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Sites of Chemistry in the Nineteenth Century (2014)

Ambix: Journal of the Society for the History of Alchemy and Chemistry
Volume: 61, no. 2
Issue: 2
Pages: 109-114

Publication Date: 2014
Edition Details: Introduction to a special issue, “Sites of Chemistry in the Nineteenth Century”
Language: English

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The three articles in this special issue of Ambix were among the twenty-one papers presented at the conference Sites of Chemistry in the Nineteenth Century, held in Valencia at the Institute for the History of Medicine and Science `López Piñero' in July 2012. This meeting was the second of the series of conferences organised as part of the project Sites of Chemistry, 1600--2000, the aim of which was to investigate the wide and diverse range of physical spaces and places where chemistry has been practised from the early modern period to the twentieth century. Many historians of chemistry have employed printed, manuscript and iconographic sources in order to show what different sites of chemistry looked like in the past, how they were geographically distributed, and how objects and users were placed within them. But it is certainly more difficult to discuss how these sites were shaped, physically, socially and culturally, and how they interacted with the making and communication of chemical knowledge. Sites of chemistry are very often presented as containers, as backdrops, as passive scenarios where chemical activities took place. A primary objective for the Sites of Chemistry project has been to offer a forum in which historians of chemistry are encouraged to reflect on the role of sites and places as active components of chemical knowledge production and communication practices.

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Article Nawa, Christine (2014) A Refuge for Inorganic Chemistry: Bunsen's Heidelberg Laboratory. Ambix: Journal of the Society for the History of Alchemy and Chemistry (pp. 115-140). unapi

Article Simmons, Anna (2014) Stills, Status, Stocks and Science: The Laboratories at Apothecaries' Hall in the Nineteenth Century. Ambix: Journal of the Society for the History of Alchemy and Chemistry (pp. 141-161). unapi

Article Bertomeu-Sánchez, José Ramón (2014) Classrooms, Salons, Academies, and Courts: Mateu Orfila (1787--1853) and Nineteenth-Century French Toxicology. Ambix: Journal of the Society for the History of Alchemy and Chemistry (pp. 162-186). unapi

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