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The Varnish and the Glaze: Painting Splendor with Oil, 1100–1500 Ambix (IF 0.5) Pub Date : 2024-03-15 Cleo Nisse
Published in Ambix (Ahead of Print, 2024)
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The Three Deaths of Cerro de San Pedro: Four Centuries of Extractivism in a Small Mexican Mining Town Ambix (IF 0.5) Pub Date : 2024-03-15 Andrés Vélez-Posada
Published in Ambix (Ahead of Print, 2024)
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The Historical Chemist Ambix (IF 0.5) Pub Date : 2024-03-14 Giacomo Montanari, Marianna Marchini, Lucia Maini
Published in Ambix (Ahead of Print, 2024)
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Molecular World: Making Modern Chemistry Ambix (IF 0.5) Pub Date : 2024-03-13 David E. Lewis
Published in Ambix (Ahead of Print, 2024)
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Is Gold Yellow? Plant Dyes and Gold-Making in the Ancient Chemical Arts Ambix (IF 0.5) Pub Date : 2024-03-07 Caterina Manco, Matteo Martelli
Ancient Greek colour terminology captures brightness, light, and brilliance rather than clear-cut portions of the chromatic spectrum, as scholars agree today. This also applies to the rich semantic...
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Making Yellows Last with Nitric Acid: Exploring Colour Permanence in Art and Knowledge, 1600–1850 Ambix (IF 0.5) Pub Date : 2024-03-06 Marjolijn Bol, Giacomo Montanari
Nitric acid became commonly available in the seventeenth century. Since then, it held the interest of chemists, especially those interested in the art of dyeing. Due to what is now called the xanth...
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Stolen Horses and Scented Garments: Vegetal and Mineral Yellow in Arabic Technical Literature Ambix (IF 0.5) Pub Date : 2024-03-01 Lucia Raggetti
Mediaeval Arabic technical literature shows a keen interest in yellow dyes, paints, varnishes, inks, and even perfumes. Recipes reveal that yellow was viewed as just one step away from gold, with p...
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Citrination and its Discontents: Yellow as a Sign of Alchemical Change Ambix (IF 0.5) Pub Date : 2024-02-29 Jennifer M. Rampling
Many of the “signs and tokens” described in alchemical texts relate to colour, from the Crow’s Bill signifying putrefaction to the philosophical solvents disguised as Green Lions, Red Dragons, and ...
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The Book on Alums and Salts of Pseudo-Rāzī Ambix (IF 0.5) Pub Date : 2024-02-22 Gabriele Ferrario
Published in Ambix (Vol. 70, No. sup1, 2023)
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Alchemy and Exemplary Poetry in Middle English Literature Ambix (IF 0.5) Pub Date : 2024-01-30 Joe Stadolnik
Published in Ambix (Ahead of Print, 2024)
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Society for the History of Alchemy and Chemistry Award Scheme 2024 Ambix (IF 0.5) Pub Date : 2024-01-26
Published in Ambix (Ahead of Print, 2024)
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Atmospheric Chemistry: A Critical Voyage Through the History Ambix (IF 0.5) Pub Date : 2024-01-16 Régis Briday
Published in Ambix (Ahead of Print, 2024)
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Atoms, Corpuscles and Minima in the Renaissance Ambix (IF 0.5) Pub Date : 2023-12-21 Antonio Clericuzio
Published in Ambix (Ahead of Print, 2023)
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The Alchemy of Conquest: Science, Religion, and the Secrets of the New World Ambix (IF 0.5) Pub Date : 2023-11-21 Jennifer M. Rampling
Published in Ambix (Ahead of Print, 2023)
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The Gas Mask in Interwar Germany: Visions of Chemical Modernity Ambix (IF 0.5) Pub Date : 2023-11-07 Alison McManus
Published in Ambix (Ahead of Print, 2023)
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Senses and Utility in the New Chemistry Ambix (IF 0.5) Pub Date : 2023-10-30 Armel Cornu
The New Chemistry, as practised by its early proponents in late eighteenth-century France, is often associated with quantification and a move away from sensorial perceptions. In this paper, I argue...
