Book ID: CBB000773330

Alchemy and Authority in the Holy Roman Empire (2007)

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Nummedal, Tara Elaine (Author)


University of Chicago Press


Publication Date: 2007
Physical Details: xvii + 260 pp.; ill.; bibl.; index
Language: English

Description Using criminal trial records, contracts, laboratory inventories, satires, and vernacular alchemical treatises, the book shows how alchemists were a central part of early modern science and commerce.


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Authors & Contributors
Haas, Philip
Franssen, Mathieu
Degroot, Dagomar
Green, Adrian
Crosbie, Barbara
Aaron Cheak
Journals
Studies in History and Philosophy of Science
Pharmacy in History
Nei Menggu Shifan Daxue Xuebao (Ziran Kexue Ban)
Isis: International Review Devoted to the History of Science and Its Cultural Influences
Berichte zur Wissenschaftsgeschichte
Ambix: Journal of the Society for the History of Alchemy and Chemistry
Publishers
Yale University Press
Boydell Press
Verlag der Joseph Kuhl Gesellschaft
Brill Hes
Rubedo Press
Edizioni Osiride
Concepts
Business and commerce
Alchemy
Science and society
Trials (law)
Trade
Science and law
People
Clapmarius, Arnoldus
Zieglerin, Anna Maria
Worsley, Benjamin
Ripley, George
Kelly, Edward
Dee, John
Time Periods
17th century
16th century
18th century
Renaissance
Early modern
19th century
Places
Holy Roman Empire
England
Netherlands
Italy
Great Britain
Poland
Institutions
Altdorf. Universität
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