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  1. #Agenda Le vendredi 10 octobre, à 11h heure de Paris, conférence en ligne de Lawrence Principe sur l'alchimie et les origines de la science moderne.
    (Séminaire Quintessence de Hiro Hirai)
    #histsci #histchem #histchi #alchemy

  2. For the #SciArtSeptember prompt knighted, chemist Sir William Henry Perkin (1838-1907)! This #lino block print ‘William Henry Perkin Discovers Mauve’ is about how the British chemist & entrepreneur made the serendipitous discovery of the 1st synthetic organic dye: mauveine. ⁠

    Perkins entered the Royal College of Chemistry in London in 1853 when he was only 15, studying with 🧵1/

    #linocut #printmaking #sciart #chemistry #dye #histsci #MastoArt #chemist #FashionHistory #histchem #colour

  3. Happy birthday to chemist William Henry Perkin (1838-1907)! This #lino print ‘William Henry Perkin Discovers Mauve’ is about how the British chemist & entrepreneur made the serendipitous discovery of the 1st synthetic organic dye: mauveine. ⁠

    Perkins entered the Royal College of Chemistry in London in 1853 when he was only 15, studying with August Wilhelm von Hofmann. 🧵1/n
    #linocut #printmaking #sciart #chemistry #syntheticChemistry #dye #histstm #chemist #FashionHistory #histchem #MastoArt

  4. À la bibliothèque universitaire d'Augsburg, une exposition sur l'histoire du... salpêtre, "le dragon froid" :
    #histsci #histchem
    uni-augsburg.de/en/vkal/ausste

  5. Happy birthday to chemist William Henry Perkin (1838-1907)! This #lino block print ‘William Henry Perkin Discovers Mauve’ is about how the British chemist & entrepreneur made the serendipitous discovery of the 1st synthetic organic dye: mauveine. ⁠

    Perkins entered the Royal College of Chemistry in London in 1853 when he was only 15,


    #linocut #printmaking #sciart #chemistry #serendipity #syntheticChemistry #dye #histstm #chemist #FashionHistory #histchem #purple #mauve #colour