Alchemische Labore

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The alchemical laboratory was a seminal site for the birth of modern science. Before their institutionalization, chymical laboratories were typically makeshift and multipurpose, necessitating an interdisciplinary approach to fully comprehend their role in the evolution of experimental knowledge-making. The international symposium "Alchemical Laboratories: Texts, Practices, Material Relics," which took place in Vienna and Oberstockstall in February 2020, offered a comprehensive exploration of this topic, addressing themes like alchemical experiments as courtly spectacles, the materiality of courtly chymical practice, and the day-to-day operations within early chymical laboratories.The early modern alchemical laboratory is discernible through both textual and material evidence, indicating its significance among practitioners, scholars, aristocrats, and royalty. For instance, the 16th-century laboratory excavated at Oberstockstall Manor (Lower Austria), along with aristocratic correspondence and alchemical medals from the Coin Collection of the Kunsthistorisches Museum Vienna, illuminates the cultural resonance of chymical practices of the era. These relics not only reveal the more technical aspects of alchemy but also its role as an exclusive form of entertainment in elite social circles. From the content: Vorwort (Sarah Lang, Michael Fröstl, Patrick Fiska) | Alchemical Laboratories: Texts, Practices, Material Relics (Sarah Lang) | Alchymistische Kunststücke am kaiserlichen Hof (Rudolf Werner Soukup) | Aurea progenies plumbo prognata parente (Elisabeth Klecker) | Alchemistische Transmutationsmedaillen (Patrick Fiska) | Die Rezeption des spätantiken Alchemisten Stephanos von Alexandria am kaiserlichen Hof (Alexandra Koschiček-Krombholz) | Electrum in the Kunstkammer of Rudolf II (Corinna Gannon) | Material Evidence in Alchemical Texts and Arthur Dee’s Career as Royal Physician (Megan Piorko) | Ein Alchemistenlaboratorium im barocken Dominikanerkloster Münzbach? (Walpurga Oppeker) | Glass and Alchemy in Oberstockstall (Umberto Veronesi) | Der sogenannte „Kasten“ von Gut Oberstockstall (Oliver Fries) | The Alchemy of Everyday Life (Dóra Bobory) | The Laboratories of Michael Sendivogius (Rafał T. Prinke, Kamila Follprecht) | The Alchemical Laboratory in the Mirror of 16th and 17th Century Fine Art (Ivo Purš) | Allegorical Iconography of Alchemical Furnaces (Sergei Zotov) | ECCE! SIEHE! Heinrich Khunraths gläsernes Artificium (Berit Wagner) | Andreas Orthelius und der Processus Universalis (Thomas Moenius, Alexander Kraft, Gerhard Görmar) | Eine Rekonstruktion alchemischer Laborprozesse (Rainer Werthmann, Christian-Heinrich Wunderlich) | Zur Transkription von Alchemica mithilfe der Transkribus-Software (Michael Fröstl, Stefan Zathammer, Sarah Lang) | Verzeichnis der Autorinnen und Autoren

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Sarah Lang
Sarah Lang studied Classics and History in Graz and Montpellier. She has been a DigitalHumanities researcher at Centre for Information Modelling (ZIM) Graz since 2016 whereshe works as a PostDoc since fall 2021. In her 2021 PhD thesis in Digital Humanities shehas developed a machine reasoning algorithm and semantic web based analysis tool foralchemicalDecknamenusing the Neo-Latin corpus of early modern chymist Michael Maier(1568–1622). She has held fellowships at German Historical Institute Paris, Herzog AugustBibliothek Wolfenbüttel, Leibniz Institut für europäische Geschichte Mainz, Ludwig Boltz-mann Institut für Neulatein Innsbruck and the Science History Institute in Philadelphia.She was awarded the Bader Prize for the History of Science by the Austrian Academyof Sciences for her work on computational methods for the history of alchemy in 2021.Since 2023, she is a member of the board of directors of the German Digital Humanitiesassociation,Digital Humanities im deutschsprachigen Raum(DHd)

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