An edition of Mining, metallurgy, and the meaning of life: a book of stories (2008)

Mining, metallurgy, and the meaning of life

a book of stories

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An edition of Mining, metallurgy, and the meaning of life: a book of stories (2008)

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Sophia Perennis
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Subjects

Religious aspects, Metallurgy, Metallurgy in literature, Mines and mineral resources, Religious aspects of Metallurgy, Religious aspects of Mines and mineral resources

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Table of Contents

Preface: City of gold
Origins
Mining and the land
Slave mining and the right to work
The classical tradition
Homer's Smith God
Prometheus and Arachne
Plato's theory of craft
The biblical tradition
Greeks, Jews, and Egyptians
Genesis and Exodus
Solomom and Daniel
The New Testament
The medieval synthesis
The sainty patronage of mining and metallurgy
Precious metals in church worship
Christian alchemy
The symbol of the mine
Dragons
Dwarfs
The desacralization of work
The traditional work ethic
The Protestant work ethic
Blake and Wordsworth on work and nature
Epilogue: The nuclear age.

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Originally published: Sydney, Australia : Quakers Hill Press, 1995.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Published in
San Rafael, CA

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Dewey Decimal Class
669
Library of Congress
TN673 .S86 2008

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Pagination
p. cm.

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Open Library
OL16908669M
ISBN 13
9781597310857
LCCN
2008022416
OCLC/WorldCat
231745502
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7313868

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