12-29-2023, 10:12 AM
"The alchemical laboratory was the birthplace of modern science. Before their institutionalisation, chymical laboratories were mostly provisional and multifunctional in nature. The international symposium "Alchemical Laboratories: Texts, Practices, Material Legacies", which took place in Vienna and Oberstockstall in February 2020, dealt with alchemical show experiments at court, material legacies of chymical practice and everyday life in laboratories from an interdisciplinary perspective. The early modern alchemical laboratory is tangible through both textual and material legacies, which points to its central importance among practitioners, scholars and the nobility. For example, the laboratory of Oberstockstall (Lower Austria), together with aristocratic correspondence and alchemical medals from the coin collection of the Kunsthistorisches Museum Vienna, illuminates the cultural resonance of the chymical practices of that era. These relics reveal not only the technical aspects of alchemy, but also its role as an exclusive form of entertainment for social elites." (Machine Translation)
Some texts in English, the rest in German.
Univ. of Graz.
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https://library-publishing.uni-graz.at/i...og/book/56
Some texts in English, the rest in German.
Univ. of Graz.
Click on the pdf button:
https://library-publishing.uni-graz.at/i...og/book/56