What Are the Historians Doing in the Laboratory?! The Methods and Methodology of Reconstructing BNF MS. FR. 640

Time: 12:00 to 1:00 p.m.

Location: Chemical Heritage Foundation, 315 Chestnut Street, Philadelphia, PA 19106

Event Type: Open to the Public

Fee: Free

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Joel Klein is a lecturer at Columbia University and a research fellow in the Chemical Heritage Foundation′s Institute for Research. He specializes in the history of science and medicine in the 16th and 17th centuries, with a special emphasis on the interactions among chymistry, medicine, and atomism in German universities.

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