regimens of the Work 145--169
Carolyn Merchant The Vitalism of Francis Mercury Van
Helmont: Its Influence on Leibniz . . . 170--183
Alice Stroup Wilhelm Homberg and the Search for the
Constituents of Plants at the
17th-Century Academie Royale des
Sciences . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 184--201
Graham Rees Francis Bacon on Verticity and the
Bowels of the Earth . . . . . . . . . . 202--211
Noel L. Brann George Ripley and the Abbot Trithemius:
an Inquiry into Contrasting Medical
Attitudes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 212--220
Leslie B. Hunt The Figuiers of Montpellier . . . . . . 221--223
H. J. Sheppard Reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 224--230
Reinhard Löw The Progress of Organic Chemistry during
the Period of German Romantic
Naturphilosophie (1795--1825) . . . . . 1--10
Michael T. Walton Boyle and Newton on the Transmutation of
Water and Air, from the Root of
Helmont's Tree . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11--18
Ramón Gago and
Juan L. Carrillo A Bibliographical Study of the Reception
of Lavoisier's Work in Spain. Addenda to
\booktitleA Bibliography By Duveen and
Klickstein . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19--25
William M. Sudduth The Voltaic Pile and Electro-Chemical
Theory in 1800 . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26--35
Arlene Miller Guinsburg Henry More, Thomas Vaughan and the Late
Renaissance Magical Tradition . . . . . 36--58
W. H. Brock Reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 59--68
Anthony R. Butler and
Joseph Needham An Experimental Comparison of the East
Asian, Hellenistic, and Indian
(Gandharan) Stills in Relation to the
Distillation of Ethanol and Acetic Acid 69--76
V. Karpenko The Discovery of Supposed New Elements:
Two Centuries of Errors . . . . . . . . 77--102
Robert K. DeKosky George Gabriel Stokes, Arthur Smithells
and the Origin of Spectra in Flames . . 103--123
Allen G. Debus Thomas Sherley's \booktitlePhilosophical
Essay (1672): Helmontian Mechanism as
the Basis of a New Philosophy . . . . . 124--135
Robert H. Goldsmith Origins of the So-Called Dewar Benzene
Formula . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 136--141
Crosbie Smith Reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 142--146
Mario A. Morselli The Manuscript of Avogadro's
``\booktitleEssai d'une Mani\`ere de
Déterminer Les Masses Relatives des
Molécules Élémentaires'' . . . . . . . . . 147--172
Donovan Chilton and
Noel G. Coley The Laboratories of the Royal
Institution in the Nineteenth Century 173--203
William Eamon New Light on Robert Boyle and the
Discovery of Colour Indicators . . . . . 204--209
Anonymous Reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 210--214
Janis Langins The Decline of Chemistry at the École
Polytechnique (1794--1805) . . . . . . . 1--19
B. I. Kronberg and
L. L. Coatsworth and
M. C. Usselman The Artifact as Historical Document.
Part 2: The Palladium and Rhodium of W.
H. Wollaston . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20--35
Allen G. Debus The Paracelsians in Eighteenth Century
France: A Renaissance Tradition in the
Age of the Enlightenment . . . . . . . . 36--54
H. J. Sheppard Reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 55--60
Trevor H. Levere Dr. Thomas Beddoes at Oxford: Radical
Politics in 1788--1793 and the Fate of
the Regius Chair in Chemistry . . . . . 61--69
M. Christine King Experiments with Time: Progress and
Problems in the Development of Chemical
Kinetics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 70--82
A. M. Duncan Styles of Language and Modes of Chemical
Thought . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 83--107
W. H. Brock Reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 108--120
Richard F. Hirsh A Conflict of Principles: The Discovery
of Argon and the Debate over Its
Existence . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 121--130
Frank A. J. L. James The Letters of William Crookes to
Charles Hanson Greville Williams
1861--2: The Detection and Isolation of
Thallium . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 131--157
Maurice Crosland The Library of Gay-Lussac . . . . . . . 158--170
William H. Brock and
K. A. Jensen and
Christian Klixbüll Jòrgensen and
George B. Kauffman The Origin and Dissemination of the Term
``Ligand'' in Chemistry . . . . . . . . 171--183
J. A. Chaldecott Wedgwood's Ceramic Wares for Chemical
Use Production and Supply from 1779 to
1794 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 184--205
Richard C. Jennings Lavoisier's Views on Phlogiston and the
Matter of Fire before about 1770 . . . . 206--209
H. J. Sheppard Reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 210--217
Elizabeth B. Welles The Unpublished Alchemical Sonnets of
Felice Feliciano: an Episode in Science
and Humanism in 15th Century Italy . . . 1--16
Mikulás Teich Circulation, Transformation,
Conservation of Matter and the Balancing
of the Biological World in the
Eighteenth Century . . . . . . . . . . . 17--28
Robert Siegfried Lavoisier's Table of Simple Substances:
Its Origin and Interpretation . . . . . 29--48
M. Christine King Experiments with Time: Progress and
Problems in the Development of Chemical
Kinetics. Part 2 . . . . . . . . . . . . 49--61
B. J. T. Dobbs Essay Review: \booktitleNever at Best. A
Biography of Isaac Newton. By Richard S.
Westfall. Pp. xviii + 908, with many
illustrations. Cambridge, London, New
York, etc.: Cambridge University Press.
1981. \pounds 25. ISBN 0-521-23143-4 . . 62--68
Paul Plass A Greek Alchemical Formula . . . . . . . 69--73
Sami K. Hamarneh Arabic--Islamic Alchemy --- Three
Intertwined Stages . . . . . . . . . . . 74--87
Homer E. Le Grand Chemistry in a Provincial Context: The
Montpellier Société Royale des Sciences in
the Eighteenth Century . . . . . . . . . 88--105
Jerry B. Gough Some Early References to Revolutions in
Chemistry . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 106--109
Francesco Trevisani Reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 110--124
William Newman Thomas Vaughan as an Interpreter of
Agrippa Von Nettesheim . . . . . . . . . 125--140
C. E. Perrin A Reluctant Catalyst: Joseph Black and
the Edinburgh Reception of Lavoisier's
Chemistry . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 141--176
Raphael Patai Maria the Jewess --- Founding Mother of
Alchemy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 177--197
B. J. T. Dobbs Newton's ``Clavis'': New Evidence on Its
Dating and Significance . . . . . . . . 198--202
C. Webster Reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 203--206
Anonymous European Museums of the History of
Chemistry . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 207--207
Alan J. Rocke Subatomic Speculations and the Origin of
Structure Theory . . . . . . . . . . . . 1--18
Jan V. Golinski Peter Shaw: Chemistry and Communication
in Augustan England . . . . . . . . . . 19--29
Frank A. J. L. James The Establishment of Spectro-Chemical
Analysis as a Practical Method of
Qualitative Analysis, 1854--1861 . . . . 30--53
Marianne Winder Reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 54--64
George B. Kauffman The Mystery of Stephen H. Emmens:
Successful Alchemist or Ingenious
Swindler? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 65--88
J. B. Gough Lavoisier's Memoirs on the Nature of
Water and their Place in the Chemical
Revolution . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 89--106
Mel Gorman Sir William B. O'Shaughnessy, Pioneer
Chemical Educator in India . . . . . . . 107--116
Michael A. Sutton Editorial Announcement . . . . . . . . . 116--116
N. G. Coley Reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 117--120
Christoph Meinel Theory or Practice? The
Eighteenth-Century Debate on the
Scientific Status of Chemistry . . . . . 121--132
John H. Wotiz and
Susanna Rudofsky Kekulé or Kekule? . . . . . . . . . . . . 133--136
Frank A. J. L. James The Study of Spark Spectra 1835--1859 137--162
Anonymous The Dexter Awards . . . . . . . . . . . 162--162
Walter Pagel Reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 163--168
C. E. Perrin J. B. Van Mons' \booktitleEssai sur les
principes de la chimie antiphlogistique:
a Mystery Solved . . . . . . . . . . . . 1--5
Ilana Zinguer Alchemy, ``locus'' of Renewal for
Writing in the \booktitleMoyen de
Parvenir of Béroalde de Verville (1610) 6--15
M. Christine King The Course of Chemical Change: the Life
and Times of Augustus G. Vernon Harcourt
(1834--1919) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16--31
Noel G. Coley The Preparation and Uses of Artificial
Mineral Waters (ca. 1680--1825) . . . . 32--48
Anonymous The Partington Prize . . . . . . . . . . 48--48
Allen G. Debus Reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 49--56
Leslie B. Hunt and
Peta D. Buchanan Richard Knight (1768--1844): a Forgotten
Chemist and Apparatus Designer . . . . . 57--67
Edward Ward The Death of Charles Blachford Mansfield
(1819--1855) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 68--69
Dominik Wujastyk An Alchemical Ghost: The
\booktitleRasaratnâkara by Nâgârjuna . . . 70--83
Harold J. Abrahams Al-Jawbari on False Alchemists . . . . . 84--88
Anonymous The Society for The History of Alchemy
and Chemistry: Winter Meeting . . . . . 88--89
W. H. Brock Reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 90--96
Richard S. Westfall Alchemy in Newton's Library . . . . . . 97--101
Stanton J. Linden Alchemy and Eschatology in
Seventeenth-Century Poetry . . . . . . . 102--124
Rainer E. Zimmermann The Structure of Mythos: on The Cultural
Stability of Alchemy . . . . . . . . . . 125--137
Anonymous Bibliotheca Philosophica Hermetica . . . 137--137
G. C. Rees Reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 138--144
Allen G. Debus The Significance of Chemical History . . 1--14
S. B. Sinclair Crookes and Radioactivity: from
Inorganic Evolution to Atomic
Transmutation . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15--31
H. J. Sheppard Chinese and Western Alchemy: The Link
Through Definition . . . . . . . . . . . 32--37
A. J. Rocke Agricola, Paracelsus, and ``Chymia'' . . 38--45
Anonymous 300 Years of Chemistry at Louvain ---
1685--1985 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 45--45
Robert Ward Reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 46--52
Frank A. J. L. James The Discovery of Line Spectra . . . . . 53--70
James W. Llana A Contribution of Natural History to the
Chemical Revolution in France . . . . . 71--91
Anonymous The Partington Prize . . . . . . . . . . 91--91
H. J. Sheppard Reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 92--96
A. J. A. De Gouveia Vicente De Seabra and the Chemical
Revolution in Portugal . . . . . . . . . 97--109
Bruce T. Moran Privilege, Communication, and Chemiatry:
the Hermetic--Alchemical Circle of
Moritz of Hessen-Kassel . . . . . . . . 110--126
Noel L. Brann Alchemy and Melancholy in Medieval and
Renaissance Thought: a Query into the
Mystical Basis of their Relationship . . 127--148
Anonymous The Dexter Prize . . . . . . . . . . . . 148--148
T. M. Luhrmann An Interpretation of the \booktitleFama
Fraternitatis with Respect to Dee's
\booktitleMonas Hieroglyphica . . . . . 1--10
D. I. Davies and
D. C. Lyon and
R. J. Spring Charles Loudon Bloxam --- a Victorian
University and Military Academy
Chemistry Teacher . . . . . . . . . . . 11--32
W. H. Brock The British Association Committee on
Chemical Symbols 1834: Edward Turner's
Letter to British Chemists and a Reply
by William Prout . . . . . . . . . . . . 33--42
Anonymous Announcements . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42--42
W. H. Brock Reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43--52
Urszula Szulakowska The Tree of Aristotle: Images of the
Philosophers' Stone and Their
Transference in Alchemy From the
Fifteenth to the Twentieth Century . . . 53--77
Wilfred R. Theissen John Dastin's Letter on the
Philosophers' Stone . . . . . . . . . . 78--87
Sally Newcomb Laboratory Evidence of Silica Solution
Supporting Wernerian Theory . . . . . . 88--93
David Knight Accomplishment or Dogma: Chemistry in
the Introductory Works of Jane Marcet
and Samuel Parkes . . . . . . . . . . . 94--98
Gwen Averley The ``Social Chemists'': English
Chemical Societies in the Eighteenth and
Early Nineteenth Century . . . . . . . . 99--128
Claus Priesner \em Spiritus Aethereus --- Formation of
Ether and Theories on Etherification
From Valerius Cordus to Alexander
Williamson . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 129--152
Anonymous Announcements . . . . . . . . . . . . . 152--152
John Shorter Reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 153--160
W. A. Smeaton The Society's First Fifty Years: Part I
--- \booktitleAmbix . . . . . . . . . . 1--4
W. Lewicki Announcement . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4--4
Jackson P. Hershbell Democritus and the Beginnings of Greek
Alchemy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5--20
Lawrence Principe ``Chemical Translation'' and the Role of
Impurities in Alchemy: Examples from
Basil Valentine's
\booktitleTriumph--Wagen . . . . . . . . 21--30
John H. Appleby Moses Stringer (fl. 1695--1713):
Iatrochemist and Mineral Master General 31--45
Michael Stanley Reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 45--56
W. A. Smeaton The Society's First Fifty Years: Part II
--- Members and Meetings . . . . . . . . 57--61
Jane P. Davidson ``I am the Poison Dripping Dragon'':
Iguanas and Their Symbolism in the
Alchemical and Occult Paintings of David
Teniers the Younger . . . . . . . . . . 62--80
Ludmila Sliwinska and
Burtron H. Davis The Gurvitsch Rule: an Example of a Rule
Misnamed? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 81--88
S. B. Sinclair J. J. Thomson and the Chemical Atom:
From Ether Vortex to Atomic Decay . . . 89--116
Anonymous The Dexter Award . . . . . . . . . . . . 116--116
Michael Stanley Reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 117--120
A. V. Simcock Alchemy and the World of Science: an
Intellectual Biography of Frank Sherwood
Taylor . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 121--139
W. A. Smeaton Two Books are Added to Guyton De
Morveau's Library: a Study of Personal
and Academic Communications in 1785 . . 140--146
John Hedley Brooke Methods and Methodology in the
Development of Organic Chemistry . . . . 147--155
A. J. Rocke Kolbe Versus the ``Transcendental
Chemists'': the Emergence of Classical
Organic Chemistry . . . . . . . . . . . 156--168
C. A. Russell The Changing Role of Synthesis in
Organic Chemistry . . . . . . . . . . . 169--180
Anonymous Announcements . . . . . . . . . . . . . 180--180
Hans-Georg Schneider Reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 181--184
C. Anne Wilson Jabirian Numbers, Pythagorean Numbers
and Plato's \booktitleTimaeus . . . . . 1--13
Raphael Patai Raymund De Tarrega-Marrano, Heretic,
Alchemist . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14--30
Susanna F. Rudofsky and
John H. Wotiz Psychologists and the Dream Accounts of
August Kekulé . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31--38
S. Nunziante Cesaro and
E. Torracca Early Applications of Infra-Red
Spectroscopy to Chemistry . . . . . . . 39--47
Graham Hollister-Short Reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 47--52
Roy M. MacLeod Gold From the Sea: Archibald Liversidge,
F.R.S., and the ``Chemical
Prospectors''; 1870--1970 . . . . . . . 53--64
V. Karpenko Coins and Medals Made of Alchemical
Metal . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 65--76
Ulrike Thomas Philipp Lorenz Geiger and Justus Liebig 77--90
S. B. Sinclair J. J. Thomson and Radioactivity: Part I 91--104
Anonymous The Partington Prize . . . . . . . . . . 105--105
S. B. Sinclair J. J. Thomson and radioactivity: Part II 113--126
Urszula Szulakowska Thirteenth Century Material Pantheism in
the Pseudo-Lullian `S'-Circle of the
Powers of the Soul . . . . . . . . . . . 127--154
Noel G. Coley Medical Chemistry at Guy's Hospital
(1770--1850) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 155--168
Anonymous Announcements . . . . . . . . . . . . . 168--168
Henriette Donner Essay Review: \booktitleErinnerungen
eines deutschen Naturforschers. By
Johannes Stark, with an introduction by
Andreas Kleinert. Pp. x + 153.
