Alchemy and Authority in the Holy Roman Empire by Tara Nummedal

Alchemy and Authority in the Holy Roman Empire

Tara Nummedal

280 pages first pub 2007 (editions)

nonfiction history informative medium-paced
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What distinguished the true alchemist from the fraud? This question animated the lives and labors of the common men—and occasionally women—who made a living as alchemists in the sixteenth- and seventeenth-century Holy Roman Empire. As purveyors of...

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