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ALCHEMICAL PRACTICE AND THE CHEMICAL HUMANITIES

Introduction

Introduction
Alchemical Practice: Looking Towards the Chemical Humanities
Megan Piorko, Marieke Hendriksen & Simon Werrett
Pages: 1-18
Published online: 11 Mar 2022
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The Old Ashmolean Museum and Oxford’s Seventeenth-Century Chymical Community: A Material Culture Approach To Laboratory Experiments
Umberto Veronesi & Marcos Martinón-Torres
Pages: 19-33
Published online: 24 Jan 2022
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Protecting Academia and Religion: Andreas Libavius’s Criticism of a General Reformation
Lyke de Vries
Pages: 34-48
Published online: 11 Feb 2022
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In the Melting Pot: Cultural Mixture and the Presentation of Alchemical Knowledge in the Letter from Isis to Horus
Fabiana Lopes da Silveira
Pages: 49-64
Published online: 07 Feb 2022
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A Machine Reasoning Algorithm for the Digital Analysis of Alchemical Language and its Decknamen
Sarah Lang
Pages: 65-83
Published online: 11 Mar 2022
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Book Reviews

Book Review
Merchants of Medicines. The Commerce and Coercion of Health in Britain’s Long Eighteenth Century
By Zachary Dorner. Pp. 280, illus., index. University of Chicago Press: Chicago. 2020. £35. ISBN: 978-0-22-670680-1.
Barbara Di Gennaro Splendore
Pages: 84-85
Published online: 09 Jul 2021
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Painting with Fire: Sir Joshua Reynolds, Photography, and the Temporally Evolving Chemical Object
By Matthew C. Hunter. Pp. 304, illus., index. University of Chicago Press: Chicago. 2019. £37 (cloth). ISBN: 978-0-22-639025-3.
Chiara Ambrosio
Pages: 85-87
Published online: 10 Aug 2021
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Chemically Imbalanced: Everyday Suffering, Medication, and Our Troubled Quest for Self-Mastery
By Joseph E. Davis. Pp. 256, index. University of Chicago Press: Chicago. 2020. £24.00. ISBN: 978-0-22-668668-4.
Susanne Schmidt
Pages: 87-89
Published online: 04 Aug 2021
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A Singular Remedy: Cinchona Across the Atlantic World, 1751–1820
By Stefanie Gänger. Pp. 300, illus., index. Cambridge University Press: Cambridge. 2021. £53. ISBN: 978-1-10-8842167.
Justin Rivest
Pages: 89-91
Published online: 17 Aug 2021
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Chemistry in 17th-Century New England
By Gary Patterson. Pp. 94, illus. Springer: Cham, Switzerland. 2020. £37. ISBN: 978-3-030-43260-7.
George D. Elliott
Pages: 91-92
Published online: 06 Sep 2021
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Announcement

Announcement
Society for the History of Alchemy and Chemistry Award Scheme 2022
Pages: 93-94
Published online: 18 Feb 2022
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