The Arcanum. The Extraordinary True Story of the Invention of European Porcelain

Janet Gleeson

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Editorial: Bantam Press, London England, 1998

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Hardback. The Arcanum is the story of one of the most extraordinary episodes in European cultural and scientific history, a story of human genius and greed. of demonic cruelty and exquisite beauty, of the best and worst of which mankind is capable. Even at the dawn of the Age of Reason, some of the finest minds in Europe were still pursuing the alchemist's dream of discovering the arcanum, the secret formula for turning base metals into gold. The quest attracted brilliant intellects and cynical charlatans; it also attracted princes and potentates, drawn by the promise of unlimited wealth. Byt the early eighteenth century the quest for that arcanum was beginning to give way to another: the secret of porcelain, the mysterious ceramic that the Chinese had been making for almost one thousand years, so precious that fortunes were squandered on it. To own a porcelain collection was to display wealth and earn prestige. To own the secret of its manufacture would mean sommanding wealth and prestige to an unimaginable degree. Enter King Augustus of Saxony, libertine and spendthrigt. Enter also Johann Friedrich Bottger, soi-disant alchemist. Having given a demonstration of gold-making as a young man, he became set upon a course that was to prove disastrous for him but earn him a place in history. He spent the remainder of his days as a virtual prisoner, condemned by his own promise that he could make gold.or porcelain. How he succeeded, at the cost of his own life, and how he and two other remarkable men created the magic of Meissen is the story of The Acranum. 273 pp. (We carry a wide selection of titles in The Arts, Theology, History, Politics, Social and Physical Sciences. academic and scholarly books and Modern First Editions ,and all types of Academic Literature.).…

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Título
The Arcanum. The Extraordinary True Story of the Invention of European Porcelain
Autor
Janet Gleeson
Editorial
Bantam Press, London England
Año de publicación
1998
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Fine
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Very Good
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Cloth
Idioma
inglés
ISBN 10
0593043480
ISBN 13
9780593043486
Edición
Reprint
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8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall
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