AlchemEast International Workshop organized by Marco Beretta and Matteo Martelli to bring together the authors contributing to the forthcoming first volume of the Cultural History of Chemistry.
Invited speakers: J. Cale Johnson, Sydney Aufrère
June 4, 2018, Department of Philosophy and Communication Studies, Bologna
The AlchemEast project is devoted to the study of alchemical theory and practice as it appeared and developed in distinct, albeit contiguous (both chronologically and geographically) areas: Graeco-Roman Egypt, Byzantium, and the Near East, from Ancient Babylonian times to the early Islamic Period.