Pub Date : 2023-11-01Epub Date: 2023-09-12DOI: 10.1080/00026980.2023.2253619
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 updated bibliography and biography of Bulkeley and then engage an assemblage of surviving commonplace and account books, inventories, a vade mecum, and several books discovered to have been previously owned by Bulkeley. In order to understand Bulkeley's laboratory, I coin the term "saltbox science," arguing that his work combined European textual knowledge and temporal and material adaptations within the colonial household and town. I describe first his creative flexibility in regard to the construction of laboratory furnaces that were based on designs initially gained from Europeans. Thereafter, I demonstrate how his laboratory practice was embedded within his household and his town's temporal rhythms and material networks. Bulkeley's "saltbox science" is meant to serve as a template for understanding a certain domestic class of seventeenth-century colonial New England alchemists who, in general, leave behind little archival evidence of their laboratory activities.
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Pub Date : 2023-11-01Epub Date: 2023-10-30DOI: 10.1080/00026980.2023.2265708
Frank James
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Pub Date : 2023-09-27DOI: 10.1080/00026980.2023.2259186
Carsten Reinhardt
"Wegbereiter der Globalisierung. Multinationale Unternehmen der westeuropäischen Chemieindustrie (1960er-2000er Jahre)." Ambix, ahead-of-print(ahead-of-print), pp. 1–2
"全球化的发明西欧化工(20世纪60年代)跨国公司。”你这聪明的混蛋
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Pub Date : 2023-09-27DOI: 10.1080/00026980.2023.2259185
Niccolò Mignemi
"Economic Poisoning: Industrial Waste and the Chemicalization of American Agriculture." Ambix, ahead-of-print(ahead-of-print), pp. 1–2
《经济中毒:工业废料和美国农业的化学化》《印前》，第1-2页
{"title":"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).","authors":"Niccolò Mignemi","doi":"10.1080/00026980.2023.2259185","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/00026980.2023.2259185","url":null,"abstract":"\"Economic Poisoning: Industrial Waste and the Chemicalization of American Agriculture.\" Ambix, ahead-of-print(ahead-of-print), pp. 1–2","PeriodicalId":50963,"journal":{"name":"Ambix","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-09-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135539147","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"哲学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2023-08-25DOI: 10.1080/00026980.2023.2248835
A. Milon
{"title":"From Crust to Core: A Chronicle of Deep Carbon Science","authors":"A. Milon","doi":"10.1080/00026980.2023.2248835","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/00026980.2023.2248835","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":50963,"journal":{"name":"Ambix","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.5,"publicationDate":"2023-08-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46457369","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"哲学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2023-08-22DOI: 10.1080/00026980.2023.2248836
J. Powers
{"title":"Bodily Fluids, Chemistry and Medicine in the Eighteenth-Century Boerhaave School","authors":"J. Powers","doi":"10.1080/00026980.2023.2248836","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/00026980.2023.2248836","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":50963,"journal":{"name":"Ambix","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.5,"publicationDate":"2023-08-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48816817","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"哲学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2023-08-01DOI: 10.1080/00026980.2023.2234717
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 purpose of providing historical evidence, but as part of a decade-long friendship which the letters trace, revealing, among other things, Rumford's other amours. They also describe in some detail his thoughts about his activities as a member of the governing elite in Bavaria, his scientific and engineering researches (especially the writing and publication of his Essays), as well as what he would have termed his philanthropic efforts in Bavaria, Northern Italy, Britain, and Ireland. All this is framed within the context of the Revolutionary and Napoleonic wars that in so many ways, directly and indirectly, affected Palmerston's and Rumford's lives and work.
{"title":"When Ben met Mary: The Letters of Benjamin Thompson, Reichsgraf von Rumford, to Mary Temple, Viscountess Palmerston, 1793-1804.","authors":"Frank A J L James","doi":"10.1080/00026980.2023.2234717","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/00026980.2023.2234717","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>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 purpose of providing historical evidence, but as part of a decade-long friendship which the letters trace, revealing, among other things, Rumford's other amours. They also describe in some detail his thoughts about his activities as a member of the governing elite in Bavaria, his scientific and engineering researches (especially the writing and publication of his <i>Essays</i>), as well as what he would have termed his philanthropic efforts in Bavaria, Northern Italy, Britain, and Ireland. All this is framed within the context of the Revolutionary and Napoleonic wars that in so many ways, directly and indirectly, affected Palmerston's and Rumford's lives and work.</p>","PeriodicalId":50963,"journal":{"name":"Ambix","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.5,"publicationDate":"2023-08-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"10150892","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"哲学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2023-07-10DOI: 10.1080/00026980.2023.2233226
Sofiya Kamalova
{"title":"Poison Powder: The Kepone Disaster in Virginia and its Legacy","authors":"Sofiya Kamalova","doi":"10.1080/00026980.2023.2233226","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/00026980.2023.2233226","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":50963,"journal":{"name":"Ambix","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.5,"publicationDate":"2023-07-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44243245","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"哲学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2023-06-15DOI: 10.1080/00026980.2023.2222587
P. Joshi
{"title":"Making Ammonia: Fritz Haber, Walther Nernst, and the Nature of Scientific Discovery","authors":"P. Joshi","doi":"10.1080/00026980.2023.2222587","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/00026980.2023.2222587","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":50963,"journal":{"name":"Ambix","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.5,"publicationDate":"2023-06-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45095210","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"哲学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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