Bionomica-Verlag: Mannheim, 1997. DM 20.
ISBN 3-88208-060-0 . . . . . . . . . . . 169--176
W. A. Smeaton Monsieur and Madame Lavoisier in 1789:
The Chemical Revolution and the French
Revolution . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1--4
C. E. Perrin The Lavoisier--Bucquet Collaboration: a
Conjecture . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5--13
Hans-Georg Schneider The ``Fatherland of Chemistry'': Early
Nationalistic Currents in Late
Eighteenth Century German Chemistry . . 14--21
W. A. Smeaton Madame Lavoisier, P. S. and E. I. Du
Pont De Nemours and the publication of
Lavoisier's ``\booktitleMémoires De
Chimie'' . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22--30
Robert Siegfried Lavoisier and the phlogistic connection 31--40
Anonymous Announcement . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 40--40
W. A. Smeaton Essay Review . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41--42
Robert Ward Reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42--48
Helge Kragh The Aether in Late Nineteenth Century
Chemistry . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 49--65
Anonymous Announcement . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 65--65
Richard K. Payne Sex and Gestation, the Union of
Opposites in European and Chinese
Alchemy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 66--81
Allan Maccoll Australian Chemists at University
College London 1899--1988 . . . . . . . 82--90
Adalbert Farkas, Dr. Phil. Nat., Dr. Ing. Paul Harteck: the Triumphant Decade
1925--1934 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 91--102
A. G. Keller Reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 102--108
Timothy D. Moy Emil Fischer as ``Chemical Mediator'':
Science, Industry, and Government in
World War One . . . . . . . . . . . . . 109--120
Ian D. Rae The Research in Organic Chemistry of
Aleksandr Borodin (1833--1887) . . . . . 121--137
Anita Guerrini and
Jole R. Shackelford John Keill's \booktitlede Operationum
Chymicarum Ratione Mechanica . . . . . . 138--152
S. W. F. Holloway Eighteenth Century Medics . . . . . . . 152--153
Anonymous Reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 153--159
Anonymous Short Notices . . . . . . . . . . . . . 159--160
Anonymous Journals Received . . . . . . . . . . . 160--160
Pat Munday Social Climbing Through Chemistry:
Justus Liebig's Rise From the \em
Niederer Mittelstand to the \em
Bildungsbürgertum . . . . . . . . . . . . 3--19
George B. Kauffman and
Ester Molayem Alfonso Cossa (1833--1902), a
Self-Taught Italian Chemist . . . . . . 20--34
Daniel Merkur The Study of Spiritual Alchemy:
Mysticism, Gold-Making, and Esoteric
Hermeneutics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35--45
W. F. Ryan Alchemy, Magic, Poisons and the Virtues
of Stones in the Old Russian
\booktitleSecretum Secretorum . . . . . 46--54
Frank Greenaway Reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 54--60
VladimÍr Karpenko The Oldest Alchemical Manuscript in the
Czech Language . . . . . . . . . . . . . 61--73
Ilinka Sencar-Cupovi\'c The Foundation of the First Modern
Chemical Laboratories in Yugoslav
Countries . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 74--84
Anonymous Announcements Book Reviews for
\booktitleAmbix . . . . . . . . . . . . 84--84
H. J. Sheppard Reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 85--95
Ann Newmark The Partington Prize . . . . . . . . . . 96--96
William Newman Prophecy and Alchemy: The Origin of
Eirenaeus Philalethes . . . . . . . . . 97--115
Vladimir Karpenko Christoph Bergner: The Last Prague
Alchemist . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 116--120
Maria Papathanassiou Stephanus of Alexandria: Pharmaceutical
Notions and Cosmology in his Alchemical
Work . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 121--133
W. H. Brock and
Susanne Stark Liebig, Gregory and the British
Association, 1837--1842 . . . . . . . . 134--147
Anonymous Announcements . . . . . . . . . . . . . 147--147
W. H. Brock Reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 148--152
Yung Sik Kim Another Look at Robert Boyle's
Acceptance of the Mechanical Philosophy:
Its Limits and its Chemical and Social
Contexts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1--10
Herbert T. Pratt Peter Crosthwaite: John Dalton's
``Friend and Colleague'' . . . . . . . . 11--28
Brian Gee and
William H. Brock The Case of John Joseph Griffin. From
Artisan--Chemist and Author--Instructor
to Business-Leader . . . . . . . . . . . 29--62
H. J. Sheppard Reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 63--63
Wilfred Theisen John Dastin: The Alchemist as Co-Creator 73--78
E. M. Cammidge Benzene and Turpentine: The Pre-History
of Drycleaning . . . . . . . . . . . . . 79--84
Stephen F. Mason From Pasteur to Parity Violation: Cosmic
Dissymmetry and the Origins of
Biomolecular Handedness . . . . . . . . 85--108
Marianne Winder Reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 100--111
Anthony S. Travis Heinrich Caro at Roberts, Dale & Co. . . 113--134
Pat Munday Liebig's Metamorphosis: From Organic
Chemistry to the Chemistry of
Agriculture . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 135--154
Mark R. Finlay The Rehabilitation of an Agricultural
Chemist: Justus Von Liebig and the
Seventh Edition . . . . . . . . . . . . 155--167
Trevor I. Williams Reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 168--172
Marco Beretta The Historiography of Chemistry in the
Eighteenth Century: a Preliminary Survey
and Bibliography . . . . . . . . . . . . 1--10
Theodore L. Sourkes Vauquelin, Balzac and the Chemical
Analysis of Hair . . . . . . . . . . . . 11--16
Herbert T. Pratt John Dalton Settles in Manchester . . . 17--20
Uschi Schling-Brodersen Liebig's Role in the Establishment of
Agricultural Chemistry . . . . . . . . . 21--31
Marianne Winder Reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32--46
Vladimír Karpenko The Chemistry and Metallurgy of
Transmutation . . . . . . . . . . . . . 47--62
L. M. Principe Robert Boyle's Alchemical Secrecy:
Codes, Ciphers and Concealments . . . . 63--74
Carlos A. L. Filgueiras The Mishaps of Peripheral Science: The
Life and Work of Manoel Joaquim
Henriques De Paiva, Luso--Brazilian
Chemist and Physician of the Late
Eighteenth Century . . . . . . . . . . . 75--90
P. M. Rattansi Essay Review: Alchemy Revisited:
\booktitleAlchemy Revisited. Proceedings
of the International Conference in the
History of Alchemy at the University of
Groningen 17--19 April 1989. Edited by
Z. R. W. M. Von Martels. Pp. xii + 284.
E. J. Brill: Leiden, New York, etc.
1990. Gld. 140, ca \$80. ISBN
90-04-09287-0} . . . . . . . . . . . . . 91--95
P. M. Rattansi Reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 95--102
Charles Burnett The Astrologer's Assay of the Alchemist:
Early References to Alchemy in Arabic
and Latin Texts . . . . . . . . . . . . 103--109
Douglas Allchin Phlogiston After Oxygen . . . . . . . . 110--116
Peter. J. T. Morris and
Anthony S. Travis The Chemical Society of London and the
Dye Industry in the 1860s . . . . . . . 117--126
Michael N. Keas Karl Aloys Schenzinger's Novel,
\booktitleAnilin: Chemistry and Chemical
Technology in Nazi \em Literaturpolitik 127--140
William Paton Essay Review: In Search of a Cure . . . 141--142
Anonymous Announcements . . . . . . . . . . . . . 143--143
Keith Hutchison Reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 144--157
Regine Zott The Development of Science and
Scientific Communication: Justus
Liebig's Two Famous Publications of 1840 1--10
Andrew Ede When is a Tool Not a Tool? Understanding
the Role of Laboratory Equipment in the
Early Colloidal Chemistry Laboratory . . 11--24
R. W. Soukup and
S. von Osten and
H. Mayer Alembics, Cucurbits, Phials, Crucibles:
a 16th-Century Docimastic Laboratory
Excavated in Austria . . . . . . . . . . 25--25
Anonymous Announcements . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26--26
Lawrence M. Principe Reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27--38
Martha Baldwin Alchemy and the Society of Jesus in the
Seventeenth Century: Strange Bedfellows? 41--64
Paul R. Jones Justus Von Liebig, Eben Horsford and the
Development of the Baking Powder
Industry . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 65--74
Ana Carneiro Adolphe Wurtz and the Atomism
Controversy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 75--95
Kenneth Craven Essay Review . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 96--97
A. S. Travis Report . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 98--99
George B. Kauffman Reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 99--118
Vladimír Karpenko Between Magic and Science: Numerical
Magic Squares . . . . . . . . . . . . . 121--128
Zbigniew Szydlo The Alchemy of Michael Sendivogius: His
Central Nitre Theory . . . . . . . . . . 129--146
Stephen Clucas The Correspondence of a XVII-Century
`Chymicall Gentleman': Sir Cheney
Culpeper and the Chemical Interests of
the Hartlib Circle . . . . . . . . . . . 147--170
Antonio Clericuzio Reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 171--176
Anonymous Chairman's Remarks and Editor's Remarks 1--3
J. R. R. Christie Historiography of Chemistry in the
Eighteenth Century: Hermann Boerhaave
and William Cullen . . . . . . . . . . . 4--19
A. J. Rocke History and Science, History of Science:
Adolphe Wurtz and the Renovation of the
Academic Professions in France . . . . . 20--32
Gillian Beer \booktitleSquare Rounds and Other
Awkward Fits: Chemistry as Theatre . . . 33--41
David Knight Reports . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42--44
Brian Vickers Essay Review: \booktitleHermitica. The
Greek \booktitleCorpus Hermeticum and
the Latin \booktitleAsclepius in a new
English translation, with notes and
introduction. By Brian P. Copenhaver.
Pp. lxxxiii + 320. Cambridge University
Press: Cambridge, New York, Oakleigh,
1992. \pounds 45, \$69.95. ISBN
0-521-36144-3} . . . . . . . . . . . . . 45--48
Anonymous Reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 48--61
Pierre Laszlo Le Châtelier, `Public Prosecutor' of
Darzens . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 65--74
Carole B. Shmurak Emma Perry Carr: The Spectrum of a Life 75--86
K. Schofield The Development of Ingold's System of
Organic Chemistry . . . . . . . . . . . 87--107
Anonymous Announcements . . . . . . . . . . . . . 107--107
George B. Kauffman Reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 108--119
Karin C. Ryding Islamic Alchemy According to
Al-Khwarizmi . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 121--134
Lyndy Abraham The Sources of Arthur Dee's
\booktitleFasciculus Chemicus (1631) . . 135--141
Zahkare E. Gelman Angelo Sala, An Iatrochemist of the Late
Renaissance . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 142--160
Lawrence M. Principe Reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 161--168
Anonymous Announcement . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 168--168
Frank A. J. L. James Science as a Cultural Ornament: Bunsen,
Kirchhoff and Helmholtz in
Mid-Nineteenth-Century Baden . . . . . . 1--9
Anthony S. Travis Artificial Dyes in John Lightfoot's
Broad Oak Laboratory . . . . . . . . . . 10--27
Ian D. Rae Chemical Organizations in Australia and
New Zealand . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28--49
R. W. Home Essay Review: The Chemistry of Light . . 50--51
Graham Rees Reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 52--62
Berthold Heinecke The Mysticism and Science of Johann
Baptista Van Helmont (1579--1644) . . . 65--78
Ursula Klein E. F. Geoffroy's Table of Different
`Rapports' Observed Between Different
Chemical Substances --- A
Reinterpretation . . . . . . . . . . . . 79--100
Maurice Crosland Lavoisier, the Two French Revolutions
and `The Imperial Despotism of Oxygen' 101--118
Stephen Pumfrey Reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 119--127
Nathan M. Brooks Nikolai Zinin at Kazan University . . . 129--142
Katherine D. Watson The Chemist as Expert: The Consulting
Career of Sir William Ramsay . . . . . . 143--159
K. Schofield Some Aspects of the Work of Arthur
Lapworth . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 160--186
Mikulás Teich Reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 187--192
Mi Gyung Kim Constructing Symbolic Spaces: Chemical
Molecules in the Académie Des Sciences 1--31
Denis Ian Duveen Obituary . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31--31
Andrew Ede Colloids and Quantification: The
Ultracentrifuge and its Transformation
of Colloid Chemistry . . . . . . . . . . 32--45
Margaret W. Rossiter Chemical Librarianship: a Kind of
`Women's Work' in America . . . . . . . 46--58
Pierre Laszlo Essay Review: \booktitleA Social History
of Truth. Civility and Science in
Seventeenth-Century England. By Stephen
Shapin. Pp. 483. University of Chicago
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Bruce T. Moran Paracelsus, Religion, and Dissent: The
Case of Philipp Homagius and Georg
Zimmermann . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 65--79
Zbigniew Szydlo The Influence of the Central Nitre
Theory of Michael Sendivogius on the
Chemical Philosophy of the Seventeenth
Century . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 80--96
Nicholas Goodrick-Clarke News . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 97--98
P. M. Rattansi Essay Review . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 99--100
Marie Boas Hall Reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 101--128
Michael F. Conlin Joseph Priestley's American Defense of
Phlogiston Reconsidered . . . . . . . . 129--145
Susie Fisher William Odling: `Interpreter and
Liaison-Officer' Advocate of a New
System of Chemistry . . . . . . . . . . 146--163
Anonymous Announcements . . . . . . . . . . . . . 163--163
Noel G. Coley Studies in the History of Animal
Chemistry and its Relation to Physiology 164--187
Michael Stanley An Error in Dating . . . . . . . . . . . 188--188
Ian D. Rae Reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 189--191
Nathan M. Brooks Public Lectures in Chemistry in Russia:
1750--1870 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1--10
Carsten Reinhardt and
Anthony S. Travis The Introduction of Aniline Dyes to
Paper Printing and Queen Victoria's
Postage Stamps . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11--18
Hannah Gay The Chemical Philosophy of Theodore W.
