Divining Science: Treasure Hunting and Earth Science in Early Modern Germany: Treasure Hunting and Earth Science in the Early Modern Germany: 52 (Studies in Central European Histories, 52) - Tapa dura

Dym, Warren

 
9789004186422: Divining Science: Treasure Hunting and Earth Science in Early Modern Germany: Treasure Hunting and Earth Science in the Early Modern Germany: 52 (Studies in Central European Histories, 52)

Sinopsis

The patronage of dowsers by mining administrations through the eighteenth century challenges common assumptions about the Enlightenment. Rather than decline in importance like alchemy and astrology, dowsing transformed from a study of mineral vapors into an experimental branch of geophysics.

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Acerca del autor

Warren Alexander Dym, Ph.D. (2005) in History, University of California, Davis, is presently visiting assistant professor at University of Miami. He publishes on German mining and earth science history.

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