Divining science : treasure hunting and earth science in early modern Germany /

Divining science : treasure hunting and earth science in early modern Germany / by Warren Alexander Dym.

The patronage of dowsers by mining administrations through the eighteenth century challenges common assumptions about the Enlightenment. Rather than decline in importance like alchemy and astrology, dowsing transformed from a study of mineral vapors into an experimental branch of geophysics.

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Main Author: Dym, Warren Alexander
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2011.
Series:Studies in Central European histories ; v. 52.
Subjects:
1700-1799
Metallurgy > Germany > Saxony > History > 18th century.
Dowsing > Germany > Saxony > History > 18th century.
Geochemical prospecting > Germany > Saxony > History > 18th century.
Geophysics > Germany > Saxony > History > 18th century.
Dowsing
Geochemical prospecting
Geophysics
Metallurgy
Germany > Saxony
History

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