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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| 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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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- CONTENTS
- LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS AND TABLES
- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
- NOTES ON CONVENTIONS AND USAGE
- INTRODUCTION Printing, Popular Culture, and the Scientific Revolution
- PART ONE: THE LITERATURE OF SECRETS
- ONE The Literature of Secrets in the Middle Ages
- TWO Knowledge and Power
- PART TWO: THE SECRETS OF NATURE IN THE AGE OF PRINTING
- THREE Arcana Disclosed
- FOUR The Professors of Secrets and Their Books
- FIVE Leonardo Fioravanti, Vendor of Secrets
- SIX Natural Magic and the Secrets of Nature
- SEVEN The Secrets of Nature in Popular Culture
- PART THREE: THE "NEW PHILOSOPHY"
- EIGHT Science as a Venatio
- NINE The Virtuosi and the Secrets of Nature
- TEN From the Secrets of Nature to Public Knowledge
- Conclusion
- Appendix Secreti Italiani: Italian Booklets of Secrets, ca. 1520-1643
- ABBREVIATIONS
- NOTES
- BIBLIOGRAPHY
- INDEX