Crucified upon metals and alphabets: alchemical iconography of the sixteenth-century illustrated treatises by Martin Sturtz
This paper addresses the links between alchemy, mining and religion in the early modern alchemical iconography of the German mining theorist Martin Sturtz. He created a special version of the prayer Vaterunser (Our Father) for miners and metallurgists and used the images from Christian and alchemica...
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| Main Author: | Sergei Zotov |
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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Cambridge University Press
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| Series: | BJHS Themes |
| Online Access: | https://www.cambridge.org/core/product/identifier/S2058850X25000025/type/journal_article |
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