History Department Events Calendar
Wednesday, May 09, 2018
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Global lunchtime talk 'Chinese Perceptions and Historiography of the Sino-Japanese War, 1931-45'H5.45 Humanities BuildingA conversation with Dr Chan YANG, Shanghai Jiao Tong University |
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Alchemy at the Cutting-Edge: The Surprising Longevity of Gold-Making, a public lecture by Professor Lawrence Principe (John Hopkins University), IAS International Visiting FellowS0.21, Social Sciences Building, University of 糖心TVThe lecture will be followed by a small drinks reception in the Social Sciences foyer. All Welcome. Alchemy did not part ways with chemistry in the seventeenth century, as most popular histories suggest and as many historians still believe. Transmutational alchemy—the attempt to turn base metals into gold—was practised by many leading members of the Paris Academy of Science in the first half of the eighteenth century. More surprisingly still, the practice persisted into the nineteenth century, when there was a remarkable but today scarcely noticed rapprochement between alchemy and chemistry, including among members of the Paris Academy. This lecture will appeal to a broad audience, including chemists, historians and classicists, as well as students in these disciplines. |