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The Common Technical Vocabulary of Perfumery, Dyeing, and Alchemy
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SYSNO ASEP 0583344 Druh ASEP A - Abstrakt Zařazení RIV O - Ostatní Název The Common Technical Vocabulary of Perfumery, Dyeing, and Alchemy Tvůrce(i) Coughlin, Sean (FLU-F) ORCID Akce A Department of Classics and Ancient History seminar Datum konání 29.03.2023 - 29.03.2023 Místo konání Exeter Země GB - Velká Británie Typ akce WRD Jazyk dok. eng - angličtina Klíč. slova history of science ; history of chemistry ; history of perfumery ; history of alchemy ; history of luxury ; stypsis ; experimental philology Vědní obor RIV AA - Filosofie a náboženství Obor OECD Philosophy, History and Philosophy of science and technology CEP GM21-30494M GA ČR - Grantová agentura ČR Institucionální podpora FLU-F - RVO:67985955 Anotace My narrow aim in the lecture is to suggest that familiar translations of perfumery-related terms are often misleading and cause us to miss connections between perfumery and arts I am calling Venerean, by which I mean the arts of producing (not digging up) luxury goods, especially dyeing clothes, production of artificial precious stones and metals. I focus on the case of stypsis. Stypsis is usually translated into English as ‘thicken’ in perfumery contexts, as ‘mordant’ in dyeing contexts, and as ‘make astringent’ in all others. None of our sources however suggest the process it names has anything to do with thickening. The story of how the name for the process came to be associated with thickening is itself an obscure and interesting story. My aim is to show, however, that what stypsis means in the context of perfumery can be understood in the same way as in contexts of dyeing and the manufacture of artificial precious stones and metals. We will use a little kitchen chemistry to explore what those processes are like. My larger aim is to offer a test case of what we can learn about ancient arts by looking at technical vocabulary used in common across them. This vocabulary is worth looking at because it encodes for both technical processes and theoretical presuppositions. In other words, the vocabulary is reliable (but not exhaustive) evidence for how they thought their methods worked. This can in turn contribute to mapping the phylogeny of natural and applied sciences, and ultimately. I am curious what that phylogeny can teach us about the variation and transmission of both techniques and assumptions about how natural materials can be used. Pracoviště Filosofický ústav Kontakt Chlumská Simona, chlumska@flu.cas.cz ; Tichá Zuzana, asep@flu.cas.cz Tel: 221 183 360 Rok sběru 2024
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