Alch emy and authority in the Holy Roman Empire
By: Tara E. Nummedal.
Publisher: The University of Chicago Press
Published: 2007
Place of publication: Chicago
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780226608563
Subjects: Alchemy -- History; Alchemy -- Religious aspects -- Christianity; Alchemists -- History -- Sources; Religion and science -- History; Religion and social status; Holy Roman Empire -- History
Genres: Sources.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Assembling expertise; title: The Alchemist's personae; title: Entrepreneurial alchemy; title: Contracting the philosophers stone; title: Laboratories, space, and secrecy; title: Betrüger on trial.