Alchemy and authority in the Holy Roman Empire
| Titel: | Alchemy and authority in the Holy Roman Empire / Tara Nummedal |
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| Veröffentlicht: | Chicago [u.a.] : Univ. of Chicago Press, 2007 |
| Umfang: | XVII, 260 S. : Ill. ; 24 cm |
| Format: | Buch |
| Sprache: | Englisch |
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| ISBN: | 9780226608563 ; 0226608565 |
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- List of Figures
- p. ix
- Acknowledgments
- p. xi
- Note on Early Modern Weights and Measures
- p. xv
- Abbreviations
- p. xvii
- Introduction
- p. 1
- 1
- Assembling Expertise
- p. 17
- 2
- The Alchemist's Personae
- p. 40
- 3
- Entrepreneurial Alchemy
- p. 73
- 4
- Contracting the Philosophers' Stone
- p. 96
- 5
- Laboratories, Space, and Secrecy
- p. 119
- 6
- Betruger on Trial
- p. 147
- Conclusion: The Problem of Authority
- p. 177
- Notes
- p. 181
- Selected Bibliography
- p. 235
- Index
- p. 255
