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SUMMARY:Contracting the philosopher’s stone: fraud\, risk and profit in 
 early modern alchemy - Tara Nummedal (Brown University)
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CONTACT:Lauren Kassell
DESCRIPTION:For the princes who sought to hire alchemists\, build laborato
 ries\, and fund substantial alchemical operations in the early modern Holy
  Roman Empire\, the question of fraud was crucial. The possibility of hiri
 ng a false alchemist rather than a real one haunted princely desires to pu
 t alchemy into practice\, yet patrons had few obvious resources for determ
 ining whether or not an individual was a fraud (or Betrüger). In this pap
 er\, I will examine the methods alchemical patrons and practitioners devis
 ed to minimize risk\, as well as the consequences of those methods for the
  practice and meaning of alchemy in early modern central Europe.
LOCATION:Seminar Room 2\, History and Philosophy of Science\, Department o
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