Table of Contents for Smith, P.H.: The Business of Alchemy: Science and Culture in the Holy Roman Empire.

The Business of Alchemy:
Science and Culture in the Holy Roman Empire
Pamela H. Smith

TABLE OF CONTENTS:

List of Illustrations
Acknowledgments
Prologue
Evocation 3
1 Provenances 14
2 Oeconomia rerum et verborum: Constructing a Political Space in the Holy Roman Empire 56
3 The Commerce of Words: An Exchange of Credit at the Court of the Elector in Munich 93
West Indian Interlude 141
4 The Production of Things: A Transmutation at the Habsburg Court 173
Interlude in the Laboratory 228
5 Between Words and Things: The Commerce of Scholars and the Promise of Ars 247
Epilogue: Projection 272
Biography 279
Index 303