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Prospero's America : John Winthrop, Jr., alchemy, and the creation of New England culture, 1606-1676 / Walter W. Woodward.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Woodward, Walter William, author.
- Series:
- Published for the Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture, Williamsburg, Virginia
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Alchemists--New England--Biography.
- Alchemists.
- Alchemy--New England--History--17th century.
- Alchemy.
- Winthrop, John, 1606-1676.
- Winthrop, John.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (332 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Chapel Hill, North Carolina : The University of North Carolina Press, 2010.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Woodward examines the transfer of alchemical culture to America by John Winthrop, Jr., an English colonist and part of a a pan-European network of natural philosophers who believed alchemy could improve the human condition and hasten Christ's Second Coming. The book demonstrates Winthrop's effect on New England's cultural formation: its settlement, economy, religious toleration, Indian relations, medical practice, witchcraft prosecution, and imperial diplomacy. It reconceptualizes the significance of early modern science in shaping New England hand in hand with Puritanism and politics.
- 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 1660's
- "Matters of present utility:" John Winthrop, Jr., the Royal Society, and the politics of intelligence in restoration New England.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Includes index.
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 979-88-908778-9-5
- 0-8078-9593-8
- 1-4696-0307-1
- OCLC:
- 824144712
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