Ebook: Divining Science : Treasure Hunting and Earth Science in Early Modern Germany
Author: Warren Dym
- Tags: HIS010000
- Series: Studies in Central European Histories Ser.
- Year: 2010
- Publisher: BRILL
- City: Boston, United States
- Edition: 1
- Language: English
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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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