| Wednesday, 19 July |
| 6:00 p.m. |
Welcome Reception |
| 7:15 p.m. |
Concert: "The Philosophers' Tone"
Presented by Arcanum |
| 8:00 p.m. |
Adjourn for the Evening |
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| Thursday, 20 July |
| 8:30 a.m. |
Continental Breakfast at CHF |
| 9:15 a.m. |
Opening Remarks |
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Session 1 |
Paracelsians and Paracelsianism
Chair: Bruce Moran |
| 9:30 a.m. |
Didier Kahn, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique/Université de Paris-Sorbonne (Paris IV)
"King Henri IV, Alchemy, and Paracelsianism in France (1589–1610)" |
| 10:00 a.m. |
Dane Daniel, Wright State University, Ohio
"Coping with Heresy: Suchten, Toxites, and the Early Reception of Paracelsus' Theology" |
| 10:30 a.m. |
Break |
| 11:00 a.m. |
Jole Shackelford, University of Minnesota
"Paracelsian Chemical Uroscopy in Theory and Practice" |
| 11:30 a.m. |
Peter Forshaw, University of London
" Alchemical Exegesis: Interpreting Hermes" |
| 12:00 p.m. |
Lunch (on your own) |
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Session 2 |
Alchemical Disputes
Chair: Pamela Smith |
| 2:30 p.m. |
Stephen Clucas, University of London
"Alchemy and Certainty" |
| 3:00 p.m. |
Tara Nummedal, Brown University
"Fraud and the Problem of Authority in Early Modern Alchemy" |
| 3:30 p.m. |
Break |
| 4:00 p.m. |
Brigitte Van Tiggelen, Université Catholique de Louvain/Katholieke Universiteit te Leuven
"Fakes, Lies, and Plagiarism: The Relentless Conflict between the Chymists Farner and Glauber" |
| 4:30 p.m. |
Rémi Franckowiak, Université Charles-de-Gaulle, Lille 3
"1661: The Sceptical Chymist Goes Forth When the Vulgar Chymist Gets In" |
| 5:00 p.m. |
Adjourn for the Day |
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| Friday, 21 July |
| 8:30 a.m. |
Continental Breakfast at CHF |
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Session 3 |
Topics in 17th-Century Alchemy: Jesuits, Libavius, and Newton
Chair: Lawrence Principe |
| 9:30 a.m. |
Margaret Garber, California State University, Fullerton
"Transitioning from Transubstantiation to Transmutation: Catholic Anxieties over Chymical Matter Theory at the University of Prague " |
| 10:00 a.m. |
Hiro Hirai, Universiteit Gent
"Kircher's Chymical Interpretation of the Creation and Spontaneous Generation" |
| 10:30 a.m. |
Break |
| 10:45 a.m. |
Bruce Moran, University of Nevada, Reno/Wellcome Trust Centre for the History of Medicine, University College London
"The Libavius Nobody Knows: Magisteries, Astral Virtues, and Occult Qualities in the Philosophy of an Aristotelian and Hermetic Alchemist" |
| 11:15 a.m. |
William R. Newman, Indiana University, Bloomington
"New Light on a Black Hole: Current Research on Newton 's Alchemy" |
| 11:45 a.m. |
Lunch at CHF |
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| Session 4 |
Art and Archeology of Alchemy
Chair: Bernard Joly |
| 1:00 p.m. |
Barbara Obrist, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique/EPHE/Université de Paris VII
"‘Nuda Natura' and the Alchemist in Jean Perréal's Early 16th-Century Miniature" |
| 1:30 p.m. |
Marcos Martinón-Torres, University of London
"The Tools of the Chymist: Archaeological and Scientific Analysis of Early Modern Crucibles" |
| 2:00 p.m. |
Free afternoon for using the Roy G. Neville Historical Chemical Library and other CHF collections, and for touring CHF and Philadelphia |
