TY - BOOK AU - Woodward,Walter William ED - Omohundro Institute of Early American History & Culture. ED - Project Muse. TI - Prospero's America: John Winthrop, Jr., alchemy, and the creation of New England culture, 1606-1676 SN - 9781469603070 AV - QD24.W56 W66 2010 U1 - 540.1/1097409032 22 PY - 2010/// CY - Chapel Hill PB - Published for the Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture by the University of North Carolina Press KW - Winthrop, John, KW - History, Modern 1601- KW - New England KW - Famous Persons KW - Biography KW - Alchemy KW - History KW - 17th century KW - Alchemists KW - Electronic books. KW - local N1 - Includes bibliographical references and index; 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 UR - https://muse.jhu.edu/books/9781469603070/ ER -