Richards . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19--38
W. H. Brock In Appreciation . . . . . . . . . . . . 39--39
David H. Leaback News . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 40--40
Pat Munday Reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41--54
Fabio Decet and
Rosario Mosello Studies on the Chemistry of Atmospheric
Deposition in the Eighteenth and
Nineteenth Centuries . . . . . . . . . . 57--84
Robert Ward Before and after the Bomb --- Some
Literary Speculations on the use of the
Atomic Bomb . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 85--95
Anonymous Announcements . . . . . . . . . . . . . 95--95
John Hedley Brooke Essay Review: \booktitleEdward
Frankland. Chemistry, Controversy and
Conspiracy in Victorian England. By
Colin A. Russell. Pp. xx + 535, illus.
Cambridge University Press:Cambridge and
New York. 1996. \pounds 65. ISBN
0-521-49636-5 . . . . . . . . . . . . . 96--112
Graham Rees Reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 98--112
P\`ere Grapí and
Merc\`e Izquierdo Berthollet's Conception of Chemical
Change in Context . . . . . . . . . . . 113--130
Ian D. Rae Spectrum Analysis: The Priority Claims
of Stokes and Kirchhoff . . . . . . . . 131--144
Anonymous Announcement . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 144--144
Anonymous Essay Reviews: ``Just one word \ldots,
The Historiography of Plastics''.
\booktitleEarly Plastics. Perspectives
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Press/Science Museum: London and
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0-8135-2235-8 (paperback).
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to Large. A Century of Progress. By
Herman F. Mark. (Profiles, Pathways and
Dreams series). Pp. xxvi + 148. American
Chemical Society: Washington, DC. 1993.
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A. G. Keller Reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 148--163
W. H. Brock Short Notices . . . . . . . . . . . . . 164--164
Jonathan Simon The Chemical Revolution and Pharmacy: a
Disciplinary Perspective . . . . . . . . 1--13
C. Anne Wilson Pythagorean Theory and Dionysian
Practice: The Cultic and Practical
Background to Chemical Experimentation
in Hellenistic Egypt . . . . . . . . . . 14--33
Marianne Winder Correction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33--33
Michael A. Sutton Reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34--44
Anonymous Short Notices . . . . . . . . . . . . . 44--48
Beverly S. Almgren D. I. Mendeleev and Siberia . . . . . . 50--66
Francis Michael Stackenwalt Dmitrii Ivanovich Mendeleev and the
Emergence of the Modern Russian
Petroleum Industry, 1863--1877 . . . . . 67--84
Richard E. Rice Mendeleev's Public Opposition to
Spiritualism . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 85--95
Michael D. Gordin Making Newtons: Mendeleev, Metrology,
and the Chemical Ether . . . . . . . . . 96--115
Nathan M. Brooks Mendeleev and Metrology . . . . . . . . 116--128
John Hudson News and Announcements . . . . . . . . . 129--130
Stephen D. Snobelen Reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 130--135
Brian P. Dolan Blowpipes and Batteries: Humphry Davy,
Edward Daniel Clarke, and Experimental
Chemistry in Early Nineteenth-Century
Britain . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 137--162
John C. Powers `\booktitleArs Sine Arte:' Nicholas
Lemery and the End of Alchemy in
Eighteenth-Century France . . . . . . . 163--189
Anonymous News and Announcements . . . . . . . . . 190--190
Colin A. Russell Essay Review: \booktitleThe Chemical
Gatekeeper . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 191--192
Antonio Clericuzio Reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 193--200
Ernst Homburg The Rise of Analytical Chemistry and its
Consequences for the Development of the
German Chemical Profession (1780--1860) 1--32
Charles Tanford and
Jacqueline Reynolds Protein Chemists Bypass the
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Medical Applications of Chemistry in
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David Harley Rychard Bostok of Tandridge, Surrey (c.
1530--1605), M.P., Paracelsian
Propagandist and Friend of John Dee . . 29--36
Theodore L. Sourkes Devitalising the Elements: Johann
Friedrich John (1782--1847) and the
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from a Vital Force . . . . . . . . . . . 37--46
John D. Baird Note on the Date of Publication of the
English Translation of Lavoisier's
\booktitleTraité Élémentaire De Chymie . . 47--48
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Hannah Gay `Pillars of the College': Assistants at
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Peter J. Ramberg The Death of Vitalism and The Birth of
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Paulo Alves Porto Michael Sendivogius on Nitre and the
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Tara E. Nummedal Alchemical Reproduction and the Career
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Lucia Tosi Marie Meurdrac: Paracelsian Chemist and
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ISSN 1433-5158 . . . . . . . . . . . . . 67--71
John Hudson Reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 72--94
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Robert Rosner Organic Chemistry in the Habsburg Empire
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Anna E. J. Harle and
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D. Thorburn Burns Essay Review: \booktitleThe Works of
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Antonio Garcia-Belmar and
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Anonymous Reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 251--270
Peter Morris Erratum . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 271--271
William H. Brock Editorial . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1--2
Martin Kirschke Liebig, his University Professor Karl
Wilhelm Gottlob Kastner (1783--1857),
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Robin Findlay Hendry Reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 116--143
John Perkins Creating Chemistry in Provincial France
before the Revolution: The Examples of
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Joost Mertens Anselme Payen (1795--1871), Learned
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John Perkins Creating Chemistry in Provincial France
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Ton Van HelVoort Articulating Biochemistry in The
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Anonymous Call for Nominations for the 2006
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Ku-Ming (Kevin) Chang Toleration of Alchemists as a Political
Question: Transmutation, Disputation,
and Early Modern Scholarship on Alchemy 245--273
Angela Bandinelli The Isolated System of Quantifiable
Experiences in the 1783
``\booktitleMémoire sur la chaleur'' of
Lavoisier and Laplace . . . . . . . . . 274--284
Bruce D. White and
Walter W. Woodward ``A Most Exquisite Fellow'' --- William
White and an Atlantic World Perspective
on the Seventeenth-Century Chymical
Furnace . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 285--298
Ian Longhurst The Identity of Pliny's \booktitleFlos
Salis and Roman Perfume . . . . . . . . 299--302
Anonymous The Partington Prize 2008 . . . . . . . 303--303
Anonymous Call for Nominations for the 2008
Edelstein Award . . . . . . . . . . . . 304--304
Tara E. Nummedal Book reviews: \booktitleAlquimia:
ciencia y pensamiento a través de los
libros (Alchemy: Science and thought
through the books). Edited by Joaquín
Pérez Pariente and Miguel López Pérez. Pp.
166, illus. index. Complutense
University Press and Sevilla University
Press: Madrid and Sevilla. 2006. EUR 15.
ISBN 84-7491-792-1 and 84-472-1046-4
\booktitleJean Fernel's ``\booktitleOn
the hidden causes of things'': forms,
souls, and occult diseases in
Renaissance medicine, with an Edition
and Translation of Fernel's
``\booktitleDe Abditis Rerum Causis''.
Edited by John Henry and John M.
Forrester. Pp. x + 779, index. Brill:
Leiden and Boston. 2005. EUR 172; \$232.
ISBN 90-04-14128-6}} . . . . . . . . . . 305--320
David Philip Miller and
Trevor H. Levere ``Inhale it and See?'' The Collaboration
between Thomas Beddoes and James Watt in
Pneumatic Medicine . . . . . . . . . . . 5--28
Hjalmar Fors Stepping through Science's Door: C. W.
Scheele, from Pharmacist's Apprentice to
Man of Science . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29--49
Deborah J. Warner Ira Remsen, Saccharin, and the Linear
Model . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 50--61
Andre Siegel Sir Robert Robinson's ``Anthocyanin
Period'': 1922--1934 --- a Case Study of
an Early Twentieth-Century Natural
Products Synthesis . . . . . . . . . . . 62--82
Anonymous Reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 83--96
William H. Brock Stephen Finney Mason (1923--2008) . . . 97--98
Ana Maria Alfonso-Goldfarb and
Safa Abou Chahla Jubran Listening to the Whispers of Matter
Through Arabic Hermeticism: New Studies
on the \booktitleBook of the Treasure of
Alexander . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 99--121
Steffen Ducheyne A Preliminary Study of the Appropriation
of Van Helmont's oeuvre in Britain in
Chymistry, Medicine and Natural
Philosophy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 122--135
Mariko Ogawa Liebig and the Royal Agricultural
Society Meeting at Bristol, 1842 . . . . 136--152
Wilfred Thiesen The Letters of John Dastin . . . . . . . 153--168
Anonymous Reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 169--187
Jennifer M. Rampling Establishing the Canon: George Ripley
and his Alchemical Sources . . . . . . . 189--208
Georgette Taylor Tracing Influence in Small Steps:
Richard Kirwan's Quantified Affinity
Theory . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 209--231
Warren Alexander Dym Alchemy and Mining: Metallogenesis and
Prospecting in Early Mining Books . . . 232--254
Isabel Malaquias Aspects of the Scientific network and
Communication of John Hyacinth de
Magellan in Britain, Flanders and France 255--273
Amy Eisen Cislo Paracelsus's Conception of Seeds:
Rethinking Paracelsus's Ideas of Body
and Matter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 274--282
M. D. Eddy The Dark Side of Collecting --- Early
Modern Chemistry, Humanism and
Classification . . . . . . . . . . . . . 283--292
Anonymous Book Review: \booktitleThe History and
Poetics of Scientific Biography. Edited
by Thomas Söderqvist. Pp. xiv + 270,
illus., index. Ashgate: Aldershot. 2007.
\pounds 55. ISBN 978-0-7546-5181-9 . . . 293--308
Anonymous Journals under Threat: a Joint Response
from History of Science, Technology and
Medicine Editors . . . . . . . . . . . . 1--3
Matteo Martelli ``Divine Water'' in the Alchemical
Writings of Pseudo-Democritus . . . . . 5--22
Tonio Sebastian Richter What Kind of Alchemy is Attested by
Tenth-Century Coptic Manuscripts? . . . 23--35
Gabriele Ferrario An Arabic Dictionary of Technical
Alchemical Terms: MS Sprenger 1908 of
the Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin (fols.
3r--6r) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36--48
Sébastien Moureau Some Considerations Concerning the
Alchemy of the \booktitleDe anima in
arte alchemiae of Pseudo-Avicenna . . . 49--56
Antony Vinciguerra The \booktitleArs alchemie: the First
Latin Text on Practical Alchemy . . . . 57--67
Alan Williams A Note on Liquid Iron in Medieval Europe 68--75
B. C. Hallum The \booktitleTome of Images: an Arabic
Compilation of Texts by Zosimos of
Panopolis and a Source of the
\booktitleTurba Philosophorum . . . . . 76--88
Anonymous Reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 89--92
Maurice Crosland Lavoisier's Achievement; More Than a
Chemical Revolution . . . . . . . . . . 93--114
Yoshiyuki Kikuchi Samurai Chemists, Charles Graham and
Alexander William Williamson at
University College London, 1863--1872 115--137
Robert DeKosky Developing Chemical Instrumentation for
Environmental Use in the Late Twentieth
Century: Detecting Lead in Paint Using
Portable X-Ray Fluorescence Spectrometry 138--162
Christine Lehman Mid-Eighteenth-century Chemistry in
France as Seen Through Student Notes
from the Courses of Gabriel-François
Venel and Guillaume--François Rouelle . . 163--189
Peter Morris New Dictionary of Scientific Biography 190--192
Anonymous Reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 193--199
Lawrence M. Principe Allen G. Debus (1926--2009): an
Appreciation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 201--201
Peter Grund Textual Alchemy: The Transformation of
Pseudo-Albertus Magnus's
\booktitleSemita Recta into the
\booktitleMirror of Lights . . . . . . . 202--225
Barbara Obrist Views on History in Medieval Alchemical
Writings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 226--238
William Poole Theodoricus Gravius (fl. 1600--1661):
Some Biographical Notes on a German
Chymist and Scribe Working in
Seventeenth-Century England . . . . . . 239--252
Leslie Tomory Let it Burn: Distinguishing Inflammable
Airs 1766--1790 . . . . . . . . . . . . 253--272
Anonymous Reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 273--276
John Perkins Chemistry Courses and the Construction
of Chemistry, 1750--1830 . . . . . . . . 1--1
Christine Lehman Innovation in Chemistry Courses in
France in the Mid-Eighteenth Century:
Experiments and Affinities . . . . . . . 3--26
John Perkins Chemistry Courses, the Parisian Chemical
World and the Chemical Revolution,
1770--1790 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27--47
Antonio García Belmar and
José Ramón Bertomeu-Sánchez Louis Jacques Thenard's Chemistry
Courses at the Coll\`ege de France,
1804--1835 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 48--63
Jan Frercks Demonstrating the Facticity of Facts:
University Lectures and Chemistry as a
Science in Germany around 1800 . . . . . 64--83
Robert G. W. Anderson Chemistry Beyond the Academy: Diversity
in Scotland in the Early Nineteenth
Century . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 84--103
Anonymous Reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 104--122
Anonymous Short Notices . . . . . . . . . . . . . 120--122
Jennifer M. Rampling The Catalogue of the Ripley Corpus:
Alchemical Writings Attributed to George
Ripley (d. ca. 1490) . . . . . . . . . . 125--201
Pierre Laszlo Quality Information from the Grapevine 202--215
Gábor Palló The Advantage and Disadvantage of
Peripheral Ignorance: The Gas Adsorption
Controversy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 216--230
Paul Craddock Science and Civilisation in China.
