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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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Princeton, NJ :
Princeton University Press,
[2021]
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- 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