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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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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