Eighteen Books of the Secrets of Art & Nature
Title | Eighteen Books of the Secrets of Art & Nature PDF eBook |
Author | Johann Jacob Wecker |
Publisher | |
Total Pages | 358 |
Release | 1660 |
Genre | Formulas, recipes, etc |
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Eighteen Books of the Secrets of Art [and] Nature
Title | Eighteen Books of the Secrets of Art [and] Nature PDF eBook |
Author | Johann Jakob Wecker |
Publisher | |
Total Pages | 0 |
Release | 1660 |
Genre | |
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Eighteen Books of the Secrets of Art & Nature
Title | Eighteen Books of the Secrets of Art & Nature PDF eBook |
Author | Johann Jacob Wecker |
Publisher | |
Total Pages | 346 |
Release | 1988 |
Genre | Medicine |
ISBN |
Science and the Secrets of Nature
Title | Science and the Secrets of Nature PDF eBook |
Author | William Eamon |
Publisher | Princeton University Press |
Total Pages | 508 |
Release | 2020-06-30 |
Genre | Science |
ISBN | 0691214611 |
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.
Catalogue of the Library of the Great Seal Patent Office
Title | Catalogue of the Library of the Great Seal Patent Office PDF eBook |
Author | Great Britain. Patent Office. Library |
Publisher | |
Total Pages | 264 |
Release | 1857 |
Genre | Industrial arts |
ISBN |
New Trends in Education in the Eighteenth Century
Title | New Trends in Education in the Eighteenth Century PDF eBook |
Author | Nicholas A Hans |
Publisher | Routledge |
Total Pages | 263 |
Release | 2013-08-21 |
Genre | Social Science |
ISBN | 1136240721 |
This is Volume VII of nine in a collection on Historical Sociology. Originally published in 1951, this is a study of educational institutions and movements, social and economic conditions and developments in a period that is seen as the actual realisation of modern education.
Occult Knowledge, Science, and Gender on the Shakespearean Stage
Title | Occult Knowledge, Science, and Gender on the Shakespearean Stage PDF eBook |
Author | Mary Floyd-Wilson |
Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | 249 |
Release | 2013-07-11 |
Genre | Drama |
ISBN | 1107036321 |
Belief in spirits, demons and the occult was commonplace in the early modern period, as was the view that these forces could be used to manipulate nature and produce new knowledge. In this groundbreaking study, Mary Floyd-Wilson explores these beliefs in relation to women and scientific knowledge, arguing that the early modern English understood their emotions and behavior to be influenced by hidden sympathies and antipathies in the natural world. Focusing on Twelfth Night, Arden of Faversham, A Warning for Fair Women, All's Well That Ends Well, The Changeling and The Duchess of Malfi, she demonstrates how these plays stage questions about whether women have privileged access to nature's secrets and whether their bodies possess hidden occult qualities. Discussing the relationship between scientific discourse and the occult, she goes on to argue that as experiential evidence gained scientific ground, women's presumed intimacy with nature's secrets was either diminished or demonized.