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Economic Poisoning: Industrial Waste and the Chemicalization of American Agriculture Ambix (IF 0.5) Pub Date : 2023-10-30 Niccolò Mignemi
Published in Ambix (Vol. 70, No. 4, 2023)
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Wegbereiter der Globalisierung. Multinationale Unternehmen der westeuropäischen Chemieindustrie (1960er-2000er Jahre) Ambix (IF 0.5) Pub Date : 2023-10-30 Carsten Reinhardt
Published in Ambix (Vol. 70, No. 4, 2023)
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John Brian Perkins (12 October 1943 to 20 May 2023) Ambix (IF 0.5) Pub Date : 2023-10-30 Frank James
Published in Ambix (Vol. 70, No. 4, 2023)
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2024 Morris Award: Call for Nominations Ambix (IF 0.5) Pub Date : 2023-10-30
Published in Ambix (Vol. 70, No. 4, 2023)
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The Archaeology of Alchemy and Chemistry: Past, Present, and Ideas for the Future Ambix (IF 0.5) Pub Date : 2023-09-12 Umberto Veronesi
The materials and practices of chymical procedures have become key sources of information among science historians, opening up channels for cross-disciplinary dialogue. This is especially true with...
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Gershom Bulkeley, “Saltbox Science,” and the Colonial New England Laboratory Ambix (IF 0.5) Pub Date : 2023-09-12 George D. Elliott
This article investigates the prolific colonial New England alchemist and physician Gershom Bulkeley (1635/36–1713) and his late seventeenth-century household laboratory. First, I provide an update...
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From Crust to Core: A Chronicle of Deep Carbon Science Ambix (IF 0.5) Pub Date : 2023-08-25 Anne-Sophie Milon
Published in Ambix (Vol. 70, No. 4, 2023)
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When Ben met Mary: The Letters of Benjamin Thompson, Reichsgraf von Rumford, to Mary Temple, Viscountess Palmerston, 1793–1804 Ambix (IF 0.5) Pub Date : 2023-08-24 Frank A. J. L. James
This paper publishes the sixty-nine surviving very personal letters that Reichsgraf von Rumford wrote to Viscountess Palmerston after they met in Milan in 1793. The letters draw attention to the private domestic spaces of science and the critical importance of the aristocracy in scientific developments, topics that have both received some discussion recently. They were, however, not written with the
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Bodily Fluids, Chemistry and Medicine in the Eighteenth-Century Boerhaave School Ambix (IF 0.5) Pub Date : 2023-08-22 John Powers
Published in Ambix (Vol. 70, No. 4, 2023)
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Poison Powder: The Kepone Disaster in Virginia and its Legacy Ambix (IF 0.5) Pub Date : 2023-07-10 Sofiya Kamalova
Published in Ambix (Vol. 70, No. 4, 2023)
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Making Ammonia: Fritz Haber, Walther Nernst, and the Nature of Scientific Discovery Ambix (IF 0.5) Pub Date : 2023-06-15 Payal B. Joshi
Published in Ambix (Vol. 70, No. 4, 2023)
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Research between Science, Society and Politics: The History and Scientific Development of Green Chemistry Ambix (IF 0.5) Pub Date : 2023-06-12 Marcin Krasnodębski
Published in Ambix (Vol. 70, No. 3, 2023)
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Ersatzstoffe im Zeitalter der Weltkriege: Geschichte, Bedeutung, Perspektiven Ambix (IF 0.5) Pub Date : 2023-06-07 Ernst Homburg
Published in Ambix (Vol. 70, No. 3, 2023)
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Deciphering the Hermeticae Philosophiae Medulla: Textual Cultures of Alchemical Secrecy Ambix (IF 0.5) Pub Date : 2023-05-10 Megan Piorko, Sarah Lang, Richard Bean
This article presents the decryption, historical analysis, and alchemical interpretation of an alchemical cipher found in a shared notebook of John and Arthur Dee (British Library MS Sloane 1902). The cipher is an early example of a Bellaso/Della Porta/Vigenère type, a strong encryption method which was historically deemed indecipherable. The essay explores the medical and alchemical context for the
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George E. Davis: Editing the Chemical Trade Journal, 1887–1906 Ambix (IF 0.5) Pub Date : 2023-05-09 Peter Reed
This article explores George Davis’s editing of the Chemical Trades Journal (CTJ) between 1887 and 1906, a period during which he was also working as a consultant chemist and consultant chemical engineer. Davis had worked from 1870 in various sectors of the chemical industry before becoming a sub-inspector in the Alkali Inspectorate between 1878 and 1884. It was during this period that the British
