Indexes/Smith, The Business of Alchemy (1994)

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Indexes/Smith, The Business of Alchemy (1994)

Agricola, Rudolph : 35
Alsted, Johann Heinrich : 30, 34
Althusius, Johannes : 42, 123
Amalie Elisabeth (landgravine of Hessen-Kassel) : 144
Amsterdam : 146-61
Andreae, Johann Valentin : 30, 37, 228n
Anhalt-Dessau : 143
Aristotle : 37n, 46, 64, 120n, 206, 208-9, 217n; and organization of knowledge, 47- 48; political thought of, 42-43, 122
Bacon, Francis : 31, 37, 39, 228n, 265
Becher, Joachim : 29-30
Bernini, Gian Lorenzo : 267-69
Besoldus, Christoph : 69n
Boccalini, Trajano : 45-47, 49
Bodin, Jean : 42, 123
Boë (Sylvius), Francis de la : 208n
Boeckler, Johann : 41n, 43
Boehme, Jacob : 31, 39, 40
Boineburg, Christian von : 59, 60n, 81n, 131-32, 145n, 146n
Boschart, Samuel : 41n
Boyle, Robert : 38, 61, 62, 74, 259, 269, 277n
Brand, Henning : 18, 248-51, 255
Brand, Margaretha : 251
Breslau : 51, 52
Buno, Johannes : 51n, 83
Cain, Abraham : 151, 156
Calderón de la Barca, Pedro : 266
Campanella, Tommaso : 228n
Cardano, Jerome : 70n, 120n
Charlemagne : 95
Charles II (king of England) : 144, 159, 259
Charles V (emperor) : 126
Christina (queen of Sweden) : 41, 51, 145n
Cicero : 42, 69n, 262
Comenius, Jan Amos : 11, 30, 31, 34, 39, 86n, 145n, 276; on commerce, 32; and pedagogy, 31, 82n, 83-84; and perpetual motion, 38
Conring, Hermann : 42, 69n
Court, Jan and Pieter de la : 123-26
Crafft, Johann Daniel : 75, 114, 117n, 151n, 184, 247, 251, 268; and Leibniz, 248-62
Descartes, René : 11, 41n, 51
Dickinson, Edmund : 258, 277n
Doppelmayr, Johann Gabriel : 36
Dury, John : 38
Dutch Republic : 10, 126, 141, 147-50
Elers, Martin : 113-14, 117, 151n, 166n, 253n
Elizabeth I (queen of England) : 211-12
Elsevier, Daniel : 253
Erasmus, Desiderius : 30
Evelyn, John : 38
Ferdinand III (emperor) : 17, 57, 145, 149, 178, 179, 181n
Ferdinand Maria (elector) : 17, 94-106, 108, 115-16, 119, 138, 151, 166n, 200-201, 266n
Foucault, Michel : 10, 270n
Frederick V (elector Palatine and king of Bohemia) : 95
Freinsheim, Johann : 41n, 43
Friedrich Casimir (count of Hanau) : 18, 118, 138, 141-72, 252, 263
Fugger : 126n
Fürstenberg, Dietrich Kaspar von : 70
Fürstenberg, Herman Egon von : 74, 108, 109n, 112, 114n
Galenus, Abrahamsz. : 136n, 161, 249
Gardie, Magnus Gabriel de la : 51
Gauss, Anna Margaretha : 24
Georg Christian (landgrave of Hessen-Homburg) : 141n, 144-45, 162-63, 164n
Glauber, Johann Rudolf : 20n, 73, 74, 76n, 136n
Graevius, Johann Georg : 253
Gryphius, Andreas : 268n
Guericke, Otto von : 59n
Gustav Adolf (duke of Mecklenburg-Güstrow) : 18, 250-51
Hanau : 143
Hartlib, Samuel : 11, 31, 38, 59-63, 190n
Harvey, Gabriel : 44
Heinrich Julius (duke of Brunswick) : 43n, 44
Heinsius, Nicolas : 41n
Helmont, Joan Baptista van : 206
Hemoni, François : 73n
Henriette Adelheid (electoress of Bavaria) : 95, 104, 151
Heraclitus : 37, 217n
Hermann von Baden (margrave) : 256-57
Hermes : 50, 173, 201, 207n, 208, 219, 221, 226
Hessen-Darmstadt : 144
Hessen-Homburg : 144-45
Hessen-Kassel : 144, 163
Hobbes, Thomas : 42, 125n
Holland : 111, 117, 124, 127, 186, 272; Becher’s trips to, 73-74, 78n, 117, 133-40, 141-72; in comparison to Spain, 147-50
Hooke, Robert : 259n
Hörnigk, Ludwig von : 17, 68
Hörnigk, Maria Veronika von : 17, 68-69, 151
Hörnigk, Philipp Wilhelm von : 18, 20n, 69n, 188, 211n, 249, 256-57
Huygens, Christiaan : 254