Volume 5. Chemistry and Chemical
Technology. Part 11: Ferrous Metallurgy 231--232
Anonymous Reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 233--247
Didier Kahn Alchemical Poetry in Medieval and Early
Modern Europe: a Preliminary Survey and
Synthesis. Part I --- Preliminary Survey 249--274
Jurrie Reiding Peter Debye: Nazi Collaborator or Secret
Opponent? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 275--300
Herbert T. Pratt A Letter Signed: The Very Beginnings of
Dalton's Atomic Theory . . . . . . . . . 301--310
Anonymous Reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 311--323
Stephen Clucas Margaret Cavendish's Materialist
Critique of Van Helmontian Chymistry . . 1--12
Rémi Franckowiak Mechanical and Chemical Explanations in
Du Clos' Chemistry . . . . . . . . . . . 13--28
Olga Y. Elina Private Initiatives, Public Support, and
War Practices: Development of
Fertilisers in Russia . . . . . . . . . 29--61
Didier Kahn Alchemical Poetry in Medieval and Early
Modern Europe: a Preliminary Survey and
Synthesis. Part II --- Synthesis . . . . 62--77
Bink Hallum Essay Reviews: \booktitleThe Secret
History of Hermes Trismegistus:
Hermeticism from Ancient to Modern
Times. By Florian Ebeling, with a
foreword by Jan Assmann. Pp. xiii + 158,
illus., index. Cornell University Press:
Ithaca and London. 2007. \$29.95;
\pounds 15.95. ISBN 978-0-8014-4546-0
(hbk). \booktitle{The Arabic Hermes:
from Pagan Sage to Prophet of Science}.
By Kevin Van Bladel. Pp. xii + 278,
index. Oxford University Press: Oxford.
2009. \pounds 45. ISBN
978-0-19-537613-5} . . . . . . . . . . . 78--81
Anonymous Reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 82--95
Jeffrey Allan Johnson Crisis, Change and Creativity in Science
and Technology: Chemistry in the
Aftermath of Twentieth-Century Global
Wars . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 101--115
Danielle M. E. Fauque French Chemists and the International
Reorganisation of Chemistry after World
War I . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 116--135
Yoshiyuki Kikuchi World War I, International Participation
and Reorganisation of the Japanese
Chemical Community . . . . . . . . . . . 136--149
Sally Horrocks World War II, Post-war Reconstruction
and British Women Chemists . . . . . . . 150--170
Anonymous Reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 171--184
Anonymous Short notices . . . . . . . . . . . . . 184--185
Robert G. W. Anderson The History of the History of Chemistry 187--189
W. H. Brock Exploring Early Modern Chymistry: The
First Twenty-Five Years of the Society
for the Study of Alchemy & Early Modern
Chemistry 1935--1960 . . . . . . . . . . 191--214
Marcos Martinón-Torres Some Recent Developments in the
Historiography of Alchemy . . . . . . . 215--237
Peter J. T. Morris The Fall and Rise of the History of
Recent Chemistry . . . . . . . . . . . . 238--256
Marco Beretta The Changing role of the Historiography
of Chemistry in Continental Europe Since
1800 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 257--276
Anonymous Reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 277--291
Evan Ragland Chymistry and Taste in the Seventeenth
Century: Franciscus Dele Boë Sylvius as a
Chymical Physician Between Galenism and
Cartesianism . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1--21
Marcos Martinón-Torres Inside Solomon's House: an
Archaeological Study of the Old
Ashmolean Chymical Laboratory in Oxford 22--48
Robert G. W. Anderson Partington: The Missing Part . . . . . . 49--64
Anonymous Reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 65--79
Anthony S. Travis \booktitleSilent Spring at 50: Earth,
Water, and Air . . . . . . . . . . . . . 83--87
Hannah Gay Before and After \booktitleSilent
Spring: From Chemical Pesticides to
Biological Control and Integrated Pest
Management --- Britain, 1945--1980 . . . 88--108
Anthony S. Travis Detecting Chlorinated Hydrocarbon
Residues: Rachel Carson's Villains . . . 109--130
Peter Reed The Alkali Inspectorate 1874--1906:
Pressure for Wider and Tighter Pollution
Regulation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 131--151
Rony Armon From Pathology to Chemistry and Back:
James W. Cook and Early Chemical
Carcinogenesis Research . . . . . . . . 152--169
Anonymous From Museumsinsel to the Grüneburg: New
Approaches in the History of the Third
Reich . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 170--173
Anonymous Reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 174--185
Peter J. T. Morris Musings from a Departing Editor on the
75th Anniversary of \booktitleAmbix . . 189--196
Vera Keller The Authority of Practice in the Alchemy
of Sir John Heydon (1588--1653) . . . . 197--217
Fernando J. Luna and
Lorelai B. Kury Enlightenment Chemistry Translated by a
Brazilian Man of Science in Lisbon . . . 218--240
Jennifer Wilson Celebrating Michael Faraday's Discovery
of Benzene . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 241--265
Kärin Nickelsen The Path of Carbon in Photosynthesis:
How to Discover a Biochemical Pathway 266--293
Anonymous Reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 294--307
Jennifer M. Rampling New Developments for \booktitleAmbix . . 1--2
Lawrence M. Principe Sir Kenelm Digby and His Alchemical
Circle in 1650s Paris: Newly Discovered
Manuscripts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3--24
Didier Kahn Towards a History of Joseph Du Chesne's
Manuscripts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25--30
Christopher Baxfield ``Who is the Almighty that We should
serve Him?'' Chaos, Providence and
Natural Philosophy in Stephen Hales . . 31--53
Melanie Keene From Candles to Cabinets: ``Familiar
Chemistry'' in Early Victorian Britain 54--77
Anonymous Reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 78--93
John Perkins Sites of Chemistry in the Eighteenth
Century . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 95--98
Ursula Klein Chemical Experts at the Royal Prussian
Porcelain Manufactory . . . . . . . . . 99--121
Simon Werrett Green is the Colour: St. Petersburg's
Chemical Laboratories and Competing
Visions of Chemistry in the Eighteenth
Century . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 122--138
Elena Serrano Chemistry in the City: The Scientific
Role of Female Societies in late
Eighteenth-Century Madrid . . . . . . . 139--159
Peter Konecný Sites of Chemistry in the Schemnitz
Mining Academy and the
Eighteenth-Century Habsburg Mining
Administration . . . . . . . . . . . . . 160--178
Masanori Kaji Philosophy of Chemistry and the Periodic
Table . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 179--181
Anonymous Reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 182--201
W. H. Brock Bunsen's British Students . . . . . . . 203--233
Stephen T. Irish Brodie's Calculus and Chemical
Classification . . . . . . . . . . . . . 234--254
Stefano Salvia Emil Wohlwill's ``Entdeckung des
Isomorphismus'': A Nineteenth-Century
``Material Biography'' of
Crystallography . . . . . . . . . . . . 255--284
Georgiana Hedesan Alchemy in Early Modern England . . . . 285--288
Anonymous Reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 289--308
Tara Nummedal Alchemy and Religion in Christian Europe 311--322
Zachary Matus Resurrected Bodies and Roger Bacon's
Elixir . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 323--340
Georgiana D. Hedesan Reproducing the Tree of Life: Radical
Prolongation of Life and Biblical
Interpretation in Seventeenth-Century
Medical Alchemy . . . . . . . . . . . . 341--360
Peter J. Forshaw \booktitleCabala Chymica or
\booktitleChemia Cabalistica --- Early
Modern Alchemists and Cabala . . . . . . 361--389
Donna Bilak Alchemy and the End Times: Revelations
from the Laboratory and Library of John
Allin, Puritan Alchemist (1623--1683) 390--414
Anonymous Reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 415--428
Nils Lenke and
Nicolas Roudet and
Hereward Tilton Michael Maier --- Nine Newly Discovered
Letters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1--47
Georgette Taylor Pedagogical Progeniture or Tactical
Translation? George Fordyce's Additions
and Modifications to William Cullen's
Philosophical Chemistry --- Part I . . . 48--66
Anthony S. Travis The Emerging Role of Titrimetry in Late
Nineteenth-Century Industrial Problem
Solving: The Example of Trace Analysis
for Perchlorate in Chile Saltpetre . . . 67--94
Ana Simões Scientific biographies revisited:
Thomsons' electrons and Bohr's quantum
atoms . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 95--99
Suzanne Sutherland Duchacek Reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 100--108
Antonio García-Belmar Sites of Chemistry in the Nineteenth
Century . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 109--114
Christine Nawa A Refuge for Inorganic Chemistry:
Bunsen's Heidelberg Laboratory . . . . . 115--140
Anna Simmons Stills, Status, Stocks and Science: The
Laboratories at Apothecaries' Hall in
the Nineteenth Century . . . . . . . . . 141--161
José Ramón Bertomeu-Sánchez Classrooms, Salons, Academies, and
Courts: Mateu Orfila (1787--1853) and
Nineteenth-Century French Toxicology . . 162--186
Didier Kahn and
William R. Newman Joachim Telle (1939--2013) . . . . . . . 187--193
Nathalie Jas Chemicals and Environmental History . . 194--198
Georgiana D. Hedesan and
Gabriele Ferrario and
Christine Lehman and
Luc Peterschmitt and
Barbara Orland and
Ana Carneiro and
Charlotte Bigg and
Ximo Guillem-Llobat and
David Knight and
Anna Simmons Reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 199--209
Mary Jo Nye Mine, Thine, and Ours: Collaboration and
Co-Authorship in the Material Culture of
the Mid-Twentieth Century Chemical
Laboratory . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 211--235
Tillmann Taape Distilling Reliable Remedies: Hieronymus
Brunschwig's \booktitleLiber de arte
distillandi (1500) Between Alchemical
Learning and Craft Practice . . . . . . 236--256
Georgette Taylor Pedagogical Progeniture or Tactical
Translation? George Fordyce's Additions
and Modifications to William Cullen's
Philosophical Chemistry --- Part II . . 257--278
Jacob Steere-Williams A Conflict of Analysis: Analytical
Chemistry and Milk Adulteration in
Victorian Britain . . . . . . . . . . . 279--298
Frederick G. Page The Little Known \booktitleMineral and
Chemical History of Iron and \booktitleA
History of Brass by an
Eighteenth-Century Technologist, William
Lewis (1708--1781) . . . . . . . . . . . 299--304
Anna Marie Roos and
Georgiana D. Hedesan and
Robert Fox and
Bernadette Bensaude-Vincent and
Jeffrey Allan Johnson and
Duncan Wilson and
Robert G. W. Kirk and
Alfredo Menéndez-Navarro and
William H. Brock Reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 305--318
Joel A. Klein and
Evan R. Ragland Introduction Analysis and Synthesis in
Medieval and Early Modern Europe . . . . 319--326
William R. Newman Mercury and Sulphur among the High
Medieval Alchemists: From Razi and
Avicenna to Albertus Magnus and
Pseudo-Roger Bacon . . . . . . . . . . . 327--344
Joel A. Klein Corporeal Elements and Principles in the
Learned German Chymical Tradition . . . 345--365
Vera Keller Hermetic Atomism: Christian Adolph
Balduin (1632--1682), \em Aurum Aurae,
and the 1674 Phosphor . . . . . . . . . 366--384
John C. Powers Fire Analysis in the Eighteenth Century:
Herman Boerhaave and Scepticism about
the Elements . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 385--406
Néstor Herran Nuclear Markets, Nuclear Bodies . . . . 407--410
Matteo Martelli and
Anke Timmermann and
Amy Eisen Cislo and
Jonathan Simon and
Willem Vijvers and
Pierre Laszlo and
Seymour Mauskopf and
John K. Smith and
Peter Morris and
David A. Kirby Reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 411--421
Evan Hepler-Smith ``Just as the Structural Formula Does'':
Names, Diagrams, and the Structure of
Organic Chemistry at the 1892 Geneva
Nomenclature Congress . . . . . . . . . 1--28
Joel A. Klein Daniel Sennert, The Philosophical Hen,
and The Epistolary Quest for a
(Nearly-)Universal Medicine . . . . . . 29--49
A. M. Pollard Letters from China: a History of the
Origins of the Chemical Analysis of
Ceramics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 50--71
Peter Reed Making War Work for Industry: The United
Alkali Company's Central Laboratory
During World War One . . . . . . . . . . 72--93
Agustí Nieto-Galan Revisiting Colour History . . . . . . . 94--97
William H. Brock and
Mike A. Zuber and
Amy Eisen Cislo and
Sarah Lowengard and
Nuno Figueiredo and
Ana Simões and
Jeffrey Allan Johnson and
Jonathan Simon Reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 98--106
William R. Newman Erratum: Mercury and Sulphur among the
High Medieval Alchemists: From Razi and
Avicenna to Albertus Magnus and
Pseudo-Roger Bacon . . . . . . . . . . . 107--107
Carsten Reinhardt Sites of Chemistry in the Twentieth
Century . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 109--113
Muriel Le Roux From Science to Industry: The Sites of
Aluminium in France from the Nineteenth
to the Twentieth Century . . . . . . . . 114--137
Ana Carneiro and
Isabel Amaral Propaganda and Philanthropy: The
Institute Bento da Rocha Cabral, the
Lisbon Site of Biochemistry (1925--1953) 138--166
Daniel Normark Flexibility or Inexactitude? The ``Lab
60'' at Karolinska Institutet: From
Medical Disciplines towards the Modern
Biomedical Complex . . . . . . . . . . . 167--188
Luc Peterschmitt New Big Pictures of Alchemy . . . . . . 189--192
Daniel Becker and
Yoshiyuki Kikuchi and
Anna Simmons and
Helge Kragh and
Elena Serrano Reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 193--201
Cristina Viano \em Mixis and Diagnôsis: Aristotle and
the ``Chemistry'' of the Sublunary World 203--214
Olivier Dufault Transmutation Theory in the Greek
Alchemical Corpus . . . . . . . . . . . 215--244
Corinna Guerra If You Don't Have a Good Laboratory,
Find a Good Volcano: Mount Vesuvius as a
Natural Chemical Laboratory in
Eighteenth-Century Italy . . . . . . . . 245--265
Gabriel Moshenska Michael Faraday's Contributions to
Archaeological Chemistry . . . . . . . . 266--286
Ximo Guillem-Llobat Science and the Regulation of Toxicants
in Historical Perspective . . . . . . . 287--291
Judith Mawer and
Sean F. Johnston and
Mariachiara Di Matteo and
Catarina Madruga and
Ana Simões and
Josep Simon and
Joel Vargas-Domínguez and
Robert Bud and
Simon Werrett and
Sacha Tomic and
David Knight Reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 292--303
Ana Maria Alfonso-Goldfarb and
Hasok Chang and
Marcia H. M. Ferraz and
Jennifer M. Rampling and
Silvia Waisse Chemical Knowledge in Transit . . . . . 305--311
Andréa Bortolotto Johann Andreas Cramer and Chemical
Mineral Assay in the Eighteenth Century 312--332
Robert G. W. Anderson Teaching the Chemistry of Platinum . . . 333--344
Cristiana Loureiro de Mendonça Couto The Chemistry of Diet: Medicine,
Nutrition, and Staple Foods in Imperial
Brazil . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 345--362
Frank A. J. L. James ``Agricultural Chymistry is at present
in it's infancy'': The Board of
Agriculture, The Royal Institution and
Humphry Davy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 363--385
Marcos Martinón-Torres and
David Knight and
Sacha Tomic and
Jeffrey Allan Johnson and
William H. Brock and
Néstor Herran and
Marina Maestrutti and
Hjalmar Fors Laboratories of Art. Alchemy and Art
Technology from Antiquity to the 18th
Century . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 386--396
Claus Priesner Legends about Legends: Abraham Eleazar's
Adaptation of Nicolas Flamel . . . . . . 1--27
G. Jeffery Leigh and
Alan J. Rocke Women and Chemistry in Regency England:
New Light on the Marcet Circle . . . . . 28--45
Ian D. Rae Theory versus Practice in the
Twentieth-Century Search for the Ideal
Anaesthetic Gas . . . . . . . . . . . . 46--65
Jonathan Simon The Shaping of Modern Pharmacy . . . . . 66--70
Gabriele Ferrario Art and Alchemy: The Mystery of
Transformation . . . . . . . . . . . . . 71--72
Lawrence M. Principe Boyle Studies: Aspects of the Life and
Thought of Robert Boyle (1627-91) . . . 72--73
Marcus B. Carrier Experimentalisierung und internationale
Kommunikationen: Der Fall Curare.
