Prospero's America
Subtitle: John Winthrop, Jr., alchemy, and the creation of New England culture, 1606-1676
By: Walter W. Woodward
Contributors: Omohundro Institute of Early American History & Culture
Publisher: Published for the Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture by the University of North Carolina Press
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Chapel Hill
Language: eng
Number of pages: 317
ISBN-13: 9780807833018
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: John Winthrop, Jr., and the European alchemical movement of the early seventeenth century; title: The republic of alchemy and the pansophic moment; title: Founding a new London; title: Which man's land? Conflict and competition in pequot country; title: Alchemical vision refined; title: "God's secret": John Winthrop, Jr., alchemical healing, and the medical culture of early New England; title: The magus as mediator: witchcraft, alchemy, and authority in the Connecticut witch-hunt of the 1660s; title: "Matters of present utility:" John Winthrop, Jr., the Royal Society, and the politics of intelligence in restoration New England.