Science and the Secrets of Nature: Books of Secrets in Medieval and Early Modern Culture 豆 0.0分

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作者：William Eamon

出版社：Princeton University Press

出版日期：1996-01

ISBN：9780691026022

文件格式： pdf

标签： 科学史 自然魔法 科技史 EarlyModern 早期现代 STS EarlyModernEurope 蒙田

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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 alche...