(German) [Experimentalization and
International Communications: The Curare
Case] . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 73--74
Helge Kragh Book Review: \booktitleThe Lost
Elements: The Periodic Table's Shadow
Side. By Marco Fontani, Mariagrazia
Costa, and Mary Virginia Orna. Pp.
xxxvii + 531. Oxford University Press:
Oxford. 2015. ISBN 0-19-938334-0 . . . . 74--75
Pedro Ruiz-Castell Scientific Instruments on Display . . . 75--76
Ana Carneiro From Local Patriotism to a Planetary
Perspective: Impact Crater Research in
Germany, 1930s--1970s . . . . . . . . . 77--78
Barbara Orland Gift in der Nahrung. Zur Genese der
Verbraucherpolitik Mitte des 20.
Jahrhunderts. (German) [Poison in the
food. The genesis of consumer policy in
the mid-20th century] . . . . . . . . . 78--79
Joseph M. Gabriel Bioproperty, Biomedicine and
Deliberative Governance: Patents as
Discourse of Life . . . . . . . . . . . 79--80
Bernadette Bensaude-Vincent Scientific Babel: The Language of
Science from the Fall of Latin to the
Rise of English . . . . . . . . . . . . 80--82
David Knight Philosophy of Chemistry: Growth of a New
Discipline . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 82--83
Anonymous The Partington Prize 2017 . . . . . . . 84--84
Hjalmar Fors and
Lawrence M. Principe and
H. Otto Sibum From the Library to the Laboratory and
Back Again: Experiment as a Tool for
Historians of Science . . . . . . . . . 85--97
Sébastien Moureau and
Nicolas Thomas Understanding Texts with the Help of
Experimentation: The Example of
Cupellation in Arabic Scientific
Literature . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 98--117
Lawrence M. Principe Chymical Exotica in the Seventeenth
Century, or, How to Make the Bologna
Stone . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 118--144
Haileigh Robertson Reworking Seventeenth-Century Saltpetre 145--161
Nils-Otto Ahnfelt and
Hjalmar Fors Making Early Modern Medicine:
Reproducing Swedish Bitters . . . . . . 162--183
Anonymous The Partington Prize 2017 . . . . . . . 184--184
Judith Mawer Bridging Traditions: Alchemy, Chemistry,
and Paracelsian Practices in the Early
Modern Era . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 185--186
Patrick Wallis Panaceia's Daughters: Noblewomen as
Healers in Early Modern Germany . . . . 186--187
Edward Allen Driggers Uroscopy in Early Modern Europe . . . . 188--189
Jan Golinski The Cradle of Chemistry: The Early Years
of Chemistry at the University of
Edinburgh . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 189--190
Thijs Hagendijk Humboldts Preußen. Wissenschaft und
Technik im Aufbruch. (German)
[Humboldt's Prussia. Science and
Technology on the move] . . . . . . . . 190--191
David Knight Book Review: \booktitlePure
Intelligence: The Life of William Hyde
Wollaston . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 191--192
Leslie Tomory James Watt: Making the World Anew . . . 192--193
William H. Brock Otto Linné Erdmann an Justus von Liebig
--- kommentierte Briefe von 1853 bis
1867. (German) [Otto Linné Erdmann to
Justus von Liebig --- annotated letters
from 1853 to 1867] . . . . . . . . . . . 193--194
Silvia Pérez Banned: a History of Pesticides and the
Science of Toxicology . . . . . . . . . 194--195
María-José Báguena Book Review: \booktitleJonas Salk. A
Life . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 196--197
Viviane Quirke The British Pharmacopoeia, 1864 to 2014:
Medicines, International Standards and
the State . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 197--197
Maria Chiara Succurro The \booktitleLiber Compostelle
Attributed to Friar Bonaventura of Iseo:
The Textual Tradition of a
Thirteenth-Century Alchemical
Encyclopedia . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 199--216
Rafa\l T. Prinke New Light on the Alchemical Writings of
Michael Sendivogius (1566--1636) . . . . 217--243
Isabella Whitworth and
Zvi C. Koren Orchil and Tyrian Purple: Two Centuries
of Bedfords from Leeds . . . . . . . . . 244--267
Jennifer M. Rampling The Englishing of Medieval Alchemy . . . 268--272
Robert G. W. Anderson Fakes!? Hoaxes, Counterfeits and
Deception in Early Modern Science . . . 273--274
Agustí Nieto-Galan Science in Wonderland: The Scientific
Fairy Tales of Victorian Britain . . . . 274--275
Miguel García-Sancho The Recombinant University: Genetic
Engineering and the Emergence of
Stanford Biotechnology . . . . . . . . . 275--276
Peter Morris Moore's Law: The Life of Gordon Moore,
Silicon Valley's Quiet Revolutionary . . 277--277
Anita Kildebæk Nielsen Akademi og industri. Kjemiutdanning og
-forskning ved NTNU gjennom 100 år.
(Norwegian) [Academy and industry.
Chemical education and chemical research
at NTNU over 100 years] . . . . . . . . 277--278
Viviane Quirke Biologics. A History of Agents Made From
Living Organisms in the Twentieth
Century . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 279--280
Jonathan Simon Gendered Drugs and Medicine. Historical
and Socio-Cultural Perspectives . . . . 280--281
Ana Simões Making 20th Century Science. How
Theories Became Knowledge . . . . . . . 281--282
Anonymous The Partington Prize 2017 . . . . . . . 283--283
Dorothea Heitsch Descartes, Cardiac Heat, and Alchemy . . 285--303
José Vieira Leitão Alchemy, Prophecy, and Politics in
Eighteenth-Century Iberia: Anselmo
Castelo Branco's Critique of Benito
Feijoo . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 304--325
Marcin Krasnodebski From Distillation to Standardization: a
French Perspective on the Shaping of
Turpentine Spirit (1909--1976) . . . . . 326--346
Sacha Tomic The History of Chemistry: a Very Short
Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 347--348
Bernadette Bensaude-Vincent The Restless Clock: a History of the
Centuries-Long Argument Over What Makes
Living Things Tick . . . . . . . . . . . 348--350
David Knight The Experimental Self: Humphry Davy and
the Making of a Man of Science . . . . . 350--351
William H. Brock Early Responses to the Periodic System 351--352
Peter Morris Entrepreneurial Ventures in Chemistry:
The Muspratts of Liverpool, 1793--1934 352--353
Ian Burney A History of Forensic Science: British
Beginnings in the Twentieth Century . . 353--355
Nestor Herran Radium and the Secret of Life . . . . . 355--356
Xavier Roqué Book Review: \booktitleMaking Marie
Curie: Intellectual Property and
Celebrity Culture in an Age of
Information . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 356--357
Adriana Minor Cold War Science and the Transatlantic
Circulation of Knowledge . . . . . . . . 357--358
William H. Brock Friedrich August Genth aus Wächersbach
und die Entdeckung der ersten
NiO-Kristalle am Marburger chemischen
Institut unter Robert Wilhelm Bunsen.
(German) [Friedrich August Genth from
Wächersbach and the discovery of the
first NiO crystals at the Marburg
Chemical Institute under Robert Wilhelm
Bunsen] . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 359--359
José Ramón Bertomeu Sánchez Paul J. Crutzen: a Pioneer on
Atmospheric Chemistry and Climate Change
in the Anthropocene . . . . . . . . . . 359--360
José Ramón Bertomeu Sánchez Alchemy in the Rain Forest: Politics,
Ecology, and Resilience in a New Guinea
Mining Area . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 360--360
José Ramón Bertomeu Sánchez Chemistry Education and Contributions
from History and Philosophy of Science 360--361
Anonymous Society for the History of Alchemy and
Chemistry Award Scheme 2017 . . . . . . 362--362
Anthony S. Travis Globalising Synthetic Nitrogen: The
Interwar Inauguration of a New Industry 1--28
Fabrizio Bigotti A Previously Unknown Path to
Corpuscularism in the Seventeenth
Century: Santorio's \booktitleMarginalia
to the \booktitleCommentaria in Primam
Fen Primi Libri Canonis Avicennae (1625) 29--42
W. H. Brock British School Chemistry Laboratories,
1830--1920 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43--65
Leon Gortler and
Stephen J. Weininger Private Philanthropy and Basic Research
in Mid-Twentieth Century America: The
Hickrill Chemical Research Foundation 66--94
Marta Musso Coal, Oil, and Empire . . . . . . . . . 95--98
Gabriele Ferrario La messe alchimique attribuée \`a
Melchior de Sibiu. (French) [The
alchemical mass attributed to Melchior
de Sibiu] . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 99--100
Anna Marie Roos An Alchemical Quest for Universal
Knowledge: The `Christian Philosophy' of
Jan Baptist Van Helmont (1579--1644) . . 100--101
William H. Brock The Chemistry Department at Imperial
College London. A History, 1845--2000 101--102
Ana Carneiro Review: Amadeo Avogadro. Relazioni
Accademiche . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 103--103
Katherine D. Watson Toxic Histories: Poison and Pollution in
Modern India . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 104--105
Robert G. W. Anderson The Matter Factory: a History of the
Chemistry Laboratory . . . . . . . . . . 105--106
Stephen Clucas John Dee, Alchemy, and Print Culture . . 107--114
Peter J. Forshaw The Hermetic Frontispiece:
Contextualising John Dee's Hieroglyphic
Monad . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 115--139
Stephen Clucas The Royal Typographer and the Alchemist:
John Dee, Willem Silvius, and the
Diagrammatic Alchemy of the
\booktitleMonas Hieroglyphica . . . . . 140--156
Steven Vanden Broecke The Ideal of a Knowledge Society in
Dee's \booktitleMonas Hieroglyphica
(1564) and Other Productions by Willem
Silvius . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 157--174
Manuel Mertens Willem Silvius: ``Typographical Parent''
of John Dee's \booktitleMonas
Hieroglyphica . . . . . . . . . . . . . 175--189
John Henry Magic in Western Culture: From Antiquity
to the Enlightenment . . . . . . . . . . 190--191
Rémi Franckowiak Le fixe et le volatil. Chimie et
alchimie, de Paracelse \`a Lavoisier.
