Alchemy and authority in the Holy Roman Empire

• Main Author: Nummedal, Tara E.
• Format: Electronic
• Language: English
• Published: Chicago : University of Chicago Press, c2007.
• Subjects: Alchemy > History.; Alchemists.; SCIENCE > General. > Chemistry; Holy Roman Empire > History.; Electronic books.
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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...

Table of Contents:

• Assembling expertise
• The alchemist's personae
• Entrepreneurial alchemy
• Contracting the philosopher's stone
• Laboratories, space, and secrecy
• Betrüger on trial.