"Alchemy in Motion: The Trilingual Tradition of the Liber de aluminibus et salibus"

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

Place: 6th Floor Conference Room, Chemical Heritage Foundation

The Liber de aluminibus et salibus is one of the most famous alchemical books of Medieval Arabic alchemy. In this talk Ferrario will trace the history of the transmission of this treatise, underlining the distinctive features that are typical of the Arabic original, of its Hebrew and Latin translations, and of its quotations found in later printed works.