SHAC Autumn Meeting – ‘Alchemy and Chemistry in the Long Eighteenth Century’

 One day in-person meeting to be held on Saturday 25 November 2023.  B.4.04, Cruciform Building, University College London, Gower Street, WC1E 6BT. 

Please register (fee £20) at https://www.ticketsource.co.uk/society-for-the-history-of-alchemy-and-chemistry/t-dvpgxjr 

10.00 Registration and coffee   
10.30 Malika Basu  Alchemy to Chemistry in the Long Eighteenth Century – Incredible changes within the Indian Historical Tradition   
11.00 Hjalmar Fors (remote)   The alchemists children: Managing an alchemical heritage in the 18th Century 
11.30 Coffee   
12.00 Presentation of SHAC’s Oxford Part II Prize to Eleanor Smith and the Partington Prize to Armel Cornu   
12.10 Armel Cornu  Reintroducing the Senses in Narratives of Eighteenth-century Chemistry   
12.40 Mieke Adriaens and Pieter Beck  Replicating the Fontana-Ingenhousz eudiometer   
1.10 Lunch – please make your own arrangements, but a group will be going to the Wellcome café    
2.30 Anna Simmons  Inside the shop: Women, Apothecaries and Pharmacy in the Long 18th Century   
3.00 Nicholas Zumbulyadis (remote)  The Beginnings of Cobalt Chemistry in the early 18th Century (1700-1730)   
3.30 Matthew Eddy  The Inquiring Diarist:  Jane Ewbank and the Cultural Context of Experimental Philosophy in Late Georgian Yorkshire   
4.00 Tea   
4.30 John Christie   Past and Presence: Alchemy and Chemists in the European Long 18th-Century   
5.00 Hasok Chang   The forgotten history of contact electrochemistry   
5.30 A glass of wine