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The Business of Alchemy
Science and Culture in the Holy Roman Empire
Taschenbuch von Pamela H Smith
Sprache: Englisch

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In The Business of Alchemy, Pamela Smith explores the relationships among alchemy, the court, and commerce in order to illuminate the cultural history of the Holy Roman Empire in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. In showing how an overriding concern with religious salvation was transformed into a concentration on material increase and economic policies, Smith depicts the rise of modern science and early capitalism. In pursuing this narrative, she focuses on that ideal prey of the cultural historian, an intellectual of the second rank whose career and ideas typify those of a generation. Smith follows the career of Johann Joachim Becher (1635-1682) from university to court, his projects from New World colonies to an old-world Pansophic Panopticon, and his ideas from alchemy to economics. Teasing out the many meanings of alchemy for Becher and his contemporaries, she argues that it provided Becher with not only a direct key to power over nature but also a language by which he could convince his princely patrons that their power too must rest on liquid wealth.
In The Business of Alchemy, Pamela Smith explores the relationships among alchemy, the court, and commerce in order to illuminate the cultural history of the Holy Roman Empire in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. In showing how an overriding concern with religious salvation was transformed into a concentration on material increase and economic policies, Smith depicts the rise of modern science and early capitalism. In pursuing this narrative, she focuses on that ideal prey of the cultural historian, an intellectual of the second rank whose career and ideas typify those of a generation. Smith follows the career of Johann Joachim Becher (1635-1682) from university to court, his projects from New World colonies to an old-world Pansophic Panopticon, and his ideas from alchemy to economics. Teasing out the many meanings of alchemy for Becher and his contemporaries, she argues that it provided Becher with not only a direct key to power over nature but also a language by which he could convince his princely patrons that their power too must rest on liquid wealth.
Über den Autor
Pamela H. Smith
With a new preface by the author
Details
Erscheinungsjahr: 2016
Genre: Importe, Philosophie
Jahrhundert: Renaissance und Aufklärung
Rubrik: Geisteswissenschaften
Medium: Taschenbuch
Inhalt: Einband - flex.(Paperback)
ISBN-13: 9780691173238
ISBN-10: 0691173230
Sprache: Englisch
Einband: Kartoniert / Broschiert
Autor: Smith, Pamela H
Zusammengestellt: Smith, Pamela H.
Auflage: Revised edition
Hersteller: Princeton University Press
Verantwortliche Person für die EU: Libri GmbH, Europaallee 1, D-36244 Bad Hersfeld, gpsr@libri.de
Maße: 233 x 154 x 25 mm
Von/Mit: Pamela H Smith
Erscheinungsdatum: 04.10.2016
Gewicht: 0,479 kg
Artikel-ID: 132586867
Über den Autor
Pamela H. Smith
With a new preface by the author
Details
Erscheinungsjahr: 2016
Genre: Importe, Philosophie
Jahrhundert: Renaissance und Aufklärung
Rubrik: Geisteswissenschaften
Medium: Taschenbuch
Inhalt: Einband - flex.(Paperback)
ISBN-13: 9780691173238
ISBN-10: 0691173230
Sprache: Englisch
Einband: Kartoniert / Broschiert
Autor: Smith, Pamela H
Zusammengestellt: Smith, Pamela H.
Auflage: Revised edition
Hersteller: Princeton University Press
Verantwortliche Person für die EU: Libri GmbH, Europaallee 1, D-36244 Bad Hersfeld, gpsr@libri.de
Maße: 233 x 154 x 25 mm
Von/Mit: Pamela H Smith
Erscheinungsdatum: 04.10.2016
Gewicht: 0,479 kg
Artikel-ID: 132586867
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