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Author Woodward, Walter William, author.

Title Prospero's America : John Winthrop, Jr., alchemy, and the creation of New England culture, 1606-1676 / Walter W. Woodward
Published Chapel Hill : Published for the Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture by the University of North Carolina Press, 2010
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Description 1 online resource (viii, 317 pages) : illustrations, maps
Series Published for the Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture, Williamsburg, Virginia
Published for the Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture, Williamsburg, Virginia
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
Summary John Winthrop, Jr. participated in a pan-European network of natural philosophers who believed alchemy could improve the human condition and hasten Christ's Second Coming. Walter Woodward demonstrates how Winthrop and his philosophy influenced New England's cultural formation: its settlement, economy, religious toleration, Pequot Indian relations, medical practice, witchcraft prosecution, and imperial diplomacy. Prospero's America reconceptualizes the significance of early modern science in shaping New England hand in hand with Puritanism and politics
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes English
Subject Winthrop, John, 1606-1676.
SUBJECT Winthrop, John, 1606-1676
Winthrop, John, 1606-1676
Winthrop, John, 1606-1676 fast
Winthrop, John 1606-1676 gnd
Winthrop, John, 1606-1676. idsbb
Winthrop, John (Kolonisator, 1606-1676) swd
Subject Alchemists -- New England -- Biography
Alchemy -- New England -- History -- 17th century
Alchemy.
Celebrities.
Alchemy
Famous Persons
History, Modern 1601-
alchemy.
HISTORY -- United States -- Colonial Period (1600-1775)
Celebrities
Alchemists
Alchemy
Naturphilosophie
Alchemie
Geheimwissenschaft
Okkultismus
Alchemie -- Neuengland -- Geschichte 17. Jh.
SUBJECT New England. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85091260
New England
Subject New England
Neuengland
Genre/Form Biographies
History
Biographies.
Biographies.
Form Electronic book
Author Omohundro Institute of Early American History & Culture.
LC no. 2009033899
ISBN 9781469603070
1469603071
9780807895931
0807895938