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adammclean
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Posted: Thu Dec 3rd, 2009 01:14 pm |
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Antiquity Vol 77 No 298 December 2003
A 16th century lab in a 21st century lab: archaeometric study of the laboratory equipment from Oberstockstall (Kirchberg am Wagram, Austria)
Marcos Martinón-Torres, Thilo Rehren & Sigrid von Osten
http://antiquity.ac.uk/ProjGall/martinon/index.html
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Paul Ferguson
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Posted: Thu Dec 3rd, 2009 02:19 pm |
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"'Therefore, [the alchemist] was not a charlatan or a fabulous conjurer, but rather a true specialist of analytical chemistry,' Dr Martinón-Torres said."
http://www.timeshighereducation.co.uk/story.asp?storyCode=181906§ioncode=26
And here is his lovely poster display from Saragossa:
http://srs.dl.ac.uk/arch/posters/Martinon-Torres_files/v3_document.htm
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Alexander Guthrie Stewart
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Posted: Thu Dec 3rd, 2009 11:12 pm |
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And Marcos is in charge of the course I am not doing here in London...
Recently he gave a talk to the RSC marketing group on this sort of research that he had carried out. (I also met a woman there who has just finished her PhD on the Ripley scrolls)
The paper in Historical Metallurgy is here:
http://www.ucl.ac.uk/archaeology/staff/profiles/martinon/Martinon-TorresRehren2005HMfireassay.pdf
I must ask him if there's anything else going on.
It is somewhat frustrating how little material does survive. If we had a little more we could judge a few things better.
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Leigh Penman
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Posted: Thu Jan 21st, 2010 05:11 pm |
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I think everyone is already aware of this, but there is also a book on Oberstockstall which is actually quite nice. As far as I am aware this is the closest thing to a complete inventory that has been published. There is also some excellent research on those who created and used the lab.
Rudolf Werner Soukup & Helmut Mayer, Alchemistisches Gold. Paracelsistische Pharmaka. Laboratoriumstechnik im 16. Jahrhundert. Chemiegeschichtliche und archäometrische Untersuchungen am Inventar des Laboratoriums von Oberstockstall/Kirchberg am Wagram. Vienna: Bohlau Verlag, 1997.
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Leigh Penman
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Posted: Thu Jan 21st, 2010 05:12 pm |
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| sorry - double post! Last edited on Thu Jan 21st, 2010 05:13 pm by Leigh Penman
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Carl Lavoie
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Posted: Thu Sep 6th, 2012 08:42 pm |
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Beautiful replicas of of laboratory apparatus, on p.111 ff :
http://www.ibttm.org/ENG/museum/collection/4-3.pdf
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