Wednesdays from 3pm-5pm
Maison Francaise, 2-10 Norham Road, OX2 6SE.
7 May : ‘18th Century Scottish Chemistry’
Chair : John Perkins (Oxford Brookes).
Georgette Taylor (UCL)
Pedagogues and Pedagogue-ability: Cullen versus Plummer at Edinburgh University
John Christie (Oxford)
Professors and Students in the Age of the Chemical Revolution
14 May: 18th Century Russian Alchemy and Chemistry
Chair: John Christie (Oxford)
Alexander Iosad (Oxford)
The Usefulness of Chemistry, the Uses of Science: the Place of Chemistry in Russia after Peter I
Robert Collis (Helsinki)
Alchemy and Elite Culture in Russia in the Long Eighteenth-Century, 1697-1796
21 May: Distillation Alchemy in the Renaissance
Chair: Georgiana Hedesan (Oxford)
Fabrizio Bigotti (Warburg)
Georgette Taylor (UCL)
Pedagogues and Pedagogue-ability: Cullen versus Plummer at Edinburgh University
John Christie (Oxford)
Professors and Students in the Age of the Chemical Revolution
14 May: 18th Century Russian Alchemy and Chemistry
Chair: John Christie (Oxford)
Alexander Iosad (Oxford)
The Usefulness of Chemistry, the Uses of Science: the Place of Chemistry in Russia after Peter I
Robert Collis (Helsinki)
Alchemy and Elite Culture in Russia in the Long Eighteenth-Century, 1697-1796
21 May: Distillation Alchemy in the Renaissance
Chair: Georgiana Hedesan (Oxford)
Fabrizio Bigotti (Warburg)
‘Homo alembicus’ and the Idea of Alchemical Destillatio in Renaissance Medicine
Tillmann Taape (Cambridge)
Experience, Craftsmanship and Alchemical Medicine in Hieronymus Brunschwig's Distillation Manuals
28 May: Early Modern Alchemy
Chair: Howard Hotson (Oxford)
Anke Timmermann (Cambridge)
Alchemy, Images and Early Modern Cambridge
Georgiana Hedesan (Oxford)
Van Helmont on the Acquisition of the Medical Alchemical Arcana
The seminar is free of charge, and anyone with an interest in the history of alchemy, chemistry, medicine or the sciences is invited to attend. The format is two papers followed by a Questions & Answers session. There will be an opportunity to socialise at a nearby pub afterwards. In addition, everyone is welcome to join us for dinner with the speaker and chair.
Chair: Howard Hotson (Oxford)
Anke Timmermann (Cambridge)
Alchemy, Images and Early Modern Cambridge
Georgiana Hedesan (Oxford)
Van Helmont on the Acquisition of the Medical Alchemical Arcana
The seminar is free of charge, and anyone with an interest in the history of alchemy, chemistry, medicine or the sciences is invited to attend. The format is two papers followed by a Questions & Answers session. There will be an opportunity to socialise at a nearby pub afterwards. In addition, everyone is welcome to join us for dinner with the speaker and chair.
For more information, questions or directions to the venue, please feel free to contact the Lead Organiser, Georgiana Hedesan, atgeorgiana.hedesan@history.ox.ac.uk.
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