Online workshop
Friday, 25th May, 10-11.30am Boston/ 3-4.30pm London/ 4-5.30pm Paris
Register for the zoom meeting here.
Presenters: Beatrice Barbara Anne Bottomley, Research fellow, Department of Philosophy, Università di Bologna; Marie Thebaud-Sorger, Director of the Centre Alexandre-Koyré, CNRS, Paris
Our third stony workshop will take us from an Arabic handbook of recipes for illusions, tricks, remedies, and wonders by the thirteenth-century alchemist al-ʿIrāqī to the tales and uses of the mineral (including the bezoar) in the letters of the eighteenth-century engineer and polymath Jean-Claude Pingeron.
All are welcome to join this session, in which brief and informal presentations will be followed by broad interdisciplinary discussion.


Images: Abū Qāsim al-Irāqī, ʿUyūn al-ḥaqāʾiq wa ʾiḍāḥ al-ṭarāʾiq (The Wellsprings of Realities and the Illumination of their Ways), Istanbul Süleymaniye Kütüphanesi MS Halet 00738, fol. 105; [Illustrations de Superstitions orientales], Nicolas Ransonnette, 1785