Ambix 61, no. 4, is a thematic special issue on the topic “Analysis and Synthesis in Medieval and Early Modern Europe.” For the full contents, click here.
[Archived] Call for Registrations: Making Chemistry. History, Materials, and Practices
Society for the History of Alchemy and Chemistry
Making Chemistry: History, Materials, and Practices
Monday 8 December 2014
Locations: Royal Institution and Institute of Making, UCL, London
The programme and registration form are available for download here.
HIST Award for Outstanding Achievement in the History of Chemistry: Call for Nominations
The Division of the History of Chemistry (HIST) of the American Chemical Society solicits nominations for the 2015 HIST Award for Outstanding Achievement in the History of Chemistry.
This award, formerly known as the Dexter Award and then the Edelstein Award, continues a tradition started in 1956.
The deadline for nominations is Dec. 31, 2014. For more information see: http://www.scs.illinois.edu/~mainzv/HIST/awards/nomination2015-hist_award.php
[Archived] Programme/Call for Registrations: Geographies of Alchemy and Chemistry (5th SHAC Postgraduate Workshop)
Programme | Geographies of Alchemy and Chemistry
5th SHAC Postgraduate Workshop (October 24, 2014)
Venue: University of Amsterdam, Bungehuis 1.01, Spuistraat 210,1012VT Amsterdam
[Archived] The Royal Typographer and the Alchemist: Willem Sylvius and John Dee (Antwerp, 26 October 2014)
Venue: Museum Plantin-Moretus, Vrijdagmarkt 22, Antwerp, Belgium
A meeting sponsored by the Society for the History of Alchemy and Chemistry, ‘The Royal Typographer and the Alchemist: Willem Sylvius and John Dee’, will take place on 26 October at the Plantin-Moretus Museum in Antwerp, Belgium. Coinciding with the 450th Anniversary of the publication of John Dee’s Monas Hieroglyphica, this colloquium will bring together specialists on John Dee and specialists on late sixteenth-century print culture and humanistic activities in Antwerp. The aim of the colloquium is to investigate the links between Antwerp’s vibrant print culture and its relationship to alchemy and the occult philosophy in the late sixteenth century.
[Archived] New Issue: Ambix 61, no. 3 (2014) Now Available Online!
Featuring contributions on topics ranging from the 16th to the 20th century, find the contents here.
[Archived] CESIMA XX: Crossing Oceans
The Society for the History of Alchemy and Chemistry’s first meeting in Latin America, “Crossing Oceans: Exchange of Products, Instruments, Procedures and Ideas in the History of Chemistry and Related Sciences”, will shortly take place in São Paulo, Brazil, from Sunday 24 until Thursday 28 August 2014. This international conference will be hosted and organised by CESIMA (Centre Simao Mathias of Studies in the History of Science) and co-sponsored by SHAC and the Centre of Logic, Epistemology and History of Science, Unicamp (CLE). The conference will mark the occasion of CESIMA’s 20th anniversary in 2014.
Full details of the conference’s programme are now available online.