Book ID: CBB001021212

The Professor of Secrets: Mystery, Medicine, and Alchemy in Renaissance Italy (2010)

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Eamon, William C. (Author)


National Geographic Society


Publication Date: 2010
Physical Details: 368 pp.; ill.; bibl.; index
Language: English

Description On the life of the medical doctor Leonardo Fioravanti.


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Review Duffin, Jacalyn (2011) Review of "The Professor of Secrets: Mystery, Medicine, and Alchemy in Renaissance Italy". Isis: International Review Devoted to the History of Science and Its Cultural Influences. unapi

Review Klestinec, Cynthia (2011) Review of "The Professor of Secrets: Mystery, Medicine, and Alchemy in Renaissance Italy". Renaissance Quarterly (p. 929). unapi

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Authors & Contributors
Penman, Leigh T. I.
Eamon, William C.
Buscaroli, Giulia
Lotti, Francesca
Baldassarri, Fabrizio
Cevolani, Enrico
Journals
Early Science and Medicine: A Journal for the Study of Science, Technology and Medicine in the Pre-modern Period
Bruniana & Campanelliana: Ricerche Filosofiche e Materiali Storico-testuali
Atti e Memorie, Rivista di Storia della Farmacia
Sudhoffs Archiv: Zeitschrift fuer Wissenschaftsgeschichte
Renaissance Quarterly
Ambix: Journal of the Society for the History of Alchemy and Chemistry
Publishers
Yale University Press
Walter de Gruyter
University of Rochester Press
SISMEL edizioni del Galluzzo
Heinemann
Harvard University Press
Concepts
Medicine
Alchemy
Physicians; doctors
Pharmacy
Apothecaries
Natural philosophy
People
Paracelsus, Theophrast von Hohenheim
Walther, Balthasar
Fioravanti, Leonardo
Puccinelli, Alessandro
Böhme, Jakob
Sforza, Caterina
Time Periods
Renaissance
16th century
17th century
15th century
18th century
Early modern
Places
Italy
Europe
Basel (Switzerland)
England
Peru
Bologna (Italy)
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