Managing Mineral Growth in Early Modern Mining

IF 1 2区哲学 Q2 HISTORY & PHILOSOPHY OF SCIENCE

Isis Pub Date : 2023-09-01 DOI:10.1086/726184

Sebastian Felten

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Abstract

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.

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管理早期现代采矿中的矿物增长

这篇文章探讨了植物、动物和矿物生长之间的类比——在早期现代欧洲很常见——是如何影响经济思维的。本书首先分析了一篇来自中欧采矿业的学术文本，即撒克逊宫廷历史学家彼得鲁斯·阿尔比努斯的伯格编年史，在两种背景下进行:自然哲学(包括学术和方言)和矿山管理。大自然/上帝提供珍贵和有用的金属被认为是缓慢发生的。中欧日益官僚化的矿山管理助长了对矿物供应的长远看法。

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Isis 管理科学-科学史与科学哲学

CiteScore

1.00

自引率

16.70%

发文量

150

审稿时长

>12 weeks

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