Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. Acknowledgments ix
4. 1. Bad Cameralists and Disordered Police States 1
5. 2. Science and Silver for the Kammer 26
6. 3. The Knowledge Factory 49
7. 4. The Cameralist and the Ironworks 81
8. 5. Useless Sciences, Fashionable Sciences 111
9. 6. Conclusion: Don’t Believe Everything You Read 134
10. APPENDIX ONE. Average Annual Silver Production in Central Europe (kg.), 1545–1800 145
11. APPENDIX TWO. Acquisition History of Selected Mining Books in Göttingen 146
12. APPENDIX THREE. Friedrich Casimir Medicus’s Unpublished Proposal for a Faculty of State Administration at the University of Ingolstadt 148
13. Notes 154
14. Bibliography 185
15. Index 219