清华科史哲讲座第44讲预告:Mike Zuber,“ 炼金术的挑战——语文学、理论与实践”

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清华科史哲讲座第44讲预告:Mike Zuber,“ 炼金术的挑战——语文学、理论与实践”

主题:炼金术的挑战——语文学、理论与实践

Topic: The Challenges of Alchemy: Philology, Theory, and Practice

主讲人:Mike A. Zuber (Institute for Advanced Studies in the Humanities, University of Queensland)

时间:2021年10月8日(周五)16:00–18:00

方式:Zoom会议 967 9833 3831

会议密码:714179

内容提要:

Well before the chemical revolution accomplished by Antoine Lavoisier in the late eighteenth century, what we now recognize as “chemistry” was mostly practised by alchemists. Alchemy, its literature, and practice were, and continue to be, rife with challenges, both for practitioners in history and researchers today.This lecture presents some of these challenges by following the trajectory of the alchemist’s work from textual acquisition to theory-guided interpretation and, ultimately, to experimental practice. Alchemy helps us question the divide between the sciences and the humanities, and it shows the many difficulties of experimental work in the pre-modern era. Contrary to a strong tendency in recent historiography to speak of “chymistry” and “chemistry” rather than “alchemy,” the argument holds that it makes sense to retain the term.

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清华科史哲讲座第44讲预告:Mike Zuber,“ 炼金术的挑战——语文学、理论与实践”

        Mike A. Zuber is a Research Fellow at the University of Queensland’s Institute for Advanced Studies in the Humanities in Brisbane, Australia. He is the author of Spiritual Alchemy: From Jacob Boehme to Mary Anne Atwood (Oxford University Press, 2021) and various journal articles. His research concerns the scientific revolution of the early-modern period, notably alchemy and chemistry, as well as interactions between science and religion. In 2017 he received his doctorate with distinction at the University of Amsterdam. Before joining the University of Queensland, he pursued postdoctoral research at the University of Oxford with funding from the Swiss National Science Foundation. He also held short research fellowships at the Scaliger Institute Leiden and the Research Centre Gotha.

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