Johann Friedrich (duke of Hanover) : 248, 250-51
Johann Kasimir (king of Poland) : 132
Johann Philipp von Schönborn (archbishop-elector of Mainz) : 17, 18, 59, 63, 73, 77, 138, 181n, 252
Karl Ludwig (elector Palatine) : 71, 95
Kunckel, Johann : 20n, 249
Lavoisier, Antoine : 19
Lefebvre, Nicolas : 208
Leibniz, Gottfried Wilhelm : 9, 14, 18, 60n, 69n, 89, 131-32, 146n, 161, 184, 222n, 268; and alchemy, 190n, 252-53; and Be¬cher, 247-62; and imperial court, 255-58
Leopold I (emperor) : 18, 77, 78, 104, 164n, 177-82, 187, 258, 266n; and alchemy, 179-82, 185, 189, 198-99; and credit, 133-40,252
Lipsius, Justus : 41, 42
Louis XIV (king of France) : 44, 104, 147, 177
Ludwig IV (emperor) : 95
Lull, Raymond: memory scheme of : 64n, 87
Luther, Martin : 30
Machiavelli, Niccolò : 42, 260n
Macquer, Pierre-Joseph : 239
Margarita Teresa (empress) : 72n, 266n
Marsaly, Daniel : 181n, 185n, 187n, 209, 215, 243-44
Maximilian (duke and elector of Bavaria) : 95-100, 102, 119
Maximilian II Emmanuel (elector of Bavaria) : 97
Meibom, Heinric : 41n
Melanchthon, Philipp : 30, 35
Mersenne, Marin : 41n, 51
N. (anonymous alchemist) : 183-84, 221, 235
Naudé, Gabriel : 41n
Neuberger, Daniel : 57-58, 131, 145-46, 148-49
Nuremberg : 35, 36, 101, 126-27
Obrecht, Georg : 126n, 130n
Oexl, Johann Georg : 98n
Oldenburg, Henry : 38, 222n; and Becher, 59- 63
Orange, House of : 124, 143n, 159
Ottoman Empire : 177, 186
Palingenius, Marcellus : 52-54, 245
Paracelsus : 12, 39, 41, 44, 45, 50, 52, 66, 86, 199, 206, 216, 244, 276; doctrine of signatures of, 31 ; and manual labor, 40; on relationship of scientia and experientia, 79-80
Partington, J. R. : 12
Petty, William : 38, 62
Pfalz-Zweibrücken-Birkenfeld : 143
Philip II (king of Spain) : 182n
Philipp Wilhelm von Neuburg (count Pal¬atine) : 131-32
Philipp, Christian : 253-55
Plato : 229n
Poland : 177; election in, 131-33
Pufendorf, Samuel : 89, 99
Quercetanus, Josephus (Joseph du Chesne) : 206n
Ramus, Petrus : 30, 34-35, 39, 82n
Renaudot, Théophraste : 190n
Reußner, Andreas : 51
Richthausen, Conrad von (Baron von Chaos) : 181n
Rojas y Spinola, Christobal (bishop) : 253, 258
Rolfìnck, Guerner : 201n
Rudolf II (emperor) : 179, 198
Rupert (count Palatine) : 18, 77, 259, 261, 275, 277n
Salmasius, Claudius : 41n, 43
Saltzthal, Solinus (Becher) : 16, 41, 202
Scaliger, Julius Caesar : 70n
Scheffer, Johann : 41n, 43
Schellenberg, Wolfgang Ferdinand Freiherr von : 185n, 187n
Schmid, Caspar von : 98, 101, 109-11, 127
Schröder, Wilhelm von : 20n, 76n, 164n, 189n, 253n, 258
Seckendorff, Veit Ludwig von : 126n
Seiler, Wenceslas : 180-82, 187n
Seneca : 42, 44, 260
Sinzendorf, Georg Ludwig : 17, 108, 109n, 137-40, 178, 183-89, 192, 260
Skytte, Bengt : 76n, 145-46, 162-63, 247
Solomon : 12, 201; as alchemist, 224
Spain: etiquette of court in : 95; perceived decline of, 147-50; war with Dutch, 155
Speyer : 24, 28, 33
Stahl, Emmerich : 77
Stahl, Georg Ernst : 19, 20-21
Stocklöw, Gottfried : 52
Sturm, Johann Christoph : 39n
Sybille Christine (countess of Hanau) : 143
Tachenius, Otto : 222n
Tacitus : 42; style of, 263
Telgens, Isaac : 137-40, 155
Vega, Joseph de la : 267n
Vives, Juan Luis : 30, 37
Wallis, John : 35
Weigel, Erhard : 89-90, 225, 260
Wilkins, John : 36, 217n
William III (Stadtholder-General) : 147
Witt, Jan de : 124, 147
Xenophon : 229n
Zesen, Philipp von : 147, 150n, 219n
Zincke, Georg Heinrich : 20-21
Zinzendorf, Albrecht von : 191, 193
Zunner, Johann David : 253