Alchemy and authority in the Holy Roman Empire:
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1. Verfasser: Nummedal, Tara E. (VerfasserIn)
Format: Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: Chicago The University of Chicago Press [2007]
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Beschreibung:Includes bibliographical references (p. 235-254) and index
Assembling expertise -- The alchemist's personae -- Entrepreneurial alchemy -- Contracting the philosopher's stone -- Laboratories, space, and secrecy -- Betrüger on trial
What distinguished the true alchemist from the fraud? This question animated the lives and labors of the common men?and occasionally women?who made a living as alchemists in the sixteenth- and seventeenth-century Holy Roman Empire. As purveyors of practical techniques, inventions, and cures, these entrepreneurs were prized by princely patrons, who relied upon alchemists to bolster their political fortunes. At the same time, satirists, artists, and other commentators used the figure of the alchemist as a symbol for Europe?s social and economic ills. Drawing on criminal trial records, contracts
Beschreibung:1 Online-Ressource (xvii, 260 Seiten)
ISBN:9780226608570
0226608573

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