Showing posts with label Heinrich Will. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Heinrich Will. Show all posts

Society for the History of Alchemy and Chemistry Autumn Meeting

Saturday 24 November 2018

The meeting will be held in Chadwick G07, UCL, Gower Street, London.
For directions please visit: UCL Chadwick Building

PROGRAMME

10.45: Registration. Please feel free to bring coffee with you. Soft drinks will be available at the meeting.

11.00–11.40: Dóra Bobory
Count Batthyány’s Letters on Alchemy – An Editorial Project

11.40-12.20: Umberto Veronesi
The Philosophers and the Crucibles: Chymical Practice from the Old Ashmolean Laboratory, Oxford


12.20-13.00: John R.R. Christie
Gender and the Representation of Chemistry: Two cases from the Eighteenth Century

13.00-14.30: LUNCH BREAK. Unfortunately, we are unable to provide lunch at this meeting but there are various cafés nearby, for example at the Friends Meeting House and Wellcome Library.

14.30-15.10: Frank James
Constructing Humphry Davy’s Biographies

15.10-15.50: William Brock
In Liebig’s Shadow: Heinrich Will (1812-90)

15.50-16.30: Michael Jewess
AERE and AEA Technology 1946-2012



The fee is £10 (SHAC and RSC Historical Group members), otherwise £15.
To register please refer to this information