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Genre/Form: | Biography Biographies History |
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Named Person: | John Winthrop; John Winthrop; John Winthrop; John Winthrop; John Winthrop; John (Kolonisator Winthrop |
Material Type: | Biography, Internet resource |
Document Type: | Book, Internet Resource |
All Authors / Contributors: |
Walter William Woodward; Omohundro Institute of Early American History & Culture. |
ISBN: | 9780807833018 0807833010 9781469600871 1469600870 |
OCLC Number: | 435728500 |
Description: | viii, 317 pages : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm |
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. |
Responsibility: | Walter W. Woodward. |
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Abstract:
Examines the transfer of alchemical culture to America by one of English colonization's early giants, John Winthrop, Jr. Winthrop participated in a pan-European network of natural philosophers who believed alchemy could improve the human condition and hasten Christ's Second Coming.
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