AMBIX 是一份国际公认的同行评审季刊，致力于发表关于炼金术和化学的知识、社会和文化史的高质量原创研究和书评。它出版了与所有时期（古代到现代）和地理区域的炼金术和化学相关的所有领域的历史经验相关的研究、讨论和主要资料。 AMBIX 出版单篇论文、重点专题部分和较大的特刊（单期或双期，通常由客座编辑）。 AMBIX 涵盖的主题包括但不限于炼金术与化学和其他学科之间的相互作用；化学医药学；分子科学；与物质、工具、制度和视觉文化相关的实践；环境化学；化学工业；炼金术和化学在流行文化中的出现；传记和史学研究；以及在化学背景下研究与性别、种族和殖民经验有关的问题。

AMBIX is an internationally recognized peer-reviewed quarterly journal dedicated to publishing high-quality original research and book reviews on the knowledge, social, and cultural history of alchemy and chemistry. It covers research, discussions, and primary materials related to the history of alchemy and chemistry across all historical periods (from ancient to modern) and geographical regions. AMBIX publishes individual articles, themed sections, and larger special issues (single or double issues, typically guest-edited). The topics covered by the journal include, but are not limited to, the interactions between alchemy and chemistry and other disciplines; chemical pharmacology; molecular science; practices related to materials, tools, institutions, and visual culture; environmental chemistry; the chemical industry; the representation of alchemy and chemistry in popular culture; biographical and historiographical studies; and the examination of issues related to gender, race, and colonial experiences within a chemical context.

AMBIX 是一本国际公认的同行评审季刊，专注于发表关于炼金术和化学的知识、社会和文化史的高质量原创研究和书评。期刊涵盖了与所有历史时期（从古代到现代）和地理区域相关的炼金术和化学的研究、讨论及主要资料。AMBIX 出版单篇论文、专题部分以及较大的特刊（单期或双期，通常由客座编辑负责）。期刊涉及的主题包括但不限于炼金术与化学及其他学科之间的相互作用；化学医药学；分子科学；与物质、工具、制度和视觉文化相关的实践；环境化学；化学工业；炼金术和化学在流行文化中的表现；传记和史学研究；以及在化学背景下研究与性别、种族和殖民经验相关的问题。

Ambix

The development of defect-free flint glass for use in telescopes and navigational instruments was a key technological challenge facing European chemists, natural philosophers, and artisans that emerged in the 1750s. In 1805, Pierre-Louis Guinand, a Swiss artisan, invented a fireclay stirrer used to stir molten flint glass to create a homogenous mixture relatively free of defects. In this paper, I show it was not Guinand, but French chemist Antoine Baumé, who first came up with the idea of using a fireclay stirrer. More important, both Guinand and another early optical glass researcher, Josiah Wedgwood, knew of and were influenced by Baumé's work. Baumé's optical glass contributions have been forgotten over the years for several reasons. First, he never promoted his idea of a fireclay stirrer due to the limited support and likelihood of failure for such an artisanal-focused project within the Académie, which stressed theory over practice with regards to glassmaking. Second, glassmakers were hesitant to reveal their trade secrets and sources. And third, until fairly recently, Baumé's unrelenting support of the phlogiston theory led to his relegation as a minor figure in the history of chemistry, and his optical glass ideas fell off the radar of subsequent historians.

Mark I. Grossman

Stirring the Pot: Antoine Baumé, Josiah Wedgwood, Pierre-Louis Guinand, and the Development of Optical Glass

搅动风云：安托万·博梅、约西亚·韦奇伍德、皮埃尔-路易·吉南与光学玻璃的发展

Karoliina Pulkkinen

A Hundred and Fifty Years of Periodicity

一百五十年的周期性

Motivated by her interest in fabric arts, late-eighteenth-century British chemist Elizabeth Fulhame experimentally investigated whether cloths of gold, silver, and other metals could be made by chemical rather than mechanical processes. In contrast to other women studying science at this time, she not only published an original monograph under her own name that challenged both the phlogistic and antiphlogistic views of combustion but also proposed an alternative explanation for oxidation and reduction. Although her contemporaries widely cited her innovative research, her history is not well known, yet a careful analysis of her work provides further insights into the reception of the antiphlogistic theory and the challenges and limitations experienced by women in chemistry during this period.

