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Alchemies of Scent. Reconstructing the Practices of Ancient Greco-Egyptian Perfumery
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SYSNO ASEP 0582809 Document Type A - Abstract R&D Document Type O - Ostatní Title Alchemies of Scent. Reconstructing the Practices of Ancient Greco-Egyptian Perfumery Author(s) Coughlin, Sean (FLU-F) ORCID Action History of Science, Medicine and Technology Group seminars Event date 24.11.2021 - 24.11.2021 VEvent location Edinburgh Country GB - United Kingdom Event type EUR Language eng - English Keywords Greco-Egyptian perfumery ; Greco-Roman natural philosophy ; history of science ; history of chemistry ; history of alchemy ; material history Subject RIV AA - Philosophy ; Religion OECD category Philosophy, History and Philosophy of science and technology R&D Projects GM21-30494M GA ČR - Czech Science Foundation (CSF) Institutional support FLU-F - RVO:67985955 Annotation I will be introducing the central research questions of a new 5-year study funded by the Czech Science Foundation and hosted at the Institute of Philosophy at the Czech Academy of Sciences in Prague, with a lab at the Institute of Organic Chemistry and Biochemistry. Over the next five years, the project’s team of historians, Egyptologists, philologists and organic chemists will experimentally replicate the recipes of five Greco-Egyptian perfumes.Through these experiments, we will explore how the quest to extract, concentrate, compound and preserve the essences of plants influenced natural philosophy, medicine, art and culture in Ancient Egypt and Ancient Greece from the fourth through first centuries BCE. The talk will focus on the nature of our evidence for ancient Greco-Egyptian perfumery, how experimental methods can add to our understanding of it, and how our methods differ from those of previous studies of perfumes from other areas of the world. Workplace Institute of Philosophy Contact Chlumská Simona, chlumska@flu.cas.cz ; Tichá Zuzana, asep@flu.cas.cz Tel: 221 183 360 Year of Publishing 2024
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