22 septembre 2021
Marie Thebaud-Sorger, « Society for the History of Alchemy and Chemistry (SHAC) Online Seminar », Materials and Time, ID : 10670/1.ug98o1
Thursday 23 September 2021 ‘The Discrete Charm of Platinum’ Dr Mariana Sanchez-Daza (Université Paris Diderot) and Dr John Christie (University of Oxford) This talk will analyze temporal aspects of the material platinum, beginning briefly with the astrophysical processes which originate it and the astronomical and geophysical processes which have embedded it in planet Earth, then proceeding to the historical temporalities within which platinum became a subject of human cognizance, enq...