(French) [The fixed and the volatile.
Chemistry and Alchemy, from Paracelsus
to Lavoisier] . . . . . . . . . . . . . 191--192
Anna Marie Roos The Leibniz-Stahl Controversy . . . . . 192--193
Ximo Guillem-Llobat Autonomous Nature: Problems of
Prediction and Control from Ancient
Times to the Scientific Revolution . . . 194--195
Vangelis Antzoulatos Julius Thomsen. A Life in Chemistry and
Beyond . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 195--196
Ignacio Suay-Matallana Healing with Water: English Spas and the
Water Cure, 1840--1960 . . . . . . . . . 196--197
Cristina Chimisso Les identités multiples d'Émile Meyerson.
(French) [The multiple identities of
Émile Meyerson] . . . . . . . . . . . . . 197--199
Bernadette Bensaude-Vincent Science in the Public Sphere: a History
of Lay Knowledge and Expertise . . . . . 199--200
Anonymous 2018 Morris Award: Call for Nominations 201--201
Anonymous Society for the History of Alchemy and
Chemistry: E-mail Communications with
Members . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 202--202
Athanasios Rinotas Stoicism and Alchemy in Late Antiquity:
Zosimus and the Concept of \em Pneuma 203--219
George Saliba A New Alchemical Poem Attributed to
Khalid b. Yazid (d. \em ca. 705) . . . . 220--233
Ignacio-Miguel Pascual-Valderrama and
Joaquín Pérez-Pariente The Alchemical Manuscripts of David
Lindsay (1587--1641), Lord Lindsay of
Balcarres . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 234--262
Andrew Lacey The Chemical Club: an Early
Nineteenth-Century Scientific Dining
Club . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 263--282
Sacha Tomic A History of Modern Chemistry . . . . . 283--284
Georgiana Hedesan La Porta Magica di Roma, simbolo
dell'alchimia occidentale. (Italian)
[The Magic Door of Rome, symbol of
Western alchemy] . . . . . . . . . . . . 284--285
Jorge Cañizares-Esguerra The Matter of Empire: Metaphysics and
Mining in Colonial Peru . . . . . . . . 286--287
Jan Golinski The Personality of Henry Cavendish: a
Great Scientist with Extraordinary
Peculiarities . . . . . . . . . . . . . 287--288
José Ramón Bertomeu Sánchez Amedeo Avogadro. Lettere . . . . . . . . 289--289
Ernst Homburg Aus der Luft gewonnen. Die Entwicklung
der globalen Gaseindustrie, 1880 bis
2012/Building on Air. The International
Industrial Gases Industry, 1886--2006 289--291
William H. Brock Book Review: \booktitleHolding Hands
with Bacteria. The Life and Work of
Marjory Stephenson . . . . . . . . . . . 291--292
William H. Brock LEMCO. Un coloso de la industria cárnica
en Fray Bentos, Uruguay. (The Meat
Industry's Colossus in Fray Bentos,
Uruguay) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 293--293
Jennifer M. Rampling The Future of the History of Chemistry 295--300
Stephen T. Irish The Corundum Stone and Crystallographic
Chemistry . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 301--325
Matteo Martelli Translating Ancient Alchemy: Fragments
of Graeco--Egyptian Alchemy in Arabic
Compendia . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 326--342
Angela N. H. Creager A Chemical Reaction to the
Historiography of Biology . . . . . . . 343--359
Hasok Chang What History Tells Us about the Distinct
Nature of Chemistry . . . . . . . . . . 360--374
José Pardo-Tomás American Drugs and Early Modern Europe:
New Ways of Telling an Old Story . . . . 375--377
David Knight The Oxford Illustrated History of
Science . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 378--379
Vincenzo Carlotta I ricettari del codice 52 della
Historical Medical Library di New Haven
(XIII sec. u.q.). (Italian) [Recipes of
code 52 of the Historical Medical
Library of New Haven (XIII Century. u.
q.)] . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 379--380
Christopher Hamlin The History of the London Water
Industry, 1580--1820 . . . . . . . . . . 381--382
Leslie Tomory The Imagined Empire: Balloon
Enlightenments in Revolutionary Europe 382--384
Xavier Roqué One Hundred Years of the Bohr Atom.
Proceedings from a Conference . . . . . 384--385
Ernst Homburg Adding Value: Tasmanian Alkaloids
1975--2015 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 385--386
Stefan Pohl-Valero Setting Nutritional Standards. Theory,
Policies, Practices . . . . . . . . . . 386--388
Akinobu Takabayashi Book Review: \booktitleKagakushi Jiten
[\booktitleEncyclopedic Dictionary of
the History of Chemistry] . . . . . . . 388--389
Anonymous Society for the History of Alchemy and
Chemistry Award Scheme 2018 . . . . . . 390--391
Mary Jo Nye and
Stephen J. Weininger Paper Tools from the 1780s to the 1960s:
Nomenclature, Classification, and
Representations . . . . . . . . . . . . 1--8
Wolfgang Lef\`evre The \booktitleMéthode de nomenclature
chimique (1787): a Document of
Transition . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9--29
Michael D. Gordin Paper Tools and Periodic Tables:
Newlands and Mendeleev Draw Grids . . . 30--51
Stephen J. Weininger Delayed Reaction: The Tardy Embrace of
Physical Organic Chemistry by the German
Chemical Community . . . . . . . . . . . 52--75
Evan Hepler-Smith Paper Chemistry: François Dagognet and
the Chemical Graph . . . . . . . . . . . 76--98
Ignacio Suay-Matallana and
Ximo Guillem-Llobat Poisoned Wine: Regulation, Chemical
Analyses, and Spanish--French Trade in
the 1930s . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 99--121
Mike A. Zuber The Duke, the Soldier of Fortune, and a
Rosicrucian Legacy: Exploring the Roles
of Manuscripts in Early-Modern Alchemy 122--142
Andrei Vinogradov and
Stanislav Petriashin Chemical Industry, the Environment, and
Russian Provincial Society: The Case of
the Kokshan Chemical Works (1850--1925) 143--168
Amy Fisher Robert Hare's Theory of Galvanism: a
Study of Heat and Electricity in Early
Nineteenth-Century American Chemistry 169--189
Wolfgang Lef\`evre Animal, Vegetable, Mineral? How
Eighteenth-Century Science Disrupted the
Natural Order . . . . . . . . . . . . . 191--192
Megan Piorko L'Alchimie \`a livres ouverts: En quête
des secrets de la mati\`ere: livres et
manuscrits du XVIe au XXe si\`ecle.
(French) [Alchemy in open books: a quest
for the secrets of matter: books and
manuscripts of the XVIth to XXth
century] . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 192--193
Jeffrey A. Johnson Chemiker im ``Dritten Reich'': Die
Deutsche Chemische Gesellschaft und der
Verein Deutscher Chemiker im
NS-Herrschaftsapparat. (German)
[Chemists in the ``Third Reich'': The
German Chemical Society and the German
Chemical Union in the National Socialist
apparatus of domination] . . . . . . . . 193--194
Robert Bud Synthetic: How Life Got Made . . . . . . 194--196
Annette Lykknes Kunskap och kemisk industri i $
1800$-talets Sverige. (Swedish) [Science
and chemical industry in 19th Century
Sweden] . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 196--197
Judith Mawer Alchemy, Medicine, and Commercial Book
Production: A Codicological and
Linguistic Study of the Voigts--Sloane
Manuscript Group . . . . . . . . . . . . 197--199
Peter Morris Fake Silk: The Lethal History of Viscose
Rayon . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 199--200
Andrew Campbell and
Lorenza Gianfrancesco and
Neil Tarrant Alchemy and the Mendicant Orders of Late
Medieval and Early Modern Europe . . . . 201--209
Neil Tarrant Between Aquinas and Eymerich: The Roman
Inquisition's Use of Dominican Thought
in the Censorship of Alchemy . . . . . . 210--231
Peter Murray Jones The Survival of the \booktitleFrater
Medicus? English Friars and Alchemy, \em
ca. 1370--\em ca. 1425 . . . . . . . . . 232--249
Lorenza Gianfrancesco Books, Gold, and Elixir: Alchemy and
Religious Orders in Early Modern Naples 250--274
Justin Rivest The Chymical Capuchins of the Louvre:
Seminal Principles and Charitable
Vocations in France under Louis XIV . . 275--295
Helge Kragh Book Review: \booktitleWilhelm Ostwald.
The Autobiography . . . . . . . . . . . 296--297
Adriana Minor Book Review: \booktitleParallel Lives:
Two Hoosier Chemists from Peru . . . . . 297--298
Sacha Tomic Book Review: \booktitleLa Navelbine\reg
et le Taxot\`ere\reg: Histoires de
sciences . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 298--300
Peter J. Ramberg Book Review: \booktitleThe Chemical
Century: Molecular Manipulation and Its
Impact on the 20th Century . . . . . . . 300--301
Marieke M. A. Hendriksen Boerhaave's Mineral Chemistry and Its
Influence on Eighteenth-Century Pharmacy
in The Netherlands and England . . . . . 303--323
Rafal T. Prinke and
Mike A. Zuber Alchemical Patronage and the Making of
an Adept: Letters of Michael Sendivogius
to Emperor Rudolf II and His Chamberlain
Hans Popp . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 324--355
Seth C. Rasmussen Revisiting the Early History of
Synthetic Polymers: Critiques and New
Insights . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 356--372
Stephen T. Irish James Smithson on the Calamines:
Chemical Combination in Crystals . . . . 373--397
Sally M. Horrocks Book Review: \booktitleA Chemical
Passion: The Forgotten Story of
Chemistry at British Independent Girls'
Schools, 1820s--1930s . . . . . . . . . 398--399
Peter Morris Book Review: \booktitleA World History
of Rubber: Empire, Industry, and the
Everyday . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 399
Anna Marie Roos Book Review: \booktitleIsaac Newton and
Natural Philosophy. Renaissance Lives
Series . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 399--400
Kristoffer Whitney Book Review: \booktitleSmell Detectives:
An Olfactory History of
Nineteenth-Century Urban America . . . . 400--402
Jan Golinski Book Review: \booktitleCompound
Histories: Materials, Governance and
Production, 1760--1840 . . . . . . . . . 402--404
Sarah Lowengard Book Review: \booktitleA Perfect Ground:
Preparatory Layers for Oil Paintings
1550--1900 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 404--405
Jo Kirby Book Review: \booktitleTreasures from
the Sea: Sea Silk and Shellfish Purple
Dye in Antiquity . . . . . . . . . . . . 405--407
Nestor Herran Book Review: \booktitlePolonium in the
Playhouse: The Manhattan Project's
Secret Chemistry Work in Dayton, Ohio.
Linda Carrick Thomas. Pp. 247, illus.,
index. The Ohio State University Press:
Columbus. 2017. \pounds 23 (cloth).
ISBN: 978-0-8142-1338-4 . . . . . . . . 407--408
Renée J. Raphael Book Review: \booktitleSilver by Fire,
Silver by Mercury: a Chemical History of
Silver Refining in New Spain and Mexico,
16th to 19th Centuries . . . . . . . . . 408--410
Curtis Runstedler Book Review: \booktitleChaucer the
Alchemist: Physics, Mutability, and the
Medieval Imagination . . . . . . . . . . 410--411
Ximo Guillem-Llobat Book Review: \booktitleOne Hundred Years
of Chemical Warfare: Research,
Deployment, Consequences . . . . . . . . 411--412
Charlotte A. Abney Salomon The Pocket Laboratory: The Blowpipe in
Eighteenth-Century Swedish Chemistry . . 1--22
Carolyn Cobbold Adulation or Adulteration? Representing
Chemical Dyes in the Victorian Media . . 23--50
Vangelis Antzoulatos Berthelot's Pathway from Synthesis to
Thermochemistry . . . . . . . . . . . . 51--71
Meagan S. Allen Revisiting Isaac Newton's
\booktitleIndex Chemicus: a Response to
Richard S. Westfall . . . . . . . . . . 72--81
William H. Brock Book Review: \booktitleThe Measure of
All Things. A History of Analytical
Chemistry . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 82--82
Didier Kahn Book Review: \booktitleLux in Tenebris:
The Visual and the Symbolic in Western
Esotericism . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 82--83
Cornelis J. Schilt Book Review: \booktitleReading Newton in
Early Modern Europe . . . . . . . . . . 83--85
Michael Jewess Book Review: \booktitleFor Science, King
and Country: The Life and Legacy of
Henry Moseley . . . . . . . . . . . . . 85--87
Cassandra Gorman Book Review: \booktitleFictional Matter:
Empiricism, Corpuscles, and the Novel 87--88
Marieke Hendriksen Book Review: \booktitleThe Structures of
Practical Knowledge . . . . . . . . . . 88--90
Georgette Taylor Book Review: \booktitleThe Chemical
Works of Carl Wilhelm Scheele . . . . . 90--92
Anonymous Announcement: Society for the History of
Alchemy and Chemistry Award Scheme 2019 93--94
Frank A. J. L. James and
Sharon Ruston New Studies on Humphry Davy:
Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 95--102
Hattie Lloyd Edmondson Chivalrous Chemistry . . . . . . . . . . 103--120
Sharon Ruston Humphry Davy: Analogy, Priority, and the
``true philosopher'' . . . . . . . . . . 121--139
Gregory Tate Humphry Davy and the Problem of Analogy 140--157
Tim Fulford Davy Takes to the Hills: Dialogic
Enquiry and the Aesthetics of the
Prospect View . . . . . . . . . . . . . 158--180
Jan Golinski ``The Fitness of Their Union'': Travel
and Health in the Letters of Humphry and
Jane Davy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 181--194
Andrew Lacey New Light on John Davy . . . . . . . . . 195--213
Frank A. J. L. James Constructing Humphry Davy's Biographical
Image . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 214--238
David Knight Sources and Resources for Davy: 1960 and
Now . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 239--245
William H. Brock David Marcus Knight (1936--2018): an
Appreciation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 246--263
Anonymous The Partington Prize 2020 . . . . . . . 264--264
Alan J. Rocke Lothar Meyer's Pathway to Periodicity 265--302
Frank A. J. L. James Humphry Davy's Early Chemical Knowledge,
Theory and Experiments: an Edition of
His 1798 Manuscript, ``\booktitleAn
Essay on Heat and the Combinations of
Light'' from The Royal Institution of
Cornwall, Courtney Library, MS DVY/2 . . 303--345
William H. Brock A German Partington . . . . . . . . . . 346--352
Erland Mårald Nitrogen Capture: The Growth of an
International Industry (1900--1940) . . 353--354
Laura Perucchetti Metals, Minds and Mobility: Integrating
Scientific Data with Archaeological
Theory . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 354--356
Katherine Allen Recipes and Everyday Knowledge:
Medicine, Science, and the Household in
Early Modern England . . . . . . . . . . 356--358
Stefan Laube Book Review: \booktitleDas Erbe des
Nikolaus von Kues im Spiegel der
Alchemie, by Witalij Morosow. Pp. 268,
illus., index. Aschendorff: Münster.
