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Didier Kahn is a Researcher at the CNRS, in the "Centre d'étude de la langue et de la littérature françaises des XVIe et XVIIe siècles" (CELLF 17e-18e). He is the author of Alchimie et paracelsisme en France à la fin de la Renaissance (1567-1625) (Geneva: Droz, 2007), and his next book is an annotated edition of Montfaucon de Villar's Le Comte de Gabalis (1670), to be published by Champion (Paris) by December 2010. He is currently preparing a book on early modern French alchemical circles and patronage, and another on the cultural context of alchemical debates in early modern France.
Mar Rey Bueno completed her PhD at the University Complutense of Madrid in 2000 with a thesis entitled "Tradición y Modernidad. La asistencia farmacéutica en la corte española de los siglos XVI y XVII," receiving the Extraordinary Doctorate award of this University for her work. She has eleven books and a long list of chapters of books, articles and exhibitions to her name, mainly related to the history of alchemy, early modern Spanish magic, and women in Spanish culture. She has done much of her work as independent scholar since 2004. She is currently running a course at El Escorial on the History of Pharmacy. After more than ten years of research, she is preparing an edition on Spain's King Philip II.
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