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Day 1 - SHAC Spring Meeting 2024: 'From Antique to Early Modern Alchemy: New Approaches, New Horizons'
Programme: DAY 1 (09:30-18:45)
Panel 1: Fire and Heat in an Alchemical Context (Chair: Rob Iliffe)
Thijs Hagendijk & Hannah Elmer: Spaces for Fire. Early Modern European Furnaces and the Regimen Ignis
Peter Oakley: ‘How to Regulate the Fire’: Early Modern Cupellation and Furnace Management
Gary Patterson: Boerhaave and Ponderous Heat
Panel 2: The Evolution of Early Modern Metaphors of Alchemical and Encyclopaedic Knowledge (Chair: TBA)
Petr Pavlas: From Metaphors of Theosophical Alchemy to the New Book of Books. The Framework and an Illustration of Evolutionary Metaphorology
Vojtěch Kaše: Computational Explorations of Early Modern Metaphors of Knowledge: Diachronic Word Embeddings and Cultural Evolution in Scientific Texts
Jo Hedesan: Metaphors of Knowledge in the Printed Corpus of Latin Alchemy
Panel 3: Ancient Alchemy (Chair: Mark Edwards)
Sean Coughlin & Victor Golubev: Perfumery and Alchemy in Greco-Roman Egypt
Eduardo Escobar & Giacomo Montanari: Contemporary Tools for Bronze Age Perfumery: Reconstructing the Role of Water in Ancient Assyrian Perfume Recipes
Joshua Werrett: ‘An Investigation Governed by the Moon’: Astrology and Alchemy in Late Antique Egypt
Panel 4: Medieval Alchemy (Chair: TBA)
Athanasios Rinotas: Aristotelianism and Medieval Alchemy in the 13th Century: A Janus-faced Relationship
Carmen Schmechel: On Ferment in Hortulanus’ Commentary on the Emerald Tablet
Stefania Buosi Moncunill: The Infiltration of the Catalan Carmelite Guillem Sedasser’s Alchemy in Italian Glass Making
Keynote lecture: Jennifer M Rampling (Princeton)
Refreshments will be provided at various points on both days, lunch will be provided on day 1.
Date:
28 May 2024, 9:30
Venue:
2-10 Norham Road, 2-10 Norham Road OX2 6SE
Venue Details:
Maison Française d'Oxford, Oxford, OX2 6SE
Speaker: Various Speakers
Organiser contact email address:
georgiana.hedesan@history.ox.ac.uk
Part of:
Society for the History of Alchemy and Chemistry Events (SHAC)
Booking required?:
Required
Booking url:
https://www.ticketsource.co.uk/booking/select/RdiEJKhzXNnT
Cost:
Free
Audience:
Public
Editor:
Belinda Clark
