The Business of Alchemy: Science and Culture in the Holy Roman Empire

Abstract

Cover -- Title -- Copyright -- CONTENTS -- LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS -- PREFACE TO THE NEW PAPERBACK EDITION -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- Prologue: Evocation -- ONE: Provenances -- TWO: Oeconomia rerum et verborum: Constructing a Political Space in the Holy Roman Empire -- THREE: The Commerce of Words: An Exchange of Credit at the Court of the Elector in Munich -- West Indian Interlude -- FOUR: The Production of Things: A Transmutation at the Habsburg Court -- Interlude in the Laboratory -- FIVE: Between Words and Things: The Commerce of Scholars and the Promise of Ars -- Epilogue: Projection -- BIBLIOGRAPHY -- INDEX