Alchemy and authority in the Holy Roman Empire, Tara Nummedal
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Alchemy and authority in the Holy Roman Empire, Tara Nummedal
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eng
Bibliography note
Includes bibliographical references (pages 235-254) and index
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illustrations
Index
index present
Literary form
non fiction
Main title
Alchemy and authority in the Holy Roman Empire
Nature of contents
bibliography
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80020100
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Tara Nummedal
Summary
"Drawing on criminal trial records, contracts, laboratory inventories, satires, and vernacular alchemical treatises, Alchemy and Authority in the Holy Roman Empire situates the everyday alchemists, largely invisible to modern scholars until now, at the center of the development of early modern science and commerce. Reconstructing the workaday world of entrepreneurial alchemists, Tara Nummedal shows how allegations of fraud shaped their practices and prospects. These debates not only reveal enormously diverse understandings of what the "real" alchemy was and who could practice it; they also connect a set of little known practitioners to the largest question about commerce, trust, and intellectual authority in early modern Europe."--BOOK JACKET
Table of contents
Assembling expertise -- The alchemist's personae -- Entrepreneurial alchemy -- Contracting the philosopher's stone -- Laboratories, space, and secrecy -- Betrüger on trial
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