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02930aam a2200445 i 4500 001 C5142C5A586511EA978CCE3397128E48 003 SILO 005 20200226010029 008 181106t20192019vaua b 001 0 eng 010 $a 2018048205 020 $a 081394256X 020 $a 9780813942568 020 $a 0813942543 020 $a 9780813942544 035 $a (OCoLC)1079409593 040 $a DLC $b eng $e rda $c DLC $d OCLCF $d YDX $d BDX $d VA@ $d YDX $d SILO 042 $a pcc 043 $a s------ $a s------ 050 00 $a E141 $b .B25 2019 082 00 $a 970.01 $2 23 100 1 $a Bauer, Ralph, $d 1965- $e author. 245 14 $a The alchemy of conquest : $b science, religion, and the secrets of the New World / $c Ralph Bauer. 264 1 $a Charlottesville : $b University of Virginia Press, $c 2019. 300 $a xvi, 649 pages : $b illustrations ; $c 25 cm. 490 1 $a Writing the early Americas 504 $a Includes bibliographical references and index. 520 $a "This book explores the role that the verbal, conceptual, and visual language of alchemy played in the literature of the conquest of America and in the rise of an early modern paradigm of discovery in both science and international law. While the roots of the modern 'conquistadorial' attitude toward nature lie in late medieval alchemy, which fused Aristotelian reason with Christian apocalypticism in the militant context of crusade and spiritual conquest, this book argues that the modern idea of what it means to discover something has a colonial history in which conquest legitimated the modern (Baconian) idea of discovery by underwriting it with religious messianism and early modern state power. Thus, the book traces the intellectual and spiritual legacies of such late medieval alchemists as Roger Bacon, Arnald of Villanova, and Ramon Llull in the early modern literature of the conquest of America in texts written by authors such as Christopher Columbus, Amerigo Vespucci, Jose de Acosta, Nicolas Monardes, Walter Raleigh, Thomas Harriot, Francis Bacon, and Alexander von Humboldt"-- $c Provided by publisher. 651 0 $a America $v Early accounts to 1600 $x History and criticism. 650 0 $a Alchemy $x History and criticism. $x History and criticism. 651 0 $a America $x Discovery and exploration. 650 7 $a Alchemy. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst00804245 650 7 $a Discoveries in geography. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst00894950 651 7 $a America. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01239786 655 7 $a Criticism, interpretation, etc. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01411635 655 7 $a Early works. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01411636 776 08 $i Online version: $a Bauer, Ralph, 1965- author. $t Alchemy of conquest $d Charlottesville : University of Virginia Press, 2019 $z 9780813942551 $w (DLC) 2018059506 830 0 $a Writing the early Americas. 941 $a 1 952 $l OVUX522 $d 20220317023814.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=C5142C5A586511EA978CCE3397128E48Initiate Another SILO Locator Search