The Business of Alchemy : : Science and Culture in the Holy Roman Empire / / Pamela H. Smith.
In The Business of Alchemy, Pamela Smith explores the relationships among alchemy, the court, and commerce in order to illuminate the cultural history of the Holy Roman Empire in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. In showing how an overriding concern with religious salvation was transformed in...
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| Place / Publishing House: | Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2016] ©2017 |
| Year of Publication: | 2016 |
| Language: | English |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (336 p.) :; 30 halftones. |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of illustrations
- Preface to the New Paperback Edition
- Acknowledgments
- Prologue. Evocation
- One. Provenances
- Two. Oeconomia Rerum et Verborum: Constructing a Political Space in the Holy Roman Empire
- Three. The Commerce of Words: An Exchange of Credit at the Court of the Elector in Munich
- West Indian Interlude
- Four. The Production of Things: A Transmutation at the Habsburg Court
- Interlude in the Laboratory
- Five. Between Words and Things: The Commerce of Scholars and the Promise of Ars
- Epilogue. Projection
- Bibliography
- Index