Divining Science - Treasure Hunting and Earth Science in Early Modern Germany

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.

About the author

Warren Alexander Dym, Ph.D. (2005) in History, University of California, Davis, is presently visiting assistant professor at University of Miami. He publishes on German mining and earth science history.

Product details

• Authors: Warren Dym
• Publisher: Brill
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 24.09.2010
• EAN: 9789004186422
• ISBN: 978-90-04-18642-2
• No. of pages: 230
• Dimensions: 165 mm x 241 mm x 20 mm
• Weight: 476 g
• Series: Studies in Central European Hi
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > History > Modern era up to 1918