Topic: Oxford History of Alchemy and Chemistry Seminar

This session is preceded by the SHAC-funded workshop 'Alchemical Melodies'

Chair: John Christie (Oxford)

Georgiana Hedesan (Oxford)

Quintessence and the Fire of Nature: The Alchemical Roots of the ‘Universal Solvent’

Alkahest Judith Mawer (Goldsmiths London) 

The theo-magical roots of Thomas Vaughan's alchemy, as expounded in his Magia Adamica or The Antiquitie of Magic (1650)