Dotkni sa histórie: Hľadači pokladov, alchymisti a slovenčina v novoveku

Thanks to its mineral resources, Slovakia has become the subject of interest of the Roman Empire. Few people today know that the "golden fever" has found its statement in the Slovak language since the mid -16th century. The first sciences associated with the search and processing of precious metals - metallurgy, physics, chemistry, etc. began to develop in the Slovak language.
In the state of current research, it turns out that Slovakia was literally an alchemical superpower in the 16th - 18th centuries. It also corresponds directly to the number of Slovak alchemical texts. However, the development of the precious metals in today's Slovakia is also related to the development of the Slovak written local history and cartography, the so -called “seizure manuals”. Since, in addition to a detailed description of a particular country associated with the necessary knowledge of local geography and topography, they also contain various literary, religious and ritual texts associated with folk piety, this genre was called the term "earth keys".

Lecturer Martin Homza from the Department of Slovak History of Comenius University in Bratislava.