Divining Science: Treasure Hunting and Earth Science in Early Modern Germany (Studies in Central European Histories) - Hardcover

Dym, Warren

 
9789004186422: Divining Science: Treasure Hunting and Earth Science in Early Modern Germany (Studies in Central European Histories)
Hardcover
ISBN 10: 9004186425 ISBN 13: 9789004186422
Verlag: BRILL ACADEMIC PUB, 2010

Inhaltsangabe

The study of German mining and metallurgy has focused overwhelmingly on labor, capitalism, and progressive engineering and earth science. This book addresses prospecting practices and mining culture. Using the divining, or dowsing rod as a means of exposing miner beliefs, it argues that a robust vernacular science preceded institutionalized geology in Saxony, and that the Freiberg Mining Academy (f.1765) became a site for the synthesis of tradition and new science. The tacit knowledge of dowsing was the mark of the experienced prospector, and rather than decline in importance through the Enlightenment, the practice transformed from a study of mineral vapors into an experimental branch of geophysics. Mining administrations openly hired practitioners through the eighteenth century.

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Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

Warren Alexander Dym, Ph.D. (2005) in History, University of California, Davis, is presently visiting assistant professor at University of Miami. He publishes on German mining and earth science history.

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Verlag
BRILL ACADEMIC PUB
Erscheinungsdatum
2010
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
9004186425
ISBN 13 
9789004186422
Einband
Gebundene Ausgabe
Anzahl der Seiten
216
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