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