Science and the Secrets of Nature : : Books of Secrets in Medieval and Early Modern Culture /

Science and the Secrets of Nature : : Books of Secrets in Medieval and Early Modern Culture / / William Eamon.

By explaining how to sire multicolored horses, produce nuts without shells, and create an egg the size of a human head, Giambattista Della Porta's Natural Magic (1559) conveys a fascination with tricks and illusions that makes it a work difficult for historians of science to take seriously. Yet...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Princeton University Press eBook-Package Archive 1927-1999
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Eamon, William,
Place / Publishing House:Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2021]
©1994
Year of Publication:2021
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (512 p.) :; 12 halftones. 3 tables
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505 0 0 |t Frontmatter --   |t CONTENTS --   |t LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS AND TABLES --   |t ACKNOWLEDGMENTS --   |t NOTES ON CONVENTIONS AND USAGE --   |t INTRODUCTION Printing, Popular Culture, and the Scientific Revolution --   |t PART ONE: THE LITERATURE OF SECRETS --   |t ONE The Literature of Secrets in the Middle Ages --   |t TWO Knowledge and Power --   |t PART TWO: THE SECRETS OF NATURE IN THE AGE OF PRINTING --   |t THREE Arcana Disclosed --   |t FOUR The Professors of Secrets and Their Books --   |t FIVE Leonardo Fioravanti, Vendor of Secrets --   |t SIX Natural Magic and the Secrets of Nature --   |t SEVEN The Secrets of Nature in Popular Culture --   |t PART THREE: THE "NEW PHILOSOPHY" --   |t EIGHT Science as a Venatio --   |t NINE The Virtuosi and the Secrets of Nature --   |t TEN From the Secrets of Nature to Public Knowledge --   |t Conclusion --   |t Appendix Secreti Italiani: Italian Booklets of Secrets, ca. 1520-1643 --   |t ABBREVIATIONS --   |t NOTES --   |t BIBLIOGRAPHY --   |t INDEX 
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