All events will be held in the auditorium in Bowen Hall, Princeton University.
Thursday, May 26, 2022
14.00 – 15.00 – PRISM and Library Exhibition Tours
15.15–15.30 – Introductions and Welcome
15.30–17.00 – Alchemical Imagery and Experimental Practice
Chair: Angela Creager (Princeton University)
“Alchemical Imagery and Experimental Practice (Part 1): Origins, Varieties, and Purposes”
Lawrence M. Principe (Johns Hopkins University)
“Alchemical Imagery and Experimental Practice (Part 2): Philosophical Solvents and the Ripley Scroll”
Jennifer M. Rampling (Princeton University)
17:15 – Reception at the Milberg Gallery
Friday, May 27, 2022
08.30 – Breakfast (Bowen Hall atrium)
09.00 – 10.30 – The Origins of Alchemical Imagery
Chair: Lawrence M. Principe
Marina Escolano-Poveda (University of Liverpool)
“Zosimos Aigyptiakos: Identifying the Imagery of the ‘Visions’ and Locating Zosimos of Panopolis in His Egyptian Context”
Sergei Zotov (University of Warwick)
“Possible Traces of Islamic Imagery in European Alchemical Manuscripts”
10.30 – 11.00 – Tea and coffee break (Bowen Hall atrium)
11.00 – 12.30 – Diagramming Alchemy
Chair: Peter J. Forshaw
Marlis Hinckley (Johns Hopkins University)
“Alchemical and Philosophical Diagrams in the Pseudo-Lullian Liber de secretis naturae”
Stephen Clucas (Birkbeck, University of London)
“John Dee in the Garden of the Hesperides”
12.30 – 13.45 – Lunch (Bowen Hall atrium)
13.45 – 15.45 – Art and the Boundaries of Alchemy
Chair: Carolina Mangone (Princeton University)
Melissa Reynolds (Princeton University)
“Learning to Look: Imagery Beyond Alchemy in English Manuscripts”
Janna Israel (Princeton University Art Museum)
“The Imagery of Alchemical Instrumentation”
Sharifa Lookman (Princeton University)
“Between Metallurgy and Alchemy: On Scientific Designations in Early Modern Images and Objects”
15.45 – 16.15 – Tea and coffee break (Bowen Hall atrium)
16.00 – 17.00 – PRISM and Library exhibition tours
18.30 – Reception and conference dinner (Friend Center)
Saturday, May 28, 2022
09.30 – Breakfast (Bowen Hall atrium)
10.00 – 12.00 – Alchemical Imagery in Seventeenth-Century Europe
Chair: Jennifer M. Rampling
Peter J. Forshaw (University of Amsterdam)
“‘In Contumeliam gloriae Dei’: Rosicrucian Condemnation of Theoalchemy, Culprits and Consequences?”
Didier Kahn (CNRS, Paris)
“Alchemical Eccentricities in a Latin Roman à clef from the mid-Seventeenth Century”
William R. Newman (Indiana University, Bloomington)
“Alchemical Illustrations in the Manuscript Corpus of Isaac Newton”
12.00 – 13.00 – Lunch (Bowen Hall atrium)
13.00 – 14.30 – Alchemical Imagery: Past and Present
Chair: Meagan Allen (Science History Institute)
Donna Bilak (NYU Gallatin)
“Mining, Alchemy, and Environmental Transformation: The Earth as an Alembic”
Leah DeVun (Rutgers University)
“Nonbinary Gender and the Art of Alchemy”