Amy Fisher

Why Do Things Burn? Elizabeth Fulhame’s Challenge to the Antiphlogistic Theory of Combustion

为什么东西会燃烧？伊丽莎白·富尔哈姆对燃素理论的挑战

The composition and way of production of Michael Maier's medicament Coelidonia, mentioned in his book De Medicina Regia et verè Heroica, Coelidonia, were inferred from indications in Maier's book Viatorium, hoc est, de montibus planetarum septem eu Metallorum. The substance was synthesized by the author in a modern laboratory. It is a lead oxychloride of brilliant yellow colour with a composition of approximately Pb7O6Cl2. The same substance was produced from the 1780s to at least 1825 as a pigment under the names of Patent Yellow, Turner's Yellow and Casseler Mineral-Gelb (Cassel Mineral Yellow).

Rainer Werthmann

Michael Maier’s Medicament Coelidonia – A Possible Explanation of its Composition and Production

迈克尔·迈尔的《药物秘方》——对其成分和制作方法的可能解释

Anna Simmons

SHAC Special ICHC14 Award Scheme – grants to support attendance at ICHC14 in Valencia, Spain, 11–14 June 2025

SHAC 特别 ICHC14 奖励计划 – 资助参加2025年6月11日至14日在西班牙瓦伦西亚举行的ICHC14会议

This essay brings together research in the history of science and soft matter physics to consider how early modern Italian apothecaries organised and communicated their knowledge from the fourteenth to the seventeenth century through an "apothecary taxonomy." This was based on a what we call a "hylocentric" classification scheme (from the Greek hyle = matter, material, stuff) founded on a tactile understanding of materials. We will investigate how the behaviour of medicines under deformation and flow – their "rheology" – is a previously underestimated organisational principle, and consider the specialist vocabulary these author-practitioners used to describe different liquid and liquid-like formulations. We will also suggest that the rheology of these formulations – which today falls under the domain of "soft matter science" – affected the material culture of apothecary shops, in the arrangement and selection of drug bottles and jars, which presented this knowledge visually to visitors and clients. That soft matter scientists organise the substances they study in similar ways to early modern apothecaries suggests the agency of materials in affecting human categorisations.

Abbreviation	Ambix
Journal Impact	0.36
Quartiles(Global)	HISTORY & PHILOSOPHY OF SCIENCE(Q3)

ISSN	0002-6980, 1745-8234
h-index	14

Publication Information	Publisher: Maney Publishing，Publishing cycle: Tri-annual，Journal Type: journal，Open Access Journals: No
Basic data	Year of publication: 2000，Proportion of original research papers: 93.75%，Self Citation Rate:0.00%， Gold OA Rate: 21.74%
Average review cycle	网友分享经验：>12周，或约稿
Average recruitment ratio	网友分享经验：容易

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Stirring the Pot: Antoine Baumé, Josiah Wedgwood, Pierre-Louis Guinand, and the Development of Optical Glass

A Hundred and Fifty Years of Periodicity

Why Do Things Burn? Elizabeth Fulhame’s Challenge to the Antiphlogistic Theory of Combustion

Michael Maier’s Medicament Coelidonia – A Possible Explanation of its Composition and Production

SHAC Special ICHC14 Award Scheme – grants to support attendance at ICHC14 in Valencia, Spain, 11–14 June 2025

Stirring the Pot: Antoine Baumé, Josiah Wedgwood, Pierre-Louis Guinand, and the Development of Optical Glass

A Hundred and Fifty Years of Periodicity

Renaissance Goo: Senses and Materials in Early Modern Apothecary Taxonomies and Soft Matter Science

Michael Maier’s Medicament Coelidonia – A Possible Explanation of its Composition and Production

SHAC Special ICHC14 Award Scheme – grants to support attendance at ICHC14 in Valencia, Spain, 11–14 June 2025