We are pleased to announce a double book launch event, to celebrate the
publication of two books by distinguished and long-serving historians of
science and chemistry.

Thomas Garnett: Science, Medicine, Mobility in Eighteenth-Century
Britain (Bloomsbury) by Robert Fox Emeritus Professor of History of
Science, Oxford, published in February 2024.

Carbon: A Biography (Polity), the English translation of Carbone. Ses vies,
ses oeuvres (2018, Ed. Seuil) by Bernadette Bensaude-Vincent Emeritus
Professor Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne and Sacha Loeve
(Université Jean Moulin Lyon 3), to be published in June 2024.

The launch will be held in the Salon at the Maison Française, Norham Rd.,
Oxford, 5-6pm, on Wednesday 22nd May, following the first meeting of the
Oxford Seminar in the History of Alchemy and Chemistry (3pm-5pm
Maison Française), where Bernadette will be delivering a paper entitled
‘Why a Biography of Carbon?’

Organizers: Jo Hedesan (georgiana.hedesan@history.ox.ac.uk)
John Christie (jrrc_@hotmail.com)