Alchemy and authority in the Holy Roman Empire

Nummedal, Tara E.

Alchemy and authority in the Holy Roman Empire [electronic resource] / Tara Nummedal. - Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 2007. - xvii, 260 p. : ill.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 235-254) and index.

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


Electronic reproduction.
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2013.
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Alchemy--History.
Alchemists--History--Sources.


Holy Roman Empire--History.


Electronic books.

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