@article{859143,
      recid = {859143},
      author = {Nummedal, Tara E.},
      title = {Alchemy and authority in the Holy Roman Empire /},
      publisher = {University of Chicago Press,},
      address = {Chicago :},
      pages = {1 online resource (xvii, 260 pages) :},
      year = {2007},
      abstract = {What distinguished the true alchemist from the fraud? This  question animated the lives and labors of the common  men?and occasionally women?who made a living as alchemists  in the sixteenth- and seventeenth-century Holy Roman  Empire. As purveyors of practical techniques, inventions,  and cures, these entrepreneurs were prized by princely  patrons, who relied upon alchemists to bolster their  political fortunes. At the same time, satirists, artists,  and other commentators used the figure of the alchemist as  a symbol for Europe?s social and economic ills. Drawing on  criminal trial records, contracts,},
      url = {http://library.usi.edu/record/859143},
}