Alchemy and Authority in the Holy Roman Empire

Contents

List of Figures  
Acknowledgments  
Note on Early Modern Weights and Measures  
Abbreviations  
 
Introduction  1
1. Assembling Expertise  
2. The Alchemist’s Personae  
3. Entrepreneurial Alchemy  
4. Contracting the Philosophers’ Stone  
5. Laboratories, Space, and Secrecy  
6. Betrüger on Trial  
Conclusion: The Problem of Authority  
 
Notes  
Selected Bibliography  
Index