Introduction: Medicine, Life, and Transformations of Matter

2024-9-12

Leaven of Dough, Ferment of Gold: The Breadmaking Analogy in Medieval Metallic Transmutation

2024-9-12

Scientific Advice to the Nineteenth-Century British State

2024-9-11

Emil Fischer’s “From My Life”: English Translation of “Aus meinem Leben.” <b>Emil Fischer’s “From My Life”: English Translation of “Aus meinem Leben.”</b> By D <scp>avid</scp> M. B <scp>ehrman</scp> and E <scp>dward</scp> J. B <scp>ehrman</scp> . Pp. 162, illus., index. Springer: Cham, Switzerland. 2022. £68.80. ISBN: 978-3-031-05155-4.

2024-8-12

Fire, <i>Vulcanus</i> , <i>Archeus</i> , and Alchemy: A Hybrid Close-Distant Reading of Paracelsus’s Thought on Active Agents

2024-7-26

Diderot’s Vital Materialism

2024-7-26

Distilling the Art of Distillation in an Unstudied Manuscript of “Chymicall Notions”

2024-7-25

The Emergence of Chemical Medicine in Early Modern Naples (1600–1660)

2024-7-18

Ketens van Fossiele Grondstoffen: Procestechnologie en de transitie naar duurzaamheid <b>Ketens van Fossiele Grondstoffen: Procestechnologie en de transitie naar duurzaamheid</b> . By T <scp>on van</scp> H <scp>elvoort</scp> . Pp. 357. Amsterdam University Press: Amsterdam. 2024. £29.60. ISBN: 978-94-6372-478-4.

2024-7-10

Morris Award 2024

2024-7-10

Fragments of Alchemy from a Cairene Synagogue: Context, Codicology, and Contents of the Alchemical Corpus of the Cairo Genizah

2024-4-25

Translating Forbidden Authors: New Evidence on the Alchemical Library of Don Antonio de’ Medici

2024-4-2

A Very “Distilled” Emblem in Baroque Rome: Natural Philosophy, Alchemy, and Atomism in the Academy of the Umoristi

2024-4-2

Lavoisier and the History of Chemistry

2024-4-2

The Three Deaths of Cerro de San Pedro: Four Centuries of Extractivism in a Small Mexican Mining Town <b>The Three Deaths of Cerro de San Pedro: Four Centuries of Extractivism in a Small Mexican Mining Town</b> . By D <scp>aviken</scp> S <scp>tudnicki-</scp> G <scp>izbert</scp> . Pp. 324, illus., index. The University of North Carolina Press: Chapell Hill. 2022. £27.50. ISBN: 978-1-4696-7110-9.

2024-3-15

The Varnish and the Glaze: Painting Splendor with Oil, 1100–1500 <b>The Varnish and the Glaze: Painting Splendor with Oil, 1100–1500</b> . By Marjolijn Bol. Pp. 336, illus., index. The University of Chicago Press: Chicago. 2023. £43.50. ISBN: 978-0-226-82036-1.

2024-3-15

Molecular World: Making Modern Chemistry <b>Molecular World: Making Modern Chemistry</b> . By Catherine M. Jackson. Pp. xii+444, illus., index. MIT Press: Cambridge, MA. 2023. £60.00(paperback). ISBN: 978-0-262-54554-9.

2024-3-13

Stolen Horses and Scented Garments: Vegetal and Mineral Yellow in Arabic Technical Literature

2024-3-1

Citrination and its Discontents: Yellow as a Sign of Alchemical Change

2024-2-29

Atmospheric Chemistry: A Critical Voyage Through the History <b>Atmospheric Chemistry: A Critical Voyage Through the History</b> . By D <scp>etlev</scp> M <scp>öller</scp> . Pp. xxii + 914, illus., index. De Gruyter: Berlin. 2022. £156.19 (hardback). ISBN: 978-3-11-073739-4.

2024-1-16

Society for the History of Alchemy and Chemistry Award Scheme 2024

2024-1-2

Making Yellows Last with Nitric Acid: Exploring Colour Permanence in Art and Knowledge, 1600–1850

2024-1-2

Changing Colour: Yellow Dyes from Antiquity to Early Modernity

2024-1-2

The Historical Chemist

2024-1-2

Alchemy and Exemplary Poetry in Middle English Literature <b>Alchemy and Exemplary Poetry in Middle English Literature</b> . By C <scp>urtis</scp> R <scp>unstedler</scp> . Pp. xii+205, index. Springer/Palgrave Macmillan: Cham, Switzerland. 2023. £110.50. ISBN: 978-3-031-26605-8.

