Science and the Secrets of Nature: Books of Secrets in Medieval and Early Modern CulturePrinceton University Press, 2 jun 1996 - 490 pagina's 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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Inhoudsopgave
Printing Popular Culture and the Sc | 3 |
THE LITERATURE OF SECRETS | 13 |
The Literature of Secrets in the Middle Ages | 15 |
Knowledge and Power | 38 |
THE SECRETS OF NATURE IN THE AGE OF PRINTING | 91 |
Arcana Disclosed | 93 |
The Professor of Secrets and Their Books | 134 |
Leonardo Fioravanti Vendor of Secrets | 168 |
Science as a Venatio | 269 |
The Virtuosi and the Secrets of Nature | 301 |
From the Secrets of Nature of Public Knowledge | 319 |
CONCLUSION | 351 |
Secreti Italian Italian Booklets of Secrets ca 15201643 | 361 |
367 | |
NOTES | 369 |
431 | |
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