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Amateur Science and Innovation in Fireworks in Nineteenth-Century Europe Ambix (IF 0.5) Pub Date : 2023-05-09 Barry Sturman, David Garrioch
The categories of “amateur” and “professional” remain central in studies on the sociology of nineteenth-century science. This article joins a growing body of literature that points out the complicated and intersecting connections between these two groups and how blurred the boundaries could be. This study focuses on pyrotechny, the art of fireworks, a field of far more obvious importance in the nineteenth
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Long Hard Road: The Lithium-Ion Battery and the Electric Car Ambix (IF 0.5) Pub Date : 2023-05-09 Teresa Sabol Spezio
Published in Ambix (Vol. 70, No. 3, 2023)
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Letters on Natural Philosophy Ambix (IF 0.5) Pub Date : 2023-05-09 Alisha Rankin
Published in Ambix (Vol. 70, No. 3, 2023)
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Magic, Science, and Religion in Early Modern Europe Ambix (IF 0.5) Pub Date : 2023-04-24 Vaibhav Pathak
Published in Ambix (Vol. 70, No. 3, 2023)
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The Partington Prize 2023 Ambix (IF 0.5) Pub Date : 2023-04-05
Published in Ambix (Vol. 70, No. 2, 2023)
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Living Then and Now with Gold and Mercury Ambix (IF 0.5) Pub Date : 2023-03-31 Donna Bilak
Published in Ambix (Vol. 70, No. 1, 2023)
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Environmental Alchemy: Mercury-Gold Amalgamation Mining and the Transformation of the Earth Ambix (IF 0.5) Pub Date : 2023-03-29 Donna Bilak, George Vrtis
Wherever mercury-gold amalgamation mining unfolds, alchemical processes abound. They are there as catalytic agents forming amalgams at atomic levels. They are there as cultural agents transforming rocks into cell phones and all kinds of consumer goods. And they are there as ideological agents mutually translating human understandings across whole worlds we describe as the sciences, humanities, and
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Making Mercury’s Histories: Mercury in Gold Mining’s Past and Present Ambix (IF 0.5) Pub Date : 2023-03-29 Peter Oakley
This article considers the presence and absence of mercury, and why in different social arenas where gold features, mercury can become either pervasive or elusive. To substantiate this argument, the article offers two contrasting examples: (1) presentation strategies at Pacific Seaboard gold rush heritage sites, and (2) the background to the Minamata Bay tragedy and the Minamata Convention’s subsequent
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Amalgamated Histories: Tracing Quicksilver's Legacy Through Environmental and Political Bodies in Andean and Amazonian Gold Mining Ambix (IF 0.5) Pub Date : 2023-03-16 Sebastián Rubiano-Galvis, Jimena Diaz Leiva, Ruth Goldstein
This article argues that the centuries-long history of mercury-gold amalgamation is crucial to contemporary debates surrounding global mercury pollution from artisanal and small-scale gold mining. Drawing on historical findings that examine Spanish colonial and Indigenous metallurgical knowledge as well as ethnographic and scientific research, we resituate the history of mercury amalgamation in Latin
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A Cultural History of Chemistry in the Modern Age (vol. 6) Ambix (IF 0.5) Pub Date : 2023-03-16 Evan Hepler-Smith
Published in Ambix (Vol. 70, No. 2, 2023)
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A Cultural History of Chemistry in the Nineteenth Century (vol. 5) Ambix (IF 0.5) Pub Date : 2023-03-16 Hasok Chang
Published in Ambix (Vol. 70, No. 2, 2023)
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A Cultural History of Chemistry in Antiquity (vol. 1) Ambix (IF 0.5) Pub Date : 2023-03-16 Olivier Dufault
Published in Ambix (Vol. 70, No. 2, 2023)
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A Cultural History of Chemistry in the Early Modern Age (vol. 3) Ambix (IF 0.5) Pub Date : 2023-03-14 Anna Marie Roos
Published in Ambix (Vol. 70, No. 2, 2023)
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A Cultural History of Chemistry in the Middle Ages (vol. 2) Ambix (IF 0.5) Pub Date : 2023-03-13 William Royall Newman
Published in Ambix (Vol. 70, No. 2, 2023)
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A Cultural History of Chemistry in the Eighteenth Century (vol. 4) Ambix (IF 0.5) Pub Date : 2023-03-10 Georgette Taylor
