Ambix
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Ambix is a
History
Ambix is one of the oldest journals of the
Publications
Ambix is published four times a year, in February, May, August and November. It is currently published for the Society for the History of Alchemy and Chemistry by Taylor & Francis, which in 2015 purchased Maney Publishing, the previous publisher of Ambix.[4] The name of the journal comes from the Greek word for a still-head (ἄμβιξ), which later gave rise to the word alembic.[5][6]
The papers published in Ambix are refereed by an international editorial board. The journal covers a wide variety of topics in the history of alchemy and chemistry from any historical period and geographical area, including but not limited to chrysopoeia, alchemy and religion, alchemy/chemistry and experiments, alchemy/chemistry and society, alchemical medicine, early modern and Enlightenment chemistry, 19th and 20th-century chemistry, and the history of chemical engineering.[7] The presentation of scientific ideas, methods and discoveries is made as non-technical as possible, consistent with academic rigour and scientific accuracy. Extensive book reviews are published in each issue of Ambix.
The Journal has published several special issues on a variety of topics. A recent special issue was devoted to new studies on Sir Humphry Davy. The special November 2017 issue of Ambix celebrates 80 years of the journal, and includes articles by former Ambix Editor Jennifer Rampling, Hasok Chang, and the 2017 Partington Prize winning paper written by Steve Irish. Earlier special issues include The Royal Typographer and the Alchemist: Willem Silvius and John Dee (2017) and Chemical Knowledge in Transit (2015). In May 2013, 2014, and 2015 three special issues were published on Sites of Chemistry devoted to the eighteenth, nineteenth and twentieth centuries respectively, while the November 2014 special issue concerned Analysis and Synthesis in Medieval and Early Modern Europe.
References
- ISBN 0-9546484-1-2.
- ^ W.H. Brock, "Exploring Early Modern Chemistry: The First Twenty-Five Years of the Society for the Study of Alchemy & Early Modern Chemistry 1935-1960", in Ambix 58 (2011): 191-214, here 199.
- ^ Brock, "Exploring Early Modern Chemistry", 201-207.
- ^ "Ambix". Maney Publishing. Archived from the original on Jul 26, 2011. Retrieved January 10, 2011.
- ISBN 0-393-32068-5.
- ISBN 978-90-04-00617-1.
- ^ Sturchio, ISIS, 302.
- Sturchio, Jeffrey L., "Ambix. Journal of the Society for the History of Alchemy and Chemistry." Isis 81, no. 2, (1990): 300–302.
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