Prospero's America [electronic resource] : John Winthrop, Jr., alchemy, and the creation of New England culture, 1606-1676 / Walter W. Woodward.

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Woodward, Walter William

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TextSeries: UPCC book collections on Project MUSEPublication details: Chapel Hill : Published for the Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture by the University of North Carolina Press, c2010. 2015)Description: 1 online resource (viii, 317 p. :) ill., mapsISBN:

9781469603070
1469603071

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Electronic books.

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540.1/1097409032 22

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QD24.W56 W66 2010

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Contents:

John Winthrop, Jr., and the European alchemical movement of the early seventeenth century -- The republic of alchemy and the pansophic moment -- Founding a new London -- Which man's land? Conflict and competition in pequot country -- Alchemical vision refined -- "God's secret": John Winthrop, Jr., alchemical healing, and the medical culture of early New England -- The magus as mediator: witchcraft, alchemy, and authority in the Connecticut witch-hunt of the 1660s -- "Matters of present utility:" John Winthrop, Jr., the Royal Society, and the politics of intelligence in restoration New England.

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