Alchemy reveals its steamy secrets! CHF fellow Joel Klein will explore imagery of sex and sexuality in alchemical texts and artwork.
Using computer-based image analysis and historical detective work, Alex Boxer considers the famous anamorphic skull in Hans Holbein’s painting The Ambassadors.
From Distillations
From Chemical Heritage
Science on Tap
Brown Bag Lecture: “Jean-Baptiste Dumas (1800–1884): Chemistry, Industry, Labor, and the French Bourgeoisie”
Brown Bag Lecture: “Affinity and Self-Experiment: J. W. Ritter’s Galvanic Poetics”
Rohm and Haas Fellow in Focus Lecture
Science Carnival: What’s in Your Water?
Science on Tap Quizzo
Detail of Chemistry, Engraved by J. Chapman
Portrait of F. W. Clarke.
Donato d’Eremita, Dell' elixir vitae (1624)
Prototype for the Perkin-Elmer Model 12 Infrared Spectrophotometer
Sears Chemistry Set, ca. 1958
Detail of The Chemist, Edward Allen Schmidt, 19th century
Comparison of Fertilizers, Fixed Nitrogen Research Laboratory
Otto Tachenius, Hippocrates chymicus (1677)