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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. Agrarian Society Regarded Merchants With Suspicion As The Nonproductive Exploiters Of Others' Labor; However, Territoria

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Author

Pamela H Smith, 1957-

Publisher

Princeton University Press

Published

1994

Language

EN

ISBN

9781400844159

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

Sociology, History, Science