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

Eamon, William

 
9780691026022: Science and the Secrets of Nature: Books of Secrets in Medieval and Early Modern Culture
Softcover
ISBN 10: 0691026025 ISBN 13: 9780691026022
Verlag: Princeton University Press, 1996

Inhaltsangabe

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, according to William Eamon, it is in the "how-to" books written by medieval alchemists, magicians, and artisans that modern science has its roots. These compilations of recipes on everything from parlor tricks through medical remedies to wool-dyeing fascinated medieval intellectuals because they promised access to esoteric "secrets of nature." In closely examining this rich but little-known source of literature, Eamon reveals that printing technology and popular culture had as great, if not stronger, an impact on early modern science as did the traditional academic disciplines.

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William Eamon is Professor of History at New Mexico State University.

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'Eamon gives a rich and lively account of authors and writings that were always unacademic, unscrupulous, unprofessional, turbulent, and unsettled; that is to say, an account of the popular or seamy side of medicine and natural knowledge in medieval and early modern times....A book of many unusual topic....Eamon is very learned and writes eloquently.' A.Rupert Hall, Nature

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Verlag
Princeton University Press
Erscheinungsdatum
1996
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
0691026025
ISBN 13 
9780691026022
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Taschenbuch
Anzahl der Seiten
512
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