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Prospero's America
2013,2010,2011
Overview
InProspero's America, Walter W. Woodward examines the transfer of alchemical culture to America by John Winthrop, Jr., one of English colonization's early giants. Winthrop participated in a pan-European network of natural philosophers who believed alchemy could improve the human condition and hasten Christ's Second Coming. Woodward demonstrates the influence of Winthrop and his philosophy on New England's cultural formation: its settlement, economy, religious toleration, Indian relations, medical practice, witchcraft prosecution, and imperial diplomacy.Prospero's Americareconceptualizes the significance of early modern science in shaping New England hand in hand with Puritanism and politics.
Publisher
The University of North Carolina Press,Published for the Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture by the University of North Carolina Press,Omohundro Institute of Early American History & Culture,Omohundro Institute and University of North Caroli
Subject
/ Alchemists -- New England -- Biography
/ Alchemy
/ Alchemy -- New England -- Biography
/ Alchemy -- New England -- History -- 17th century
/ Famous Persons -- New England -- Biography
/ History
/ History of Science & Technology
/ History, Modern 1601- -- New England
ISBN
9780807833018, 1469600870, 9781469600871, 0807833010