| 5:00 p.m. |
Gathering with Light Refreshments |
| 6:00 p.m. |
Round Table Discussion : Directions and Critical Issues in the Study of Alchemy and Chymistry |
| 7:30 p.m. |
Adjourn for the Day |
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| Saturday, 22 July |
| 8:30 a.m. |
Continental Breakfast at CHF |
Note: Sessions 5A and 5B will run simultaneously in different locations from 9:00 a.m. to 12:00 p.m. |
Session 5A |
Salts, Chymistry in Late 17th-Century France, and Boerhaave
Chair: Claus Priesner |
| 9:00 a.m. |
Gabriele Ferrario, Università Ca' Foscari, Venezia
"Origins and Transmission of the Liber de aluminibus et salibus" |
| 9:30 a.m. |
Wouter J. Hanegraaff, University of Amsterdam
"Pseudo-Lullian Alchemy and the Mercurial Phoenix: Giovanni Mercurio da Correggio's De Quercu Iulii pontificis, sive de lapide philosophico" |
| 10:00 a.m. |
Victor Boantza, University of Toronto
"Vitalism in the Age of Mechanism: Duclos's Critique of Boyle" |
| 10:30 a.m. |
Break |
| 11:00 a.m. |
Luc Peterschmitt, Université Charles-de-Gaulle,
Lille 3
"The ‘Cartesians' and Chemistry: Cordemoy, Rohault, and Regis" |
| 11:30 a.m. |
John C. Powers, Sarah Lawrence College, New York
"Scrutinizing the Alchemists: Hermann Boerhaave and the Testing of Chymistry" |
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Session 5B |
Literary Alchemy and Mining, Metallurgy, and Archeology
Chair: Stephen Clucas |
| 9:00 a.m. |
Anke Timmermann, University of Cambridge
"Lives of Alchemical Poems: A New Perspective on the Ripley Scrolls" |
| 9:30 a.m. |
Allison B. Kavey, CUNY-John Jay College
"Mercurial Aspects: Gender and Sex in Popular English Alchemy" |
| 10:00 a.m. |
Hjalmar Fors, Kungliga Tekniska Högskolan [Royal Institute of Technology], Stockholm/Uppsala Universitet
"Occult Traditions and Rising Rationalism at the Swedish Board of Mines (1680–1750)" |
| 10:30 a.m. |
Break |
| 11:00 a.m. |
Robert Hicks and John Theibault, Chemical Heritage Foundation, Philadelphia
"German Metallurgists and Elizabethan Colonialism" |
| 11:30 a.m. |
Rudolf Werner Soukup, Technische Universität Wien
"Crucibles, Cupels, Cucurbits: Recent Results of Research on Paracelsian Alchemy in Austria around 1600" |
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| 12:00 p.m. |
Lunch (on your own) |
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Session 6 |
Alchemy in the 18th Century
Chair: William Newman |
| 2:30 p.m. |
Kevin (Ku-Ming) Chang, Academia Sinica, Taipei
"From Vitalistic Cosmos to Materialistic Earth: Reconsidering the Chymical Lineage of J. J. Becher and G. E. Stahl" |
| 3:00 p.m. |
Bernard Joly, Université Charles-de-Gaulle, Lille 3
"Quarrels Between E. F. Geoffroy and Louis Lémery at the Académie Royale des Sciences in the Early 18th Century" |
| 3:30 p.m. |
Break |
| 4:00 p.m. |
Carl-Michael Edenborg, Stockholm
"The Shame of Alchemy: Exclusion of the Alchemical Tradition from the Public Sphere in the Late 18th Century" |
| 4:30 p.m. |
Claus Priesner, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität/ Neue Deutsche Biographie, Munich
" Alchemy and Enlightenment in Germany : Ideas, Biographies, Secret Societies, and a Changing Cultural Context" |
| 5:00 p.m. |
Free Time before Reception |
| 7:00 p.m. |
Closing Reception |
| 8:00 p.m. |
Conference Banquet
James J. Bohning, Lehigh University, Pennsylvania
"Chemist Collector Roy Neville, Bibliophile Extraordinaire" |
