Pub Date : 2024-08-01Epub Date: 2024-07-25DOI: 10.1080/00026980.2024.2371260
Justin Begley
This article focuses on a curious manuscript treatise in the British Library, Harley MS 6940, which the learned physician Samuel Bispham composed for the English patron and horseman William Cavendish (1593-1676), most likely in the mid-1640s. Sitting somewhere between a practical medical recipe book and theoretical chymical treatise, while being peppered with traditional causal explanations and Galenic precautions, Harley MS 6940 testifies to the erosion of the entrenched dichotomy between chymical and Galenic medicine in the mid-seventeenth century. Harley MS 6940 also lays bare how a learned physician used (and taught the use of) practice to confirm and sometimes challenge his learning, offering a counterpoint to recent scholarship that underscores the learning that apothecaries used to shore up their practice. Produced at the behest of a leading Royalist who sought both to acquire techniques for distilling and fermenting herbs and to advance his knowledge of chymical conceptions of spirits, seeds, and salts, the manuscript allows us to appreciate that the chymical art animated a broader set of individuals than the historiography often implies.
本文的重点是大英图书馆收藏的一部奇特的论文手稿--哈雷 MS 6940，它是博学的医生塞缪尔-比斯法姆（Samuel Bispham）为英国赞助人和骑手威廉-卡文迪什（William Cavendish，1593-1676 年）创作的，很可能是在 1640 年代中期。哈雷 MS 6940 介于实用医学食谱和理论性糜烂医学论文之间，同时还夹杂着传统的因果关系解释和盖勒尼医学的预防措施，它证明了糜烂医学和盖勒尼医学之间根深蒂固的二分法在 17 世纪中叶的消退。哈雷 MS 6940 还揭示了一位学识渊博的医生是如何利用（并教授如何利用）实践来证实有时也是挑战自己的学识的，这与近期强调药剂师利用学识来巩固其实践的学术研究形成了对立。这份手稿是应一位主要保皇党人的要求而制作的，这位保皇党人既想获得蒸馏和发酵草药的技术，又想提高自己对烈酒、种子和盐类的糜烂概念的认识，因此这份手稿让我们认识到，糜烂艺术比历史学通常所暗示的更能激发更多的人。
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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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