Lecture delivered by Eduardo Escobar as part of the Food For Thought Lecture Series
February 2, 2022 @ 12:00 PM (EST), Columbia SIPA (Online)
Write up on the talk, ‘Embracing Uncertainty: Babylonian Habits of Thinking in the Modern World’
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.