Alchemy and authority in the Holy Roman Empire /
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 e...
Основен автор: | Nummedal, Tara E. |
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Формат: | Електронна книга |
Език: | English |
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Chicago :
University of Chicago Press,
℗♭2007.
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Alchemy and authority in the Holy Roman Empire. |
Съдържание:
- Assembling expertise
- The alchemist's personae
- Entrepreneurial alchemy
- Contracting the philosopher's stone
- Laboratories, space, and secrecy
- Betruger on trial.