Ambix, Volume 70, Issue 2 (2023)

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Amateur Science and Innovation in Fireworks in Nineteenth-Century Europe
Barry Sturman & David Garrioch
Pages: 109-130
Published online: 09 May 2023
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George E. Davis: Editing the Chemical Trade Journal, 1887–1906
Peter Reed
Pages: 131-149
Published online: 09 May 2023
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Deciphering the Hermeticae Philosophiae Medulla: Textual Cultures of Alchemical Secrecy
Megan Piorko, Sarah Lang & Richard Bean
Pages: 150-183
Published online: 10 May 2023
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Reviews: Special Focus: A Cultural History of Chemistry

Book Review
A Cultural History of Chemistry
A Cultural History of Chemistry. Series editors Peter J. T. Morris and Alan Rocke. Pp. 1728 (six volumes), illus., index. Bloomsbury: London. 2022. £395.00 (set of 6 hardback volumes). ISBN: 978-1-4742-9492-8
Tillmann Taape
Pages: 184-186
Published online: 10 Mar 2023
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A Cultural History of Chemistry in Antiquity (vol. 1)
Edited by Marco Beretta. Pp. 294, illus., index. Bloomsbury: London. 2022. £395.00 (6-volume set). ISBN: 978-1-4742-9453-9. This volume is available in open access at http://doi.org/10.5040/9781474203746 (CC-BY-NC-ND 4.0).
Olivier Dufault
Pages: 186-188
Published online: 16 Mar 2023
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A Cultural History of Chemistry in the Middle Ages (vol. 2)
Edited by Charles Burnett and Sébastien Moureau. Pp. 214, illus., index. Bloomsbury: London. 2022. £395.00 (6-volume set). ISBN: 978-1-47-429454-6.
William Royall Newman
Pages: 188-190
Published online: 13 Mar 2023
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A Cultural History of Chemistry in the Early Modern Age (vol. 3)
Edited by Bruce Moran. Pp. 265, illus., index. Bloomsbury: London and New York. 2022. £395.00 (6-volume set). ISBN 978-1-4742-9459-1.
Anna Marie Roos
Pages: 190-192
Published online: 14 Mar 2023
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A Cultural History of Chemistry in the Eighteenth Century (vol. 4)
Edited by Matthew Daniel Eddy and Ursula Klein. Pp. 238, illus. index. Bloomsbury: London, 2022. £395.00 (6-volume set). ISBN: 978-1-4742-9465-2.
Georgette Taylor
Pages: 192-194
Published online: 10 Mar 2023
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A Cultural History of Chemistry in the Nineteenth Century (vol. 5)
Edited By Peter Ramberg. Pp. xiii + 272, illus., index. Bloomsbury: London. 2022. £395.00 (6-volume set). ISBN: 978-1-4742-9480-5.
Hasok Chang
Pages: 194-196
Published online: 16 Mar 2023
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A Cultural History of Chemistry in the Modern Age (vol. 6)
Edited by Peter Morris. Pp. 271 + xiv, illus., index. Bloomsbury: London, 2022. £395.00 (6-volume set). ISBN: 978-1-47-429481-2.
Evan Hepler-Smith
Pages: 197-199
Published online: 16 Mar 2023
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Book Reviews

Book Review
How to Sell a Poison
By Elena Conis. Pp. 388, index. Bold Type Books: New York. 2022. £25.00. ISBN: 9-781-64-503674-6 (hardcover). ISBN 9-781-6403675-3 (ebook).
Silvia Pérez-Criado
Pages: 200-201
Published online: 13 Jan 2023
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From Lived Experience to the Written Word: Reconstructing Practical Knowledge in the Early Modern World
By Pamela H. Smith. Pp. 344, illus., index. University of Chicago Press: Chicago & London. 2022. £79.00 (hardback), £29.00 (paperback). ISBN: 978-0-22-680027-1 (hardback), 978-0-22-681824-5 (paperback).
Sven Dupré
Pages: 201-202
Published online: 27 Jan 2023
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March of the Pigments: Color History, Science and Impact
By Mary Virginia Orna. Pp. xix + 477, illus., index. Royal Society of Chemistry: London. 2022. £34.99. ISBN (print): 978-183916-315-9; (ePub eISBN): 978-183916-326-5.
Jo Kirby
Pages: 202-204
Published online: 03 Mar 2023
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Announcement

Announcement
The Partington Prize 2023
Page: 205
Published online: 05 Apr 2023
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