2018. EUR 39.00. ISBN:
978-3-402-16005-3. (German) [The Legacy
of Nicholas of Cusa in the Mirror of
Alchemy] . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 358--360
Matteo Vagelli Book Review: \booktitleWhen
Historiography Met Epistemology:
Sophisticated Histories and Philosophies
of Science in French-speaking Countries
in the Second Half of the Nineteenth
Century, by Stefano Bordoni. Pp. 335,
index. Brill: Leiden. 2017. \pounds
130.00. ISBN 978-90-04-31522-8 . . . . . 360--362
Ernst Homburg Book Review: \booktitleLe Patrimoine
Industriel de la Chimie. A Special Issue
of Patrimoine Industriel --- Archéologie
--- Technique --- Mémoire, no. 69, by
Florence Hachez-Leroy. Pp. 152, illus.
Cilac: Paris. 2016. \pounds 22.00. ISSN:
0220-5521 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 362--364
Howard G. Barth Book Review: \booktitleThe Alchemist in
Literature: From Dante to the Present,
by Theodore Ziolkowski. Pp. 237 + x,
illus., index. Oxford University Press:
Oxford. 2015. \pounds 74.00 . . . . . . 364--365
Karoliina Pulkkinen Book Review: \booktitleMendeleev to
Oganesson: A Multidisciplinary
Perspective on the Periodic Table,
edited by Eric Scerri and Guillermo
Restrepo. Pp. 328, illus., index. Oxford
University Press: New York. 2018.
\pounds 80.00. ISBN: 978-0-19-066853-2 365--367
William G. Clarence-Smith Book Review: \booktitleRubber and the
Making of Vietnam: an Ecological
History, 1897--1975, by Michitake Aso.
Pp. 405 + xvii, illus., index. The
University of North Carolina Press:
Chapel Hill. 2018. \pounds 70
(hardcover), \pounds 25.30 (paperback),
\pounds 18.40 (ebook). ISBN:
978-1-4696-3714-3 (hardcover),
978-1-4696-3715-0 (paperback),
978-1-4696-3716-7 (ebook) . . . . . . . 367--368
Sheila Barker Book Review: \booktitleLa farmacia
granducale di Firenze, By Giovanni
Piccardi. Pp. 131, illus., index. Leo S.
Olschki: Florence. 2018. \pounds 17.00.
ISBN 978-8-82-226566-1. (Italian) [The
grand-ducal pharmacy of Florence] . . . 368--369
Anonymous Society for the History of Alchemy and
Chemistry Award Scheme 2020 . . . . . . 370--371
Didier Kahn and
Hiro Hirai Paracelsus, Forgeries and Transmutation:
Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1--3
Urs Leo Gantenbein Real or Fake? New Light on the
Paracelsian \booktitleDe natura rerum 4--29
William R. Newman Bad Chemistry: Basilisks and Women in
Paracelsus and pseudo-Paracelsus . . . . 30--46
Amadeo Murase The Homunculus and the Paracelsian
\booktitleLiber de imaginibus . . . . . 47--61
Andrew Sparling Paracelsus, a Transmutational Alchemist 62--87
Urs Leo Gantenbein Cross and Crucible: Alchemy in the
Theology of Paracelsus . . . . . . . . . 88--99
Stephen T. Irish Gems in the Early Modern World:
Materials, Knowledge and Global Trade,
1450--1800 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 100--101
Marieke Hendriksen Technology: Critical History of a
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Agustí Nieto-Galan Poisonous Skies: Acid Rain and the
Globalization of Pollution . . . . . . . 103--104
Olivier Dufault Greek Alchemy from Late Antiquity to
Early Modernity . . . . . . . . . . . . 104--106
Linda A. Newson Alchemy and Chemical Medicines in Early
Colonial Lima, Peru . . . . . . . . . . 107--134
Nicola Polloni A Matter of Philosophers and Spheres:
Medieval Glosses on Artephius's
\booktitleKey of Wisdom . . . . . . . . 135--152
Hilde Norrgrén An Alchemist in Greenland: Hans Egede
(1686--1758) and Alchemical Practice in
the Colony of Hope . . . . . . . . . . . 153--173
Karoliina Pulkkinen Values in the Development of Early
Periodic Tables . . . . . . . . . . . . 174--198
William H. Brock Perspectives on Chemical Biography in
the 21st Century . . . . . . . . . . . . 199--200
Patricia Fara American Lucifers: The Dark History of
Artificial Light . . . . . . . . . . . . 200--202
Evan Hepler-Smith The Etymology of Chemical Names:
Tradition and Convenience vs.
Rationality in Chemical Nomenclature . . 202--203
Mat Paskins Thrifty Science: Making the Most of
Materials in the History of Experiment 203--205
Viviane Quirke and
Peter Reed Chemistry, Consultants, and Companies,
c. 1850--2000: Introduction . . . . . . 207--213
Robin Mackie and
Gerrylynn Roberts Consultancy as a Career in Late
Nineteenth and Twentieth Century Britain 214--233
Anna Simmons A Life of ``Continuous and Honourable
Usefulness:'' Chemical Consulting and
the Career of Robert Warington
(1807--1867) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 234--251
Peter Reed George E. Davis (1850--1907): Transition
From Consultant Chemist to Consultant
Chemical Engineer in a Period of
Economic Pressure . . . . . . . . . . . 252--270
Annette Lykknes The Chemistry Professor as Consultant at
the Norwegian Institute of Technology,
1910--1930 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 271--288
Viviane Quirke Imperial Chemical Industries and Craig
Jordan, ``the First Tamoxifen
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Robert Bud Fluid Careers and Cold War Boundaries 308--312
William H. Brock Noel George Coley (1927--2020) . . . . . 313--314
William H. Brock Pioneering British Women Chemists. Their
Lives and Contributions . . . . . . . . 315--316
William R. Newman Painted Alchemists: Early Modern
Artistry and Experiment in the Work of
Thomas Wijck . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 316--317
Carolyn Cobbold Pure Adulteration: Cheating on Nature in
the Age of Manufactured Food . . . . . . 318--319
Gerasimos Merianos Early Greek Alchemy, Patronage and
Innovation in Late Antiquity . . . . . . 319--321
Anonymous Partington Prize 2020 . . . . . . . . . 322--322
Thijs Hagendijk and
Márcia Vilarigues and
Sven Dupré Materials, Furnaces, and Texts: How to
Write About Making Glass Colours in the
Seventeenth Century . . . . . . . . . . 323--345
Theodore R. Delwiche \em Fuit Ille non Empiricus Mercenarius:
Apprehensions to Alchemy in Colonial New
England . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 346--365
Jole Shackelford Chemical Paradigm vs. Biological
Paradigm in the Biological Clock
Controversy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 366--388
William H. Brock The Curious Story of the Chemical
Society's Missing Obituary of John Lloyd
Bullock . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 389--399
Cornelis J. Schilt A True Adept . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 400--407
Bruce Janacek The Historic Role of Alchemy in the Holy
Roman Empire . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 408--415
Curtis Runstedler Book Review: \booktitleYmage de Vie:
Spéculation et Expérimentation dans un
Traité d'Alchimie Médiévale, by Genevi\`eve
Dumas. Pp. 293, illus., index. Presses
universitaires de la Méditerranée:
Montpellier. 2019. \pounds 19. ISBN:
978-2-36781-323-3 . . . . . . . . . . . 416--417
Fred Kim Book Review: \booktitleNatural knowledge
and Aristotelianism at Early Modern
Protestant Universities, Edited by
Pietro Daniel Omodeo and Volkhard Wels.
Pp. 342, illus. Harrassowitz Verlag:
Wiesbaden. 2019. \pounds 65, free ebook
on publisher's website. ISBN
978-3-447-11265-9 . . . . . . . . . . . 418--419
William H. Brock Book Review: \booktitle``Liebig lebt!''
100 Jahre Liebig Museum im Laboratorium,
Edited by Eduard Alter. Pp. 33, illus.
Liebig Museum: Giessen. 2020. EUR 6.Das
Liebig-Laboratorium von seinen Anfängen
bis in die Gegenwart. Festschrift zum
100Jährigen Jubiläum des Liebigs-Museum.
(Berichte der Justus Liebig-Gesellschaft
zu Giessen. Band 10). By Franziska
Müller. Pp. 173, illus. Justus
Liebig-Gesellschaft: Giessen. 2020. EUR
14. ISSN: 0940-3426 . . . . . . . . . . 419--420
Anonymous 2021 Morris Award: Call for Nominations 421--422
Alan J. Rocke A Woman's Life Alongside Chemistry: The
Memoirs of Theresa Kopp Baumann . . . . 1--27
Mike A. Zuber Alchemical Promise, the Fraud Narrative,
and the History of Science from Below: a
German Adept's Encounter with Robert
Boyle and Ambrose Godfrey . . . . . . . 28--48
Mark I. Grossman John Dalton's ``Aha'' Moment: the Origin
of the Chemical Atomic Theory . . . . . 49--71
José Ramón Bertomeu Sánchez Lead Poisoning in France around 1840:
Managing Proofs and Uncertainties in
Laboratories, Courtrooms, and Workplaces 72--96
Theresa Levitt Morphine Dreams: Auguste Laurent and the
Active Principles of Organised Matter 97--115
Anonymous Society for the History of Alchemy and
Chemistry Award Scheme 2021 . . . . . . 116--117
Ute Frietsch Alchemy and the Early Modern University:
an Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . 119--134
Bruce T. Moran Court Authority and the University:
Networks, Recipes, and
Things-in-the-Making vs. the
Abstractions of Made Things . . . . . . 135--153
Elisabeth Moreau Learning the Chymical Compromise:
Paracelsian and Galenic Medicine in
Marburg Disputations on
\booktitleChymiatria . . . . . . . . . . 154--179
Lawrence M. Principe The Changing Visions of Chymistry at
Seventeenth-Century Jena: The Two
Brendels, Rolfinck, Wedel, and Others 180--197
Hiro Hirai Daniel Sennert, Chymistry, and
Theological Debates . . . . . . . . . . 198--213
Ku-ming (Kevin) Chang From University to Court: The Reversal
of Stahl's Positions on Gold-Making . . 214--230
Georgiana D. Hedesan The Influence of Louvain Teaching on Jan
Baptist Van Helmont's Adoption of
Paracelsianism and Alchemy . . . . . . . 231--246
Didier Kahn The First Private and Public Courses of
Chymistry in Paris (and Italy) from Jean
Beguin to William Davisson . . . . . . . 247--272
Ute Frietsch Making University Fields for Chymistry:
a Case Study of Helmstedt University . . 273--301
Yasu Furukawa Exploring the History of Chemistry in
Japan . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 302--317
Olin Moctezuma-Burns Compound Remedies: Galenic Pharmacy from
the Ancient Mediterranean to New Spain 318--319
Peter Murray Jones The Experimental Fire: Inventing English
Alchemy, 1300--1700 . . . . . . . . . . 319--321
William Eamon Paracelsus: an Alchemical Life . . . . . 321--323
Michael Bycroft The Transmutations of Chymistry: Wilhelm
Homberg and the Académie Royale des
Sciences . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 323--325
Ximo Guillem-Llobat `?Entre el fiscal y el verdugo? Mateu
Orfila i Rotger (1787--1853) y la
toxicología del siglo XIX. (Spanish)
[Between the prosecutor and the
executioner? Mateu Orfila i Rotger
(1787--1853) and the toxicology of the
XIX century] . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 325--326
Sarah Hijmans Technoscience in History: Prussia,
1750-1850 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 326--327
William H. Brock The Chemical Age. How Chemists Fought
Famine and Disease, Killed Millions, and
Changed Our Relationship with the Earth 327--328
Anonymous Morris Award 2021 . . . . . . . . . . . 329--330
Sean O'Neil Good Names but Better Symbols: The
Establishment of Chemical Notation as a
Nomenclatural Corrective at the Turn of
the Nineteenth Century . . . . . . . . . 331--364
Arnaud Page and
Maxime Guesnon \em Glutenophilia: Chemistry and Flour
Quality in Nineteenth-century France and
Great Britain . . . . . . . . . . . . . 365--384
Marcin Krasnodebski The Meandering Life of a Research
Trajectory: Rare Earths in the
Aubervilliers Research Centre
(1953-2020) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 385--406
William H. Brock and
Michael Jewess Unwise Relationships and an Unsound
Valence Theory: The Chemical Career of
Robert Fergus Hunter (1904--1963) . . . 407--430
Guillaume Delmeulle At the Origins of the \booktitleDe
Perfecto Magisterio: a Translation from
Arabic or a Latin Composition? . . . . . 431--441
Frank A. J. L. James A Chemical Satire on the 1809 Change of
Government in Britain . . . . . . . . . 442--446
Matteo Martelli Hathor's Alchemy: The Ancient Roots of
the Hermetic Art . . . . . . . . . . . . 447--448
Rafa\l T. Prinke The Correspondence of Boldizsár Batthyány.
