Essay Review ID: CBB000070270

A material man: The alchemy of money in J.J. Becher's writings (1996)

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Description Essay review of Pamela H. Smith, The business of alchemy: Science and culture in the Holy Roman Empire (Princeton, 1994).


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Authors & Contributors
Smith, Pamela H.
Teich, Mikuláš
Tomory, Leslie
Timmermans, Benoît
Snow, Vernetta B.
Smith, Justin E. H.
Journals
Science in Context
科学史研究 Kagakusi Kenkyu (History of Science)
Historiographia Linguistica: International Journal for the History of the Language Sciences
Early Science and Medicine: A Journal for the Study of Science, Technology and Medicine in the Pre-modern Period
Publishers
Johns Hopkins University
Concepts
Chemistry
Science
Matter theory
Alchemy
Terminology and nomenclature
Specimens
People
Becher, Johann Joachim
Borch, Ole
Egede, Hans
Brownrigg. William
Sendivogius, Michael
Hoffmann, Friedrich
Time Periods
17th century
18th century
Places
Greenland
Netherlands
Norway
France
Denmark
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