An AlchemEast panel hosted by the conference ‘Il teatro della natura’ of the Italian Society for the History of Science (SISS):
Chairs: Marco Beretta and Matteo Martelli
Daniele Morrone, La mirabile fusione fredda del piombo da Pseudo-Aristotele a Plutarco
Marco Bellini, Pietrificazione: trasmutazione e meraviglie naturali nell’antichità classica e bizantina
Masayo Watanabe, Nature in the Jābirian Corpus
Giorgia Pausillo, Le illustrazioni nei manoscritti alchemici bizantini: problemi e nuove prospettive
Catania, 19-21 November 2020 (online via Teams)
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.