Science and the Secrets of Nature: Books of Secrets in Medieval and Early Modern Culture
by William Eamon
- Used
- very good
- Paperback
- Condition
- Very Good/None
- ISBN 10
- 0691026025
- ISBN 13
- 9780691026022
- Seller
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About This Item
Princeton NJ: Princeton University Press, 1996. reprint. Softcover. Very Good/None. Softcover, pictorial wraps, 490 pages. 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. Clean copy. Record # 374329
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- Bookseller
- Browsing Is Arousing (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 374329
- Title
- Science and the Secrets of Nature: Books of Secrets in Medieval and Early Modern Culture
- Author
- William Eamon
- Format/Binding
- Softcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- None
- Edition
- reprint
- Binding
- Paperback
- ISBN 10
- 0691026025
- ISBN 13
- 9780691026022
- Publisher
- Princeton University Press
- Place of Publication
- Princeton NJ
- Date Published
- 1996
- Keywords
- Sciences, History, , .
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- Reprint
- Any printing of a book which follows the original edition. By definition, a reprint is not a first edition.
- Pictorial Wraps
- Pictorial wraps are color illustrated covers for paperback books. Preceding mass-market paperbacks, this format brought popular...