2024-1-2

Is Gold Yellow? Plant Dyes and Gold-Making in the Ancient Chemical Arts

2024-1-2

Atoms, Corpuscles and Minima in the Renaissance <b>Atoms, Corpuscles and Minima in the Renaissance</b> . Edited by C <scp>hristoph</scp> L <scp>üthy</scp> and E <scp>lena</scp> N <scp>icoli</scp> . Pp. x + 322, illus., index. Brill: Leiden and Boston. 2023. (Medieval and Early Modern Philosophy and Science, vol. 36). £139.50. ISBN: 978-90-04-52891-8.

2023-12-21

The Alchemy of Conquest: Science, Religion, and the Secrets of the New World <b>The Alchemy of Conquest: Science, Religion, and the Secrets of the New World</b> . By Ralph Bauer. Pp. 670, illus., index. University of Virginia Press: Charlottesville, VA. 2019. £65.50(hardback), £32.50(paperback). ISBN: 9780813942544(hardback), 9780813942568(paperback).

2023-11-21

The Gas Mask in Interwar Germany: Visions of Chemical Modernity <b>The Gas Mask in Interwar Germany: Visions of Chemical Modernity</b> . By Peter Thompson. Pp. 328, illus., index. Cambridge University Press: Cambridge. 2023. £107.00(hardback). ISBN: 978-1-009-314824.

2023-11-7

<i>The Book on Alums and Salts</i> of Pseudo-Rāzī

2023-11-1

John Brian Perkins (12 October 1943 to 20 May 2023)

2023-10-2

2024 Morris Award: Call for Nominations

2023-10-2

Senses and Utility in the New Chemistry

2023-10-2

Economic Poisoning: Industrial Waste and the Chemicalization of American Agriculture <b>Economic Poisoning: Industrial Waste and the Chemicalization of American Agriculture</b> . By Adam M. Romero. Pp. xviii + 251, illus., index, University of California Press: Oakland. 2022. £66.00 (hardcover), £24.00 (paperback). ISBN: 978-0-520-38155-1(hardcover), 978-0-520-38156-8(paperback).

2023-9-27

Wegbereiter der Globalisierung. Multinationale Unternehmen der westeuropäischen Chemieindustrie (1960er-2000er Jahre) <b>Wegbereiter der Globalisierung. Multinationale Unternehmen der westeuropäischen Chemieindustrie (1960er-2000er Jahre)</b> . By Christian Marx. Pp. 912, illus., index. Vandenhoeck &amp; Ruprecht: Göttingen. 2023. £103.00. ISBN: 978-3-525-37104-6

2023-9-27

The Archaeology of Alchemy and Chemistry: Past, Present, and Ideas for the Future

2023-9-12

Gershom Bulkeley, “Saltbox Science,” and the Colonial New England Laboratory

2023-9-12

From Crust to Core: A Chronicle of Deep Carbon Science <b>From Crust to Core: A Chronicle of Deep Carbon Science</b> . By Simon Mitton. Pp. 382, illus., index. Cambridge University Press: Cambridge. 2020. £36.99. ISBN: 978-1-10-842669-5.

2023-8-25

Bodily Fluids, Chemistry and Medicine in the Eighteenth-Century Boerhaave School <b>Bodily Fluids, Chemistry and Medicine in the Eighteenth-Century Boerhaave School</b> . By R <scp>UBEN</scp> E. V <scp>ERWAAL</scp> . Pp. 295 + xv, illus., index. Palgrave Macmillan: Cham. 2020. £102.00. ISBN: 978-3-030-51540-9.

2023-8-22

Poison Powder: The Kepone Disaster in Virginia and its Legacy

2023-7-10

When Ben met Mary: The Letters of Benjamin Thompson, Reichsgraf von Rumford, to Mary Temple, Viscountess Palmerston, 1793–1804

2023-7-3

Making Ammonia: Fritz Haber, Walther Nernst, and the Nature of Scientific Discovery <b>Making Ammonia: Fritz Haber, Walther Nernst, and the Nature of Scientific Discovery</b> . By Benjamin Johnson. Pp. 278, illus., index. Springer Nature: Cham. 2022. £39.99(paperback); open access (ebook). ISBN: 978-3-030-85534-5(paperback); ISBN: 978-3-030-85532-1(ebook)

2023-6-15

Research between Science, Society and Politics: The History and Scientific Development of Green Chemistry

2023-6-12

Ersatzstoffe im Zeitalter der Weltkriege: Geschichte, Bedeutung, Perspektiven

2023-6-7

Long Hard Road: The Lithium-Ion Battery and the Electric Car

2023-5-9

Letters on Natural Philosophy

2023-5-9

Magic, Science, and Religion in Early Modern Europe

2023-4-24

The Partington Prize 2023

2023-4-3

Amateur Science and Innovation in Fireworks in Nineteenth-Century Europe

2023-4-3

Deciphering the <i>Hermeticae Philosophiae Medulla</i> : Textual Cultures of Alchemical Secrecy

2023-4-3