Ambix安比克斯
Ambix(英文缩写 AMBIX),ISSN 0002-6980,eISSN 1745-8234,中文译名:安比克斯 是一本学术期刊。本页汇总该期刊的最新影响因子、分区信息以及最新收录于 PubMed 的文献,帮助您快速了解期刊全貌。
发文量统计区间：2025-09-27 至 2026-09-27，按本站收录文献的发表日期统计。
期刊介绍
历年影响因子趋势
| JCR 数据年份 | 影响因子 | JCR 分区 |
|---|---|---|
| 2021 | 0.618 | Q3 |
| 2022 | 0.500 | Q3 |
| 2023 | 0.300 | Q3 |
| 2024 | 0.600 | Q2 |
| 2025 | 0.600 | Q3 |
Ambix 最新收录文献
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3. Aristotelianism and Hermeticism in Renaissance Naples: Francesco Storella and the Secrets of Alchemy.
PMID:日期:2026-02-01This article examines the role of the logician Francesco Storella (active ca. 1550-1575) in contributing to the intellectual and social legitimation of alchemy in mid sixteenth-century Naples. Storella achieved this by leveraging the tradition of the "Hermetic Aristotle," focusing on his 1555 edition and commentary of the . The study first analyses Storella's philological strategies, including the historicisation of the text and the use of the , to firmly link Aristotle's authority to the Hermetic foundation of alchemy. Second, it demonstrates how Storella mobilised his philosophical logic to defend the as a rational and demonstrable discipline, compatible with a physico-astrological framework (Albertine tradition) necessary for achieving genuine metallic transmutation. Finally, the study reconstructs the Neapolitan intellectual network linking Storella with the philologist Domenico Pizzimenti and the young naturalist Giambattista della Porta. This confluence, unified by a commitment to the rational justification of and an Albertine-influenced physics, highlights Naples as an exceptional point of convergence where academic theory, philological rigour, and experimental practice merged. This robust synthesis conferred a decisive epistemological and social status upon alchemy within Renaissance Aristotelianism, providing the essential cosmological and rational justification for the transmutation of metals.
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4. National Chemical Societies and the Formation of Early Global Networks, ca. 1890-1914.
PMID:日期:2025-12-12Historians suggesting an early phase of globalisation in the decades before the First World War have pointed to new specialist learned societies as among the agents in the process. This paper explores the international dimensions of national chemical societies in this era of empires. During the nineteenth century, national chemical societies were established in many countries. Four of the earliest and largest - the [British] Chemical Society (founded 1841), the (1857), the (1867), and the American Chemical Society (1876) - recruited numerous members living abroad, so that, by the early twentieth century, such "extra-national" members - members, that is, who lived outside the state in which the society was based - constituted a substantial share of their memberships. Our paper examines this phenomenon. It argues that an analysis of extra-national members can help us chart the spread of chemistry around the globe. It considers whether the extra-national memberships of these chemical societies can be seen as constituting early, overlapping global networks of individuals, based on their common membership of leading societies.
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5. Harpsichord Wires as Multifaceted Materials in Scientific Experiments from the Eighteenth to the Nineteenth Centuries.
PMID:日期:2025-12-12The supply of experimental materials greatly influences the practice of science. Before the establishment of modern commercial distribution systems for experimental materials, researchers often used mundane substances. The wires of the harpsichord, a representative keyboard instrument of the Baroque era, were used as "multifaceted materials" in physical and chemical experiments from the eighteenth to the nineteenth centuries. Because the wires were made of largely pure iron, they were utilised as a standard substance in permanganometry until their impurities proved experimentally problematic. Although the early wires gradually disappeared from chemical experiments around the beginning of the twentieth century, they were reincarnated as steel wires with the advent of the modern harpsichord and reemerged as actors on the musical stage in the context of Neoclassical music. As a result of shifting practices in the use of harpsichord wires, the concept of a standard substance in titration gradually took shape at the intersection of the histories of science and music.
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7. Alchemy, the Vernacular, and Text Production in Late Medieval England: Presentation Strategies in Trinity College, Cambridge, MSS O.5.31 and R.14.37.
PMID:日期:2025-11-11The article studies the strategies that late-medieval scribes used to present alchemical texts to their audience. Investigating two late fifteenth-century alchemical codices - Trinity College, Cambridge, MSS O.5.31 and R.14.37, both almost exclusively written in English - we demonstrate that the copyists took considerable pains to present reader-friendly texts. They provided neatly separated textual units, furnishing them with headings, manicules (pointing hands), and even a table of contents. This organisation is supported by the use of various ink colours, letter sizes, and framing devices. The appearance suggests significant pre-planning, perhaps even in a commercial context. We argue that these manuscripts highlight how readers engaged with alchemical texts and, by extension, that they reveal the importance afforded to texts and the vernacular as a vehicle for disseminating alchemical knowledge. In other words, it is not only the number of surviving manuscripts and their alchemical contents that are good indicators of late-medieval valuations of alchemy. Our study underscores how the visual materiality of extant textual artefacts also constitutes crucial evidence for our understanding of how practitioners used alchemical texts. It also exposes the place of alchemical texts in the text production industry of the time and illustrates the status of fifteenth-century alchemy more widely.
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8. "To Be Mindful of Their Sensitivities:" The Chinese American Chemical Society and the Scientific Diaspora.
PMID:日期:2025-11-11This paper investigates the Chinese American Chemical Society (CACS) as an organisation of the scientific diaspora at the end of the Cold War. Established in 1981 by mostly first-generation immigrants, the CACS adopted a non-political stance to boost the career of its members in the United States, China, and Taiwan. Tracing this non-political sensitivity to its founder, Jesse Hwa (1924-2008), the paper begins with Hwa's career as an immigrant scientist and his experience with China at the beginning of its economic reforms of the 1970s. It then studies the CACS's ambition to overcome the Cold War divide in the 1980s and reach out to Taiwan and China simultaneously. However, with limited success in technology transfer and facing issues in expanding the membership, the CACS faced a further crisis in the June Fourth Incident of 1989. As the officers tried to maintain the non-political stance amid varying responses from its members, the CACS increasingly turned attention to forging an identity for Chinese American chemists. By analysing the strategies of the CACS in building a community within the scientific diaspora, the paper enriches current scholarship on the history of twentieth-century chemistry and science diplomacy during the final days of the Cold War.
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10. William Hodson ("Bill") Brock (15 December 1936-16 February 2025).
PMID:日期:2025-05-01This obituary of William Hodson ("Bill") Brock (1936-2025) outlines his life and career as one of the leading historians of science, especially chemistry, of his generation. It describes his difficult childhood, his work at the University of Leicester (where he spent his entire career), his research and writing, and his contributions to the history of science community, concluding with a summary of the remarkable number of tributes paid to him following his death.