Pub Date : 2024-08-01Epub Date: 2024-07-10DOI: 10.1080/00026980.2024.2372195
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Pub Date : 2024-08-01Epub Date: 2024-07-26DOI: 10.1080/00026980.2024.2379961
Charles Wolfe
In what follows I examine Diderot's chemically influenced vital materialism. Once condemned as "mechanistic," materialism has had something of a renaissance in recent decades as scholars have rediscovered a tradition of "vital materialism" which they have opposed to older, cruder forms of the idea, e.g. materialisms full of life, affect, chimiatry, and transformation. Sometimes these rediscoveries have attached themselves to a figure of the past, like Margaret Cavendish's metaphysics of active matter, or to a construct of the still-emerging future, like Karen Barad's quantum physics-nourished "agential realism" present in all of matter. Another question concerns the extent to which these revivals of "vital" or "active-matter" materialism should be traced back to older Renaissance naturalisms. In what follows, I return to Diderot and the question of his "vital materialism." Diderot draws both on older traditions, approvingly citing Van Helmont and gesturing towards a new chemistry of living matter and also speaks the language of scientific revolution, writing that "We are on the verge of a great revolution in the sciences." In earlier work I sought to connect this language of revolution in the sciences to the emergence of biology as a science. Here I focus on his chemically charged materialism.
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Pub Date : 2024-07-10DOI: 10.1080/00026980.2024.2368942
Frank Veraart
Published in Ambix (Ahead of Print, 2024)
发表于《Ambix》（2024 年提前出版）
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Pub Date : 2024-04-16DOI: 10.1080/00026980.2024.2339658
Maria Fiammetta Iovine
Created and published in a printed volume in 1611, the emblem chosen by the literary Academy of the Umoristi is intriguing at multiple levels. At a time when the water cycle was still unknown, the ...
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Pub Date : 2024-04-15DOI: 10.1080/00026980.2024.2338632
Stefano Mulas
Research into the history of alchemy and Paracelsianism in Italy has highlighted the role of Italian courts in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries as centres of elaboration and diffusion of alc...
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Pub Date : 2024-04-05DOI: 10.1080/00026980.2024.2324618
Marco Beretta
During the eighteenth century, authors of chemical treatises and courses on chemistry often introduced their work with a chapter devoted to the history of chemistry. While there may have been diffe...
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Pub Date : 2024-03-15DOI: 10.1080/00026980.2024.2325218
Cleo Nisse
Published in Ambix (Ahead of Print, 2024)
发表于《Ambix》（2024 年提前出版）
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Pub Date : 2024-03-15DOI: 10.1080/00026980.2024.2325323
Andrés Vélez-Posada
Published in Ambix (Ahead of Print, 2024)
发表于《Ambix》（2024 年提前出版）
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Pub Date : 2024-03-13DOI: 10.1080/00026980.2024.2321688
David E. Lewis
Published in Ambix (Ahead of Print, 2024)
发表于《Ambix》（2024 年提前出版）
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Pub Date : 2024-02-01Epub Date: 2024-02-29DOI: 10.1080/00026980.2024.2309059
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 Grey Wolves. While the process of yellowing, or citrination, often appears in medieval recipes, it seems to have interested commentators less than the more familiar processes of blackening, whitening, or reddening. Yet beyond these canonical colours, yellowness turns out to be ubiquitous in alchemy and its associated craft practices, both in Latin texts and vernacular translations. This paper uses source criticism and experimental reconstruction to interrogate the role of yellowness at the beginning, middle, and end of practice, focusing on fifteenth- and sixteenth-century England. As starting ingredients, yellow vitriol and litharge offered the potential for transmutation but also posed problems for identification and preparation. As an intermediate stage, yellowness offered promising signs of future success, in the form of dramatic colour changes and unexpected products. But yellowness also offered an end in itself, as appears from the many citrination processes attested in recipe collections which aimed to imitate the properties of gold - suggesting that yellowing was prized as a significant indicator of chemical change across diverse areas of craft practice.
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