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  1. The Alchemy of Conquest
    Science, Religion, and the Secrets of the New World
    Author: Bauer, Ralph
    Published: 2019
    Publisher:  University of Virginia Press, Charlottesville ; ProQuest, Ann Arbor, Michigan

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    Universität Mainz, Zentralbibliothek
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    Source: Union catalogues
    Contributor: Brickhouse, Anna; Gruesz, Kirsten Silva
    Language: English
    Media type: Ebook
    Format: Online
    ISBN: 9780813942551
    Series: Writing the Early Americas
    Subjects: Literatur; Nordamerika <Motiv>; Alchemie <Motiv>; Entdeckung <Motiv>
    Scope: 1 Online-Ressource (671 pages)
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  2. The alchemy of conquest
    science, religion, and the secrets of the New World
    Author: Bauer, Ralph
    Published: 2019
    Publisher:  University of Virginia Press, Charlottesville ; London

    "This book explores the role that the verbal, conceptual, and visual language of alchemy played in the literature of the conquest of America and in the rise of an early modern paradigm of discovery in both science and international law. While the... more

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    Universitätsbibliothek Duisburg-Essen
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    "This book explores the role that the verbal, conceptual, and visual language of alchemy played in the literature of the conquest of America and in the rise of an early modern paradigm of discovery in both science and international law. While the roots of the modern 'conquistadorial' attitude toward nature lie in late medieval alchemy, which fused Aristotelian reason with Christian apocalypticism in the militant context of crusade and spiritual conquest, this book argues that the modern idea of what it means to discover something has a colonial history in which conquest legitimated the modern (Baconian) idea of discovery by underwriting it with religious messianism and early modern state power. Thus, the book traces the intellectual and spiritual legacies of such late medieval alchemists as Roger Bacon, Arnald of Villanova, and Ramon Llull in the early modern literature of the conquest of America in texts written by authors such as Christopher Columbus, Amerigo Vespucci, José de Acosta, Nicolás Monardes, Walter Raleigh, Thomas Harriot, Francis Bacon, and Alexander von Humboldt"--

     
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    Source: Union catalogues
    Language: English
    Media type: Ebook
    Format: Online
    ISBN: 9780813942551
    RVK Categories: RB 10029
    Series: Writing the early Americas
    Subjects: Nordamerika <Motiv>; Alchemie <Motiv>; Entdeckung <Motiv>; Literatur
    Other subjects: America / Early accounts to 1600 / History and criticism; Alchemy / Early works to 1800 / History and criticism; America / Discovery and exploration; Alchemy; Discoveries in geography; America; Criticism, interpretation, etc; Early works
    Scope: 1 Online-Ressource (xvi, 649 Seiten), Illustrationen
  3. <<The>> alchemy of conquest
    science, religion, and the secrets of the New World
    Author: Bauer, Ralph
    Published: 2019
    Publisher:  University of Virginia Press, Charlottesville ; London

    "This book explores the role that the verbal, conceptual, and visual language of alchemy played in the literature of the conquest of America and in the rise of an early modern paradigm of discovery in both science and international law. While the... more

    Location:
    Universitätsbibliothek Duisburg-Essen
    Inter-library loan:
    No inter-library loan

     

    "This book explores the role that the verbal, conceptual, and visual language of alchemy played in the literature of the conquest of America and in the rise of an early modern paradigm of discovery in both science and international law. While the roots of the modern 'conquistadorial' attitude toward nature lie in late medieval alchemy, which fused Aristotelian reason with Christian apocalypticism in the militant context of crusade and spiritual conquest, this book argues that the modern idea of what it means to discover something has a colonial history in which conquest legitimated the modern (Baconian) idea of discovery by underwriting it with religious messianism and early modern state power. Thus, the book traces the intellectual and spiritual legacies of such late medieval alchemists as Roger Bacon, Arnald of Villanova, and Ramon Llull in the early modern literature of the conquest of America in texts written by authors such as Christopher Columbus, Amerigo Vespucci, José de Acosta, Nicolás Monardes, Walter Raleigh, Thomas Harriot, Francis Bacon, and Alexander von Humboldt"--

     
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    Source: Union catalogues
    Language: English
    Media type: Ebook
    Format: Online
    ISBN: 9780813942551
    RVK Categories: RB 10029
    Series: Writing the early Americas
    Subjects: Literatur; Nordamerika <Motiv>; Alchemie <Motiv>; Entdeckung <Motiv>; Geschichte;
    Other subjects: America / Early accounts to 1600 / History and criticism; Alchemy / Early works to 1800 / History and criticism; America / Discovery and exploration; Alchemy; Discoveries in geography; America; Criticism, interpretation, etc; Early works
    Scope: 1 Online-Ressource (xvi, 649 Seiten), Illustrationen