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Jennifer Rampling

is Associate Professor of History at Princeton, where she teaches in the Program in History of Science. She is the author of The Experimental Fire: Inventing English Alchemy, 1300–1700 (2020), and has published articles on alchemy, John Dee, and scientific themes in Shakespeare. She is currently writing a book on alchemical imagery.
High spirits: Alchemy in Elizabethan England
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High spirits: Alchemy in Elizabethan England

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Jennifer Rampling

Jennifer Rampling, a Princeton history professor and author of The Experimental Fire: Inventing English Alchemy, 1300–1700, explores alchemy in Shakespeare’s England.