The alchemy of conquest: science, religion, and the secrets of the New World
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Charlottesville ; London
University of Virginia Press
2019
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Schriftenreihe: | Writing the early Americas
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Abstract: | "This book explores the role that the verbal, conceptual, and visual language of alchemy played in the literature of the conquest of America and in the rise of an early modern paradigm of discovery in both science and international law. While the roots of the modern 'conquistadorial' attitude toward nature lie in late medieval alchemy, which fused Aristotelian reason with Christian apocalypticism in the militant context of crusade and spiritual conquest, this book argues that the modern idea of what it means to discover something has a colonial history in which conquest legitimated the modern (Baconian) idea of discovery by underwriting it with religious messianism and early modern state power. Thus, the book traces the intellectual and spiritual legacies of such late medieval alchemists as Roger Bacon, Arnald of Villanova, and Ramon Llull in the early modern literature of the conquest of America in texts written by authors such as Christopher Columbus, Amerigo Vespucci, José de Acosta, Nicolás Monardes, Walter Raleigh, Thomas Harriot, Francis Bacon, and Alexander von Humboldt"-- |
Umfang: | xvi, 649 Seiten Illustrationen 25 cm |
ISBN: | 9780813942544 9780813942568 |
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title | The alchemy of conquest science, religion, and the secrets of the New World |
title_auth | The alchemy of conquest science, religion, and the secrets of the New World |
title_exact_search | The alchemy of conquest science, religion, and the secrets of the New World |
title_full | The alchemy of conquest science, religion, and the secrets of the New World Ralph Bauer |
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