Managing Mineral Growth in Early Modern Mining
- Autor(en)
- Sebastian Felten
- Abstrakt
This essay explores how the analogy between vegetable, animal, and mineral growth—common in early modern Europe—informed economic thinking. It proceeds by analyzing a scholarly text emerging from Central European mining, the Berg-Chronica of the Saxon court historiographer Petrus Albinus, within two contexts: natural philosophy (both learned and vernacular) and the management of mines. The provision of precious and useful metals by Nature/God was thought to occur slowly. Taking a long view on mineral provision was fostered by the increasingly bureaucratic management of mines in Central Europe.
- Organisation(en)
- Institut für Geschichte
- Journal
- Isis
- Band
- 114
- Seiten
- 626-630
- Anzahl der Seiten
- 5
- ISSN
- 0021-1753
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.1086/726184
- Publikationsdatum
- 09-2023
- Peer-reviewed
- Ja
- ÖFOS 2012
- 603123 Wissenschaftsgeschichte
- ASJC Scopus Sachgebiete
- History, Earth and Planetary Sciences (miscellaneous), History and Philosophy of Science
- Link zum Portal
- https://ucris.univie.ac.at/portal/de/publications/managing-mineral-growth-in-early-modern-mining(7c35c07c-473c-4c86-bb32-bea849984e77).html