Disknowledge : literature, alchemy, and the end of humanism in Renaissance England / by Eggert, Katherine

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Spectacular science, technology and superstition in the age of Shakespeare /

Table of Contents: “…Saving perfection from the alchemists : Shakespeare's use of alchemy /…”
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The body of the artisan : art and experience in the scientific revolution / by Smith, Pamela H., 1957-

Table of Contents: “…Flanders -- Artisanal world -- South German cities -- Artisanal epistemology -- Body of the artisan -- Artisanship, alchemy, and a vernacular science of matter -- Dutch republic -- Legacy of Paracelsus: practitioners and new philosophers -- Institutionalization of the new philosophy -- Conclusion: toward a history of vernacular science.…”
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Desires of credit in early modern theory and drama : commerce, poesy, and the profitable imagination / by Sheerin, Brian

Table of Contents: “…The profitable imagination: poesy, coinage, and the hermeneutic circles of Marlowe's Doctor Faustus -- The Jewish economies of Renaissance reading: putting Shylock to good use in Shakespeare's The Merchant of Venice -- Good credit and the maintenance of desire in Heywood's Apology for actors and If you know not me, you know nobody, part II -- Imaginative alchemy and the face of the sovereign: locating value in Dekker's Old Fortunatus -- Banking and the allure of belief: bad credit in Jonson's Volpone.…”