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Science and the Secrets of Nature: Books of Secrets in Medieval and Early Modern Culture Paperback – 13 May 1996

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  • Paperback : 512 pages
  • ISBN-10 : 9780691026022
  • ISBN-13 : 978-0691026022
  • Dimensions : 15.88 x 2.95 x 23.5 cm
  • Publisher : Princeton University Press; New Ed edition (13 May 1996)
  • Language: : English
  • ASIN : 0691026025
  • Customer reviews:
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Eamon ... provide[s] plenty of material for thought in this multifaceted volume.---Charles Burnett, The New York Times Book Review

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 topics.... Eamon is very learned and writes eloquently.---A. Rupert Hall, Nature

Unusually well crafted. . . . Eamon has many valuable things to say about science as a sacrament.---John North, The Times Literary Supplement

Winner of the 1994 Award for Best Professional/Scholarly Book in History, Association of American Publishers

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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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