Ambix

Aims
Ambix is an internationally recognised, peer reviewed journal and one of the leading publications in its field, which is viewed as an important outlet for current research. Published three times a year, in March, July and November and now available online to institutional subscribers, its remit has always been to facilitate the publication of high-quality research and discussion in all aspects of the history of alchemy and chemistry, including the chemical industry. Recently, its scope has been broadened to cover the history of pharmacy and environmental studies of the chemical industry. The Editor also welcomes articles and shorter pieces about archives and other sources, and from time to time an issue will be devoted to a particular theme, based on a selection of papers presented at an international conference or invited.

Ambix also publishes reviews in English of books dealing with any aspect of the history of alchemy and chemistry, and the Review Editor is happy to consider books for review that have been published in any of the languages which fall within the bounds of scholarship in its fields.

Scope
Over the last six decades Ambix has published articles relating to early modern chemistry, the Chemical Revolution, the impact of atomism, the rise of organic chemistry, and the development of the chemical sciences in the twentieth century. In the field of alchemy it has likewise published a wide range of articles on such diverse themes as the origins of Greek alchemy, Islamic alchemy, Paracelsus, John Dee, and Newton's alchemical interests. Recent special issues have been devoted to environmental history, Justus von Liebig, and the history of organic reaction mechanisms.

Ambix welcomes high-quality submissions based on original research in these and other areas, and while the Editor would like to be able to strike a balance between the history of alchemy and chemistry in terms of space within each volume this is not always possible, owing to variations in attention given by scholars to the areas covered by the journal.

Ambix was founded at the same time as the Society for the Study of Alchemy and Early Chemistry in 1937, which subsequently became the Society for the History of Alchemy and Chemistry. The first editor was the eminent historian of chemistry (and future Director of the Science Museum) F. Sherwood Taylor.

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