Video: Alchemy & Capitalism, Mining and the State

[Paul Ferguson]

'With the social and economic changes that occurred in the centuries following the Black Death, the alchemists of Central Europe became increasingly professionalized even contracted experts in the fields of medicine and mining.  These "Entrepreneurial Alchemists" stood at the crossroads of the medieval world and modern capitalism, the state, industrial mining and heavy industry.'


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wAGwEKA3C2A