Court patronage

Concerns courtly patronage and the alchemical theory and practice of the 17th-century court alchemist Conrad Schuler... 

Roper, Hugh Trevor-. Princes and artists. Patronage and ideology of four Habsburg courts. London , 1976. 

P. H. Smith, Curing the body politic chemistry and commerce at court 1664-70 , in Patronage Institutions Science, Technology and Medicine at the European Court, 1500-1750, ed. B. T. Moran, Boydell Press, Rochester, NY, 1991, pp. 195-209. 

Pamela H. Smith, The Business of Alchemy Science and Culture in the Holy Roman Empire (Princeton, N.J. Princeton University Press, 1994), "Alchemy as a Language of Mediation," "Consumption and Credit The Place of Alchemy in Johann Joachim Becher s Political Economy," in Alchemy Revisited, ed. Z. R. W. M. von Martels (Leiden Brill, 1990), 215-21, and "Curing the Body Politic Chemistry and Commerce at Court, 1664-70," in Patronage and Institutions Science, Technology, and Medicine at the European Court, i oo ij o, ed. Bruce T. Moran (Rochester, N.Y. Boydell Press, 1991), 195-209. 

Within the University of Edinburgh, Hirst played an extremely full part in its committee work. From 1959 to 1962, he served as Dean of the Faculty of Science, and, in 1963, was elected to the University Court— the most senior body, with financial and legal responsibilities for the administration ofthe University. He continued to be a member of Court from 1965, when he became one of the Curators of Patronage (a combined committee of the University and the City of Edinburgh having particular responsibilities towards appointments to certain chairs), until his retirement. 

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