The Everyday Life of an Early Modern
Alchemist . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 448--450
Antonio Clericuzio The Chemical Philosophy of Robert Boyle:
Mechanicism, Chymical Atoms, and
Emergence . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 450--451
Cassandra Gorman Grounds of Natural Philosophy . . . . . 451--453
Hjalmar Fors Reconstruction, Replication and
Re-enactment in the Humanities and
Social Sciences . . . . . . . . . . . . 453--454
Hasok Chang Philosophical Chemistry: Genealogy of a
Scientific Field . . . . . . . . . . . . 455--456
Megan Piorko and
Marieke Hendriksen and
Simon Werrett Alchemical Practice: Looking Towards the
Chemical Humanities . . . . . . . . . . 1--18
Umberto Veronesi and
Marcos Martinón-Torres The Old Ashmolean Museum and Oxford's
Seventeenth-Century Chymical Community:
a Material Culture Approach To
Laboratory Experiments . . . . . . . . . 19--33
Lyke de Vries Protecting Academia and Religion:
Andreas Libavius's Criticism of a
General Reformation . . . . . . . . . . 34--48
Fabiana Lopes da Silveira In the Melting Pot: Cultural Mixture and
the Presentation of Alchemical Knowledge
in the \booktitleLetter from Isis to
Horus . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 49--64
Sarah Lang A Machine Reasoning Algorithm for the
Digital Analysis of Alchemical Language
and its \em Decknamen . . . . . . . . . 65--83
Barbara Di Gennaro Splendore Merchants of Medicines. The Commerce and
Coercion of Health in Britain's Long
Eighteenth Century . . . . . . . . . . . 84--85
Chiara Ambrosio Painting with Fire: Sir Joshua Reynolds,
Photography, and the Temporally Evolving
Chemical Object . . . . . . . . . . . . 85--87
Susanne Schmidt Chemically Imbalanced: Everyday
Suffering, Medication, and Our Troubled
Quest for Self-Mastery . . . . . . . . . 87--89
Justin Rivest A Singular Remedy: Cinchona Across the
Atlantic World, 1751--1820 . . . . . . . 89--91
George D. Elliott Chemistry in 17th-Century New England 91--92
Anonymous Society for the History of Alchemy and
Chemistry Award Scheme 2022 . . . . . . 93--94
Bruce T. Moran Medical Performance and the Alchemy of
Plants in the Ventures of Leonhard
Thurneisser zum Thurn . . . . . . . . . 95--117
Aurélien Ruellet The Pewterer and the Chymist: Major
Erasmus Purling and his Refined Tin . . 118--138
Letícia Dos Santos Pereira and
Olival Freire Júnior and
Gisela Boeck Wilhelm Ostwald's Pedagogy: an Analysis
of the Nobel Prize Nomination Letters 139--162
John Considine The Beginnings of English Paracelsian
Lexicography: Two Collections of Words
from Elizabethan Cambridge . . . . . . . 163--189
Evan Bourke Lady Ranelagh: The Incomparable Life of
Robert Boyle's Sister . . . . . . . . . 190--191
Hannah Murphy The Poison Trials: Wonder Drugs,
Experiment, and the Battle for Authority
in Renaissance Science . . . . . . . . . 191--193
Anna Simmons Drugs on the Page: Pharmacopoeias and
Healing Knowledge in the Early Modern
Atlantic World . . . . . . . . . . . . . 193--195
Alan J. Rocke Alexander Williamson: a Victorian
Chemist and the Making of Modern Japan 195--196
Frank A. J. L. James Carl Wilhelm Scheele and Torbern
Bergman: The Science, Lives and
Friendship of Two Pioneers in Chemistry 196--197
Ruben E. Verwaal White Blood: a History of Human Milk . . 197--198
Alexander Kraft The Reign of Saturn Transformed into an
Age of Gold . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 199--200
Anonymous The Partington Prize 2023 . . . . . . . 201--201
Elena Serrano and
Joris Mercelis and
Annette Lykknes ``I am not a Lady, I am a Scientist.''
Chemistry, Women, and Gender in the
Enlightenment and the Era of
Professional Science . . . . . . . . . . 203--220
Francesca Antonelli Becoming Visible. Marie-Anne
Paulze-Lavoisier and the Campaign for
the ``New Chemistry'' (1770s--1790s) . . 221--242
Elena Serrano Patriotic Women: Chemistry and Gender in
the Eighteenth-Century Spanish World . . 243--261
Annette Lykknes Enabling Circumstances: Women Chemical
Engineers at the Norwegian Institute of
Technology, 1910--1943 . . . . . . . . . 262--290
Joris Mercelis ``Men Don't Like to Work Under a
Woman'': Female Chemists in the
Photographic Manufacturing Industry, ca.
1918--1950 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 291--319
Bruce T. Moran Alchemy, Sources, and Digital Exploring
at the Herzog August Bibliothek
Wolfenbüttel . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 320--325
Georgiana Hedesan Book Review: \booktitleTurba
Philosophorum: Congr\`es pythagoricien
sur l'art d'Herm\`es. By Grégoire Lacaze.
Pp. 663, index. Brill: Leiden. 2018.
\pounds 243.00. ISBN: 978-90-04-36032-7 326--327
Helen Thompson Book Review: \booktitleThe Atom in
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Gorman. Pp. 251, index. D. S. Brewer:
Woodbridge, UK, and Rochester, NY. 2021.
\pounds 75.00. ISBN: 978-1-84-384593-5 327--329
Evan Ragland Book Review: \booktitleAesthetic
Science: Representing Nature in the
Royal Society of London, 1650--1720. By
Alexander Wragge-Morley. Pp. 272,
illus., index. University of Chicago
Press: Chicago. 2020. \pounds 30.00
(paperback). ISBN: 978-0-22-668086-6 . . 329--331
Rina Knoeff Book Review: \booktitleDe chemist. De
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Vermande. Pp. 662, illus., index.
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María José Correa-Gómez Book Review: \booktitleTóxicos
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Pp. 336, illus., index. Icaria:
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978-84-9888-976-5 . . . . . . . . . . . 332--334
Jonathan Rees Book Review: \booktitleA Rainbow Palate:
How Chemical Dyes Changed the West's
Relationship With Food. By Carolyn
Cobbold. Pp. 288, illus., index.
University of Chicago Press: Chicago.
2020. \pounds 30. ISBN:
978-0-22-672705-9 . . . . . . . . . . . 334--335
Brigitte Van Tiggelen Book Review: \booktitleA Nobel Affair:
The Correspondence Between Alfred Nobel
and Sofie Hess. Edited and translated by
Erika Rummel. Pp. 304, illus., index.
University of Toronto Press: Toronto.
2017. \pounds 62.00. ISBN:
978-1-48-750177-8 . . . . . . . . . . . 336--337
José Ramón Bertomeu-Sánchez Book Review: \booktitleEthics of
Chemistry. From Poison Gas to Climate
Engineering. Edited by Joachim Schummer
and Tom Bòrsen. Pp. vii + 559, index.
World Scientific Publishing: Toh Tuck
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ISBN: 978-9-81-123353-1 (hardcover);
978-9-81-123353-8 (ebook) . . . . . . . 337--338
Ute Frietsch Robert Fludd's Visual and Artisanal
Episteme: A Case Study of Fludd's
Interaction with His Engraver, His
Printer--Publisher, and His \em
Amanuenses . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 341--373
Anna Simmons and
William H. Brock Robert Warington and Heinrich Will:
Friendship and Co-operation in Chemistry
in Nineteenth Century Britain and
Germany . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 374--398
Sarah N. Hijmans The Tantalum Metals (1801--1866):
Nineteenth-Century Analytical Chemistry
and the Identification of Chemical
Elements . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 399--419
Helge Kragh Biographical Histories of Chemistry . . 420--425
María Belén Boned Fernández Book Review:
\booktitlePseudo-Paracelsus: Forgery and
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Natural Philosophy. Edited by Didier
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index. Brill: Leiden. 2021. \pounds
122.00. ISBN: 978-90-04-50337-3 . . . . 426--427
Eric R. Scerri The Elements: A Visual History of Their
Discovery . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 427--428
Carolyn Cobbold Book Review: \booktitleThe Chemistry of
Fear: Harvey Wiley's Fight for Pure
Food. By Jonathan Rees. Pp. 320, illus.,
index. Johns Hopkins University Press:
Baltimore, MA. 2021. \pounds 28.00
(hardcover). ISBN: 978-1-42-143995-2 . . 428--429
Susan Mossman Book Review: \booktitleBeyond Bakelite:
Leo Baekeland and the Business of
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Mercellis. Pp. 378, illus., index. The
MIT Press: Cambridge, Massachusetts.
2020. \pounds 45.00. ISBN:
978-0-26-253869-5 (paperback) . . . . . 429--431
Anisia Alis Iacob Book Review: \booktitleMaking
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by Evan R. Ragland, Brill: Leiden, 2022.
pp. 457+xii, \pounds 120.00, illus.,
index. ISBN: 978-90-04-46511-4 . . . . . 431--433
Anonymous SHAC Special ICHC13 Award Scheme ---
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in Vilnius, May 2023 . . . . . . . . . . 434--435
Donna Bilak Living Then and Now with Gold and
Mercury . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1--6
Vincenzo Carlotta and
Matteo Martelli Metals as Living Bodies. Founts of
Mercury, Amalgams, and Chrysocolla . . . 7--30
Donna Bilak and
George Vrtis Environmental Alchemy: Mercury--Gold
Amalgamation Mining and the
Transformation of the Earth . . . . . . 31--53
Sebastián Rubiano-Galvis and
Jimena Diaz Leiva and
Ruth Goldstein Amalgamated Histories: Tracing
Quicksilver's Legacy Through
Environmental and Political Bodies in
Andean and Amazonian Gold Mining . . . . 54--76
Peter Oakley Making Mercury's Histories: Mercury in
Gold Mining's Past and Present . . . . . 77--98
Wenrui Zhao Ingenuity in the Making: Matter and
Technique in Early Modern Europe . . . . 99--100
Judit Gil-Farrero Tóxicos: pasado y presente. Pensar
históricamente un mundo tóxico. (Spanish)
[Toxic: past and present. Thinking
historically about a toxic world] . . . 100--102
Guillermo Restrepo 150 Years of the Periodic Table: a
Commemorative Symposium . . . . . . . . 102--104
Pablo Corral-Broto The Contamination of the Earth. A
History of Pollutions in the Industrial
Age . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 104--105
Anonymous Society for the History of Alchemy and
Chemistry Award Scheme 2023 . . . . . . 106--107
Barry Sturman and
David Garrioch Amateur Science and Innovation in
Fireworks in Nineteenth-Century Europe 109--130
Peter Reed George E. Davis: Editing the
\booktitleChemical Trade Journal,
1887--1906 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 131--149
Megan Piorko and
Sarah Lang and
Richard Bean Deciphering the \em Hermeticae
Philosophiae Medulla: Textual Cultures
of Alchemical Secrecy . . . . . . . . . 150--183
Tillmann Taape A Cultural History of Chemistry . . . . 184--186
Olivier Dufault Book Review: \booktitleA Cultural
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1), Edited by Marco Beretta. Pp. 294,
illus., index. Bloomsbury: London. 2022.
\pounds 395.00 (6-volume set). ISBN:
978-1-4742-9453-9 . . . . . . . . . . . 186--188
William Royall Newman Book Review: \booktitleA Cultural
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index. Bloomsbury: London. 2022. \pounds
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Anna Marie Roos Book Review: \booktitleA Cultural
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265, illus., index. Bloomsbury: London
and New York. 2022. \pounds 395.00
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Georgette Taylor Book Review: \booktitleA Cultural
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illus. index. Bloomsbury: London, 2022.
\pounds 395.00 (6-volume set). ISBN:
978-1-4742-9465-2 . . . . . . . . . . . 192--194
Hasok Chang Book Review: \booktitleA Cultural
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Bloomsbury: London. 2022. \pounds 395.00
(6-volume set). ISBN: 978-1-4742-9480-5 194--196
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271 + xiv, illus., index. Bloomsbury:
London, 2022. \pounds 395.00 (6-volume
set). ISBN: 978-1-4742-9481-2 . . . . . 197--199
Silvia Pérez-Criado How to Sell a Poison . . . . . . . . . . 200--201
Sven Dupré From Lived Experience to the Written
Word: Reconstructing Practical Knowledge
in the Early Modern World . . . . . . . 201--202
Jo Kirby March of the Pigments: Color History,
Science and Impact . . . . . . . . . . . 202--204
Anonymous The Partington Prize 2023 . . . . . . . 205--205
Frank A. J. L. James When Ben met Mary: The Letters of
Benjamin Thompson, Reichsgraf von
Rumford, to Mary Temple, Viscountess
Palmerston, 1793--1804 . . . . . . . . . 207--328
Alisha Rankin Letters on Natural Philosophy . . . . . 329--330
Vaibhav Pathak Magic, Science, and Religion in Early
Modern Europe . . . . . . . . . . . . . 330--332
Ernst Homburg Ersatzstoffe im Zeitalter der
Weltkriege: Geschichte, Bedeutung,
Perspektiven. (German) [Substitutes in
the Age of World Wars: History, Meaning,
Perspectives] . . . . . . . . . . . . . 332--333
Marcin Krasnodebski Research between Science, Society and
Politics: The History and Scientific
Development of Green Chemistry . . . . . 333--335
Teresa Sabol Spezio Long Hard Road: The Lithium-Ion Battery
and the Electric Car . . . . . . . . . . 335--336
Umberto Veronesi The Archaeology of Alchemy and
Chemistry: Past, Present, and Ideas for
the Future . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 337--356
George D. Elliott Gershom Bulkeley, ``Saltbox Science,''
and the Colonial New England Laboratory 357--379
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