Ambix, Volume 67, Issue 4 (2020)

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Materials, Furnaces, and Texts: How to Write About Making Glass Colours in the Seventeenth Century
Thijs Hagendijk, Márcia Vilarigues & Sven Dupré
Pages: 323-345
Published online: 12 Oct 2020
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Fuit Ille non Empiricus Mercenarius: Apprehensions to Alchemy in Colonial New England
Theodore R. Delwiche
Pages: 346-365
Published online: 08 Oct 2020
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Chemical Paradigm vs. Biological Paradigm in the Biological Clock Controversy
Jole Shackelford
Pages: 366-388
Published online: 12 Oct 2020
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The Curious Story of the Chemical Society’s Missing Obituary of John Lloyd Bullock
William H. Brock
Pages: 389-399
Published online: 15 Oct 2020
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Book Review
A True Adept
Newton, the Alchemist. By William R. Newman. Pp. xxii + 538, illus., index. Princeton University Press: Princeton & Oxford. 2019. £34.00. ISBN: 978-0-6911-7487-7 (hardback).
Cornelis J. Schilt
Pages: 400-407
Published online: 18 Sep 2020
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The Historic Role of Alchemy in the Holy Roman Empire
Anna Zieglerin and the Lion's Blood: Alchemy and End Times in Reformation Germany. By Tara Nummedal. Pp. 304, illus., index. University of Pennsylvania Press: Philadelphia. 2019. £43. ISBN 978-0-81-225089-3.
Bruce Janacek
Pages: 408-415
Published online: 18 Sep 2020
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Ymage de Vie: Spéculation et Expérimentation dans un Traité d’Alchimie Médiévale
By Geneviève Dumas. Pp. 293, illus., index. Presses universitaires de la Méditerranée: Montpellier. 2019. £19. ISBN: 978-2-36781-323-3
Curtis Runstedler
Pages: 416-417
Published online: 04 Sep 2020
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Natural knowledge and Aristotelianism at Early Modern Protestant Universities
Edited by Pietro Daniel Omodeo and Volkhard Wels. Pp. 342, illus. Harrassowitz Verlag: Wiesbaden. 2019. £65, free ebook on publisher’s website. ISBN 978-3-447-11265-9.
Fred Kim
Pages: 418-419
Published online: 04 Sep 2020
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“Liebig lebt!” 100 Jahre Liebig Museum im Laboratorium
Edited by Eduard Alter. Pp. 33, illus. Liebig Museum: Giessen. 2020. €6.Das Liebig-Laboratorium von seinen Anfängen bis in die Gegenwart. Festschrift zum 100Jährigen Jubiläum des Liebigs-Museum. (Berichte der Justus Liebig-Gesellschaft zu Giessen. Band 10). By Franziska Müller. Pp. 173, illus. Justus Liebig-Gesellschaft: Giessen. 2020. €14. ISSN: 0940-3426.
William H. Brock
Pages: 419-420
Published online: 02 Oct 2020
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2021 Morris Award: Call for Nominations
Pages: 421-422
Published online: 23 Sep 2020
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