Published in Ambix (Vol. 70, No. 2, 2023)
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A Cultural History of Chemistry Ambix (IF 0.5) Pub Date : 2023-03-10 Tillmann Taape
Published in Ambix (Vol. 70, No. 2, 2023)
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March of the Pigments: Color History, Science and Impact Ambix (IF 0.5) Pub Date : 2023-03-03 Jo Kirby
Published in Ambix (Vol. 70, No. 2, 2023)
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Society for the History of Alchemy and Chemistry Award Scheme 2023 Ambix (IF 0.5) Pub Date : 2023-02-27
Published in Ambix (Vol. 70, No. 1, 2023)
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Metals as Living Bodies. Founts of Mercury, Amalgams, and Chrysocolla Ambix (IF 0.5) Pub Date : 2023-02-27 Vincenzo Carlotta, Matteo Martelli
Ancient and medieval alchemical works include several comparisons between the generation and development of metals and those of plants, animals, and living beings. These comparisons could refer to adopt physiological models in the explanation of the natural formation of metals and their artificial transformation, to justify the place occupied by alchemy within the broader study of the natural world
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From Lived Experience to the Written Word: Reconstructing Practical Knowledge in the Early Modern World Ambix (IF 0.5) Pub Date : 2023-01-27 Sven Dupré
Published in Ambix (Vol. 70, No. 2, 2023)
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How to Sell a Poison Ambix (IF 0.5) Pub Date : 2023-01-13 Silvia Pérez-Criado
Published in Ambix (Vol. 70, No. 2, 2023)
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The Contamination of the Earth. A History of Pollutions in the Industrial Age Ambix (IF 0.5) Pub Date : 2022-12-16 Pablo Corral-Broto
Published in Ambix (Vol. 70, No. 1, 2023)
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Tóxicos: pasado y presente. Pensar históricamente un mundo tóxico Ambix (IF 0.5) Pub Date : 2022-11-16 Judit Gil-Farrero
Published in Ambix (Vol. 70, No. 1, 2023)
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Ingenuity in the Making: Matter and Technique in Early Modern Europe Ambix (IF 0.5) Pub Date : 2022-11-16 Wenrui Zhao
Published in Ambix (Vol. 70, No. 1, 2023)
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Robert Fludd’s Visual and Artisanal Episteme: A Case Study of Fludd’s Interaction with His Engraver, His Printer-Publisher, and His Amanuenses Ambix (IF 0.5) Pub Date : 2022-11-01 Ute Frietsch
Robert Fludd was a thinker full of contradictions. He is famous for his theosophical system and for his experimental chymical constructions as well as for his Galenic medical practices. Furthermore, Fludd had his works published in luxurious folio formats by the publisher Johann Theodor de Bry, and the spectacular etchings and many of the engravings in his books were executed by Matthäus Merian the
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150 Years of the Periodic Table: A Commemorative Symposium Ambix (IF 0.5) Pub Date : 2022-10-31 Guillermo Restrepo
Published in Ambix (Vol. 70, No. 1, 2023)
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SHAC Special ICHC13 Award Scheme – Grants to Support Attendance at ICHC13 in Vilnius, May 2023 Ambix (IF 0.5) Pub Date : 2022-10-28
Published in Ambix (Vol. 69, No. 4, 2022)
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Robert Warington and Heinrich Will: Friendship and Co-operation in Chemistry in Nineteenth Century Britain and Germany Ambix (IF 0.5) Pub Date : 2022-10-24 Anna Simmons, William H. Brock
This paper discusses fourteen letters that Heinrich Will (1812–1890), Justus Liebig’s (1803–1873) successor at the University of Giessen, sent to Robert Warington (1807–1867), the chemical operator at Apothecaries’ Hall in London, between 1842 and 1854. The correspondence illuminates a range of topics related to the development of the British chemical community in mid-Victorian Britain – its organisations
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The Tantalum Metals (1801–1866): Nineteenth-Century Analytical Chemistry and the Identification of Chemical Elements Ambix (IF 0.5) Pub Date : 2022-10-17 Sarah N. Hijmans
This paper examines the identification of chemical elements using mineral analysis, focusing on the controversy surrounding the “tantalum metals” between 1801 and 1866. Of these metals, only tantalum and niobium are still recognised as elements today; the discovery claims of columbium, pelopium, ilmenium and dianium were all retracted or refuted. Despite the theoretical and institutional changes that