Secrets of nature astrology and alchemy in early modern Europe

Detalles Bibliográficos
Otros Autores: Newman, William R., 1955- (-), Grafton, Anthony
Formato: Libro electrónico
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press 2001.
Colección:EBSCO Academic eBook Collection Complete.
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Acceso en línea:Conectar con la versión electrónica
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Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction: the problematic status of astrology and alchemy in premodern Europe / William R. Newman and Anthony Grafton
  • "Veritatis amor dulcissimus": aspects of Cardano's astrology / Germana Ernst
  • Between the election and my hopes: Girolamo Cardano and medical astrology / Anthony Grafton and Nancy Siraisi
  • Celestial offerings: astrological motifs in the dedicatory letters of Kepler's Astronomia nova and Galileo's Sidereus nuncios / H. Darrel Rutkin
  • Astronomia inferior: legacies of Johanes Trithemius and John Dee / N.H. Clulee
  • The Rosicrucian hoax in France (1623-24) / Didier Kahn
  • "The food of angels": Simon Forman's alchemical medicine / Lauren Kassell
  • Some problems with the historiography of alchemy / Lawrence M. Principe and William R. Newman.