Book ID: CBB000201615

Secrets of Nature: Astrology and Alchemy in Early Modern Europe (2001)

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Newman, William Royall (Author)
Grafton, Anthony T. (Author)


The MIT Press

ISBN: 262140756

Publication Date: 2001
Physical Details: 443 pp., illus., bibl., index
Language: English

Description Contents: William R. *Newman, Anthony *Grafton, The Problematic Status of Astrology and Alchemy in Premodern Europe; Germana *Ernst, “Veritatis amor dulcissimus”: Aspects of Cardano's Astrology; Anthony *Grafton, Nancy *Siraisi, Between the Election and my Hopes: Girolamo Cardano and Medical Astrology; Rutkin, H. Darrel, Celestial Offerings: Astrological Motifs in the Dedicatory Letters of Kepler's Astronomia nova and Galileo's Sidereus nuncios; N. H. *Clulee, Astronomia inferior: Legacies of Johanes Trithemius and John Dee; Didier *Kahn, The Rosicrucian Hoax in France (1623--24); Lauren *Kassell, “The Food of Angels”: Simon Forman's Alchemical Medicine; Lawrence M. *Principe, William R. *Newman, Some Problems with the Historiography of Alchemy.


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Authors & Contributors
Boner, Patrick J.
Kepler, Johannes
Roudet, Nicolas
Boockmann, Friederike
Greenbaum, Dorian Gieseler
Westman, Robert S.
Concepts
Astrology
Physics
Mathematics
Astronomy
Alchemy
Soul (philosophy)
Time Periods
17th century
16th century
Renaissance
Early modern
Places
Italy
Prague (Czechia)
Florence (Italy)
Europe
Austria
